What is happening in Media Studies seminars?
ADC-LTSN has earmarked £5000 to fund a project investigating the use of
seminars within UK undergraduate media and communication courses.
The core aim of this project overall is to discover how the size of seminar
groups has affected the forms of learning and teaching that take place in
them. In addition the project has four further aims:
1. To map the incidence of the seminar within learning and teaching in
HE Media and Communication Studies at the start of the 21st century in the
UK
2. To analyse the use of the seminar in terms of:
(a) the size of seminar groups
(b) frequency of seminars
(c) percentage of student class contact time accounted for by
seminars
(d) other methods of learning and teaching that are used in
conjunction with seminars
3. To record the variety of learning and teaching practices found in
large group seminars
4. To investigate both students' and teachers' experiences and views on
the usefulness of the seminar
This project has been designed to be commissioned out to an interested
research team.
Applications should include:
* Contact details
* How the research will be approached, organised and conducted, and
who will be involved including the HEIs to be contacted
* Evidence of the applicants' abilities to carry out the research,
including details of previous work
* Timetable and budget. Up to £5000 is available, and funding covers a
period of 12 months. Applicants should provide a detailed breakdown of costs
including replacement of teaching, research/admin support, transcription of
interviews, postage, printing/copying, dissemination, travel and
subsistence. Details of any institutional contribution should be provided.
Expressions of interest should be submitted via e-mail to Tina Williams,
ADC-LTSN Research Officer, at [log in to unmask], by 8th March
2002.
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