teaching the dissertation – is there a recipe? christine harlen & mette wiggen polis university of...
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- Teaching the dissertation is there a recipe? Christine Harlen & Mette Wiggen POLIS University of Leeds LTC8
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- What are the guidelines? What is a dissertation?
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- The student experience
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- Staff experience
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- Yes we can !
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- Need to Avoid Getting Meaner as Things Get Leaner Photographer: Matt Dinnery, Fund Our Future: Stop the Cuts National Demonstration, http://www.flickr.com, Creative Commons Licencehttp://www.flickr.com
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- Inspire Good Behaviour: Stress that it is the Norm Picture: Jsmith, Study, Flickr.com, Generic Non-Derivative Creative Commons License 2.0
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- Keeping Students on Track Have things laid out clearly from end of yr 2. Look at successful models Consult students. Remove truly problematic staff from dissertation. Revamp may take years.
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- Improve Guidance to Students and Staff Consolidated skills training. Clarified roles. Matched staff to student topics. Including study abroad students in the loop.
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- Technology Can Improve Tracking and Help Prevent Lost Students On-line submission (VLE Test, Survey Gizmo) Allocation using excel. N: drive. Mail-merged info. Improved monitoring.
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- Warning Signs: Who Gets Lost No topic at start Redoing. Low year 2 average.
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- Technology Does Not Completely Solve the Numbers Problem
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- Onward and Upward