Teaching and Learning Projects led by Group members include · PREPOL: Developing a pre-entry and initial guidance package for the study of Politics and International Relations: aims to improve pre-entry and initial guidance to prospective Politics and IR students. A key project output is the Politics and You website.
· Scholarship of Engagement for Politics: aims to give students experience of the practice of politics through the provision of placements.
· Teaching Citizenship in Higher Education: aims to develop attractive and user-friendly teaching and learning activities to promote reflection amongst politics students on the nature of citizenship.
· Research Training Consortium: aims to deliver a high quality research training program to postgraduates using an interactive multi-media package.
· Case Based Learning in Politics: aims to develop problem-based case studies for use in politics
· Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Politics: Short film covering the five FDTL politics projects and the work of the teaching and learning group, launched at the House of Lords in 2008.
· It's Good to Talk: Feedback, Dialogue and Learning: a 2010-2012 project aiming to develop more effective means of providing feedback on assessed work to students of Politics and IR
| Other Groups and Organisations
· BLT: The BISA Learning and Teaching Working Group
· C-SAP: Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics.
· PSAI Teaching and Learning Specialist Group - The teaching and learning group of the Political Studies Association of Ireland.
· American Political Science Association - Teaching and Learning Conference pages.
· ELiSS: Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences - online and free access
· LATISS: Learning and Teaching -The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
· Homepage of Penny Welch - lots of politics teaching and learning resources.
· Social Science and the Higher Skills Agenda - blog by John Craig focusing on employer engagement, employability and Foundation Degrees. |