****Learning & Teaching Support Network Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (LTSN-GEES)****
Dear Colleagues,
A special bumper edition of PLANET will be arriving in academic departments next week. The issue, containing over 25 papers on linking teaching & research and undertaking pedagogic research in GEES, is our fifth special edition.
Papers include:
* Designing a curriculum that values a research-based approach to student learning
* Linking teaching & research in an undergraduate fieldwork training programme
* Integrating field-based research and teaching in earth and environmental sciences
* Organising departmental research conferences for student project work
* Santa Cruz field course: developing team research expertise
* Linking teaching & research within a community-based project
* Using digital mapping tolls and 3-D visualisation to improve undergrdaute work
* Evaluating a student group project on creating a GIS
* Carrying out pedagogic research into the constructive alignment of fieldwork
* Technology before Pedagogy? A GEES C&IT perspective
* Using Pedagogic research in Course Design: A Geochemistry example in distance-learning
* Examining the effects of teaching/learning methods on student understanding of value-laden issues
....And much more!
I hope that you find the issue interesting and useful.
Kind regards, and season's greetings.
Steve Gaskin
Dr Steve Gaskin (ILTM)
LTSN-GEES
Buckland House
University of Plymouth
PL4 8AA
Tel: + 00 44 (0)1752 233535
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Web: www.gees.ac.uk
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