Vietnam - UK Higher Education Partnership
Developing an Innovative Trans-National Education Approach to the Teaching of Natural Products Chemistry
This project is sponsored by the British Council Vietnam as part of the UK - Vietnam Higher Education Partnerships Programme
Active Learning workshops
Webinar version
Workshop 1
1st-4th December 2020
Workshop 2
14th, 15th, 17th, 18th December 2020
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Are you a University lecturer in the field of Pharmacy, Science or Healthcare? Do you want to explore new teaching methods and approaches to curriculum design?
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Join us at this FREE four session workshop where we will look at:
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Surface versus deep learning and constructive alignment: why active learning works
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Tools and Techniques for delivering active learning: using technology to facilitate learning
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Gamification of learning: how to exploit natural competitiveness and put the fun into learning
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Alternative and modernised assessments: why active learning leads to alternative assessment
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For more information email: susan.matthews@uea.ac.uk (Dr. Susan Matthews) or blminh@ntt.edu.vn
(Dr. Le Minh Bui).
These events are sponsored by the British Council Vietnam as part of its UK: VN HEP programme
PROGRAMME
Day 1 Deep versus Surface learning
Day 2 Tools and techniques for delivery of active learning
Day 3 Gamification of learning
Day 4 Alternative and modernised assessments
* The order of the topics might be subjected to change. The exact programme will be sent to webinar attendees by e-mail, along with the instructions to join the web conference on Teams
FACILITATOR PROFILES
Dr. Susan Matthews (University of East Anglia)
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Dr Susan Matthews is a UK Registered Pharmacist with 18 years of experience teaching Chemistry to undergraduates in the UK and Ireland.
She obtained her BPharm (Hons) from the University of Nottingham, UK, her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Bath, UK and completed post-doctoral fellowships in the Czech republic, Germany and the UK.
She has a particular interest in curriculum design, having been involved in the founding of the UEA School of Pharmacy, and has acted as an external examiner for a number of UK universities and as a consultant for Pearson on new high school curricula.
Dr. Paul McDermott (University of East Anglia)
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Dr Paul McDermott is a Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry within the School of Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He graduated from the University of east Anglia with a BSc and PhD in Chemistry. His education research interests focus on learners’ self-assessment and metacognitive awareness. Towards this end he has developed a number of active learning pedagogies as well as a novel method for the measurement of learners’ self-assessment accuracy.
