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Please forward as appropriate... ============================================================ Call for Proposals: Economics Learning and Teaching Handbook ============================================================ http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/advice/handbook.htm Closing date: 8th March The Economics Centre of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (Economics LTSN) is seeking academic economists to do freelance work to help create a new resource for the UK economics community. The work would involve authoring or editing short guides, of approximately 8000 words each, on aspects of teaching practice in economics. Each guide would follow a basic structure: * Introduction * Main content * Top tips * A summary of relevant pedagogical research * A couple of short case studies * References The guides would be gathered together in a single volume to be distributed to each UK HE economics department for the start of the next academic year. It would also be made available on the Economics LTSN Web site. We therefore require economists with expertise in one or more of the areas of learning and teaching practice listed below and who have experience of working in the HE sector. The guides are grouped under the headings of teaching, assessment, evaluation of teaching and course design. Teaching --------- * Lectures (already allocated) * Tutorials and Seminars * Workshops * Problem-Based Learning * Using the Web in teaching * Games, Simulations and role playing * Case Studies * Virtual Learning Environments Assessment ---------- * Alternative forms of formative and summative assessment * Peer assessment * Group assessment * Computer-aided Assessment Evaluation of teaching ---------------------- * Questionnaires * Peer-Observation Course Design ------------- * Designing undergraduate degree programmes * Subject Benchmarking * Key Skills You are invited to submit proposals to write up to two guides or to edit one of the above four groups of guides. Authors will be paid £1,500 for authoring the intellectual content of each guide (before tax and national insurance contributions). Editors will be paid for editing the intellectual content of all the guides under their nominated heading and writing a general introduction to the section. They would be expected to be available for consultation by the authors of the guides within that category. The payment for editors is as follows (before tax and national insurance contributions): £4,000 - Teaching £2,000 - Assessment £1,500 - Course Design £1,000 - Evaluation This work can be done in your own time and from any location, but it is essential that you work to the timescales and deadlines detailed. There will be an author's/editor's workshop at the end of March which contributors will be strongly encouraged to attend. The major period of work will be between March and the end of June 2002 (for authors) or the end of July (for editors) 2002. Closing date: 8th March More information, including an online application form can be found at: http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/advice/handbook.htm ---------------------- Chris Mitchell, Economics LTSN, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol, [log in to unmask]