Background
York St John University is a partner to Leeds Metropolitan University in the Sounds Good project. Simon Sweeney, a National Teaching Fellow and leader of a C4C CETL funded project at York St John called Enabling e-Learning (EEL), is delighted to be involved with Sounds Good and sees it as a useful development of EEL. Dr Angela Goddard, Head of Programme for Language and Linguistics, has already successfully employed audio feedback at York St John but involvement with Sounds Good has extended the use of audio feedback in other areas of the Faculty of Business and Communication, for example in Business Management at Levels 2 and 3 and in MA International Studies. Simon comments:
"Through the EEL Project we had already experimented with electronic feedback using text-based responses from tutors commenting inside electronically submitted assignments. This proved very time-consuming, but the students liked the greater detail of advice they tended to receive. But Audio feedback seems more practical, for a start because it takes less time and in fact it seems to bring some specific advantages that we will eventually report to the Sounds Good project. For the time being our experience bears out the benefits that Bob Rotheram mentioned when he visited York to introduce the project last year."
Team
Here are some of the York St John University team who worked on Sounds Good.
| Simon Sweeney
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Simon Sweeney is Head of Programme MA International Studies at York St John. He won a National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy in 2006. Simon has a strongly multidisciplinary background having taught on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across subjects as diverse as Business Management, Modern Foreign Languages, English Language Teaching (ELT), European Studies, International Studies and International Relations. He has also taught Education and Development and Management Studies at the University of York. He is happiest when teaching modules with a strongly political content, reflecting his own academic background and current status as a PhD research student at Leeds University in the Department of Politics and International Studies. His research is on the development of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). He is the author of Europe, the State and Globalisation (Longman, 2005) as well as several books on ELT, mainly for Cambridge University Press.
E: s[dot]sweeney[at]yorksj[dot]ac[dot]uk
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| Beverly Geesin
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Beverly Geesin is Head of Programme for Communication and Culture at York St John University. She formerly taught at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, Rider University and at the University of York before taking up her current post in 2008. Beverly is in the final stages of completing a PhD in Sociology at the University of York. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland where she also worked for four years as a Research Assistant to George Ritzer. She completed an MA in Interactive Media at Goldsmiths. Her main areas of interest are social theory, cultural theory, surveillance, new media art, spatial informatics and computer mediated communication. She is a regular contributor to conferences and is reviews editor for Information, Communication and Society.
E: b[dot]geesin[at]yorksj[dot]ac[dot]uk
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| Mark Dransfield
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Mark Dransfield is responsible for implementing the e-Learning strategy throughout York St John University, which includes management of the VLE, staff training, implementation and integration of new systems and advising on current, new and emerging technologies in education. A former York St John student, both undergraduate and postgraduate, Mark worked for several years in the private sector as a web designer and developer before becoming interested in education. After completing his PGCE, he worked as a learning technologist, assisting academics and other colleagues in the development of enriched learning resources and training them in the effective use of the VLE. He is heavily involved with the Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) CETL and co-presented on the use of mobile technologies in clinical settings at the mLearn 2006 conference in Banff, Canada.
E: m[dot]dransfield[at]yorksj[dot]ac[dot]uk
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