Research Activities
The following sections highlight current ALiC research activities at partner institutions.
Quality Enhancement
The Quality Assurance Agency have recently moved away from the
assessment of quality assurance to one of 'Quality Enhancement'. This
work activity aimes to identify and share good practice in how
departments can demonstrate and appropriately measure their progress in
terms of taking forward an enhancement agenda.
Research Informed Learning
A body of research exists that highlights the potential value of
research to student learning. This activity investigates the
potential of research informed learning.
Assessment and Feedback
Taking forward work undertaken for previous ALiC activities surrounding assessment, particularly 'Synoptic Learning and Assessment' and 'Peer and Self-Assessment for Group-Work' this activity will investigate the wider application of the results from previous work, and allows a comparative study and evaluation of results between the partner institutions.
Representations of Practice
Central to ALiC is the facilitation of the adoption of
excellent practice beyond the CETL ALiC consortium. Successful
dissemiantion is difficult. In this activity we investigate
dissemination beyond the traditional dissemination methods, such as
publication and workshops, to other methods including participation in
the Disciplinary Commons activity with a specific focus on how educators
inform their own practice
Communications
Digital consumer durables provide many opportunities to all branches and levels of education. This activity seeks to explore the impact of digital consumer durables on computing, the technical opportunities afforded by commonplace hardware, and the wider debate about the influence of technology.
Project Working
Project work is common to nearly all computing and cognate degrees and represents a unique and distinguishing feature of those degrees. This activity aims to explore ways of further deveoping the project work at all sites.
Student Centred Support
An increasingly diverse student population requires a varied range of support. This activity looks ways of managing the support needed for a diverse student population such as first year exprience while also exploring related issues such as curriculum design.
Employability
In this activity we will consolidate the previous work by ALiC on collaborative cross-site development work between students on our Software Engineering modules at Durham and Newcastle and between multi-disciplinary teams and industrial customers at Leeds Met in order to embed realistic projects and group working opportunities into the CS curriculum.
Conduct and Benefit of Placements
This activity will explore the percieved benefits of placements in industry to the student, the employer and Higher Education. This activity will include the investigation of how to go about evaluating those benefits.
