What impact, if any, does the new reformed A-level have on the mathematical mindset of students? Dr Layal Hakim explains how her students were inspired by a related Incubator project to investigate this important issue. As part of the module ECM3735, lead by Dr Barrie Cooper and Dr Layal Hakim, two groups (out of a…
Read more Mathematics Group Projects on the New A-level Mathematics 2018-2019
The ‘Humanities in a Digital World’ project began in September with the aim of finding out what digital skills Humanities students need to enter the current job market – and to think about how we can provide them here at Exeter. The first stage of the project was data-gathering, which was done with the help…
In this post Dr Sarah Dyer, Director the Education Incubator, reflects on her visit to California to explore innovation in higher education. The Education Incubator has been challenging academics at Exeter to reimagine learning in higher education since its launch in 2017. Our Incubator Fellows have responded by running innovative projects that have the potential…
Read more Reimagine Education Awards – San Francisco, November 2018.
Incubator fellow Joe Francis, Clinical Skills Tutor for the BMBS Medicine programme, reveals his plans to deploy gamification to revolutionise clinical skills pedagogy #EduPLAYtion It’s been an exciting start to this incubator project! We are aiming to investigate playful learning strategies and gamification, using our findings to implement these innovative learning strategies within the Universities BMBS medical…
Read more Playful Learning – a project update from Joe Francis at Truro Knowledge Spa
Incubator Fellow Dr David MacDonald, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, speaks candidly about securing ethics approval and his project’s next steps. The unwitting 'pilot study' It’s been an eventful start to the peer impact project. First of all, trying to convince a cohort of Year 1 BSc. Medical Sciences students to attend additional…
Read more Peer impact – the story so far! by David MacDonald
