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Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning (CEEBL)

Description

The Centre supported and disseminated new initiatives inside and outside the university.

It rewarded those leading innovation, made available expertise and resources, and carried out extensive evaluation and research. This steered institutional strategy, so that a focus on enquiry increasingly characterised the experience of students.
It is essential that students at the university are educated for knowledge creation, lifelong learning and leadership. They will take on leading roles in their future working environments; directing change, asking important questions, solving problems and developing new knowledge. Basing learning on a process of enquiry will develop the necessary abilities and attitudes, while still taking account of an increasingly diversified student population.

Projects:

• Using participatory image based research to inform teaching and learning about inclusion in education.
• Improving the PBL experience for first year nurses.
  Innovative student assessment in EBL.
• A structured approach to preparation for group project work.
• Being a student: An ethnographic perspective.
• Assessment and Enterprise through EBL.
• An integrated model of EBL in practice.
• Manchester Access Programme: EBL Master Classes
  Embedding Interdisciplinarity: Developing a generic undergraduate EBL Team Project Module.
• Medical Assessment via EBL.
• An enquiry based learning approach to drug development and design.
• Pedagogic development: Enquiry-based learning for constructed textiles.
• Partnerships in Pedagogy.
• Application of chemical knowledge to the clinical understanding of medicines.

A series of small projects were proposed:

• Using j-Dorama in EBL Language Study in Japanese - (Humanities, Languages)
• EBL in Museums: a mechanism for gallery evaluation - (Humanities, PG students)
• ‘EBL for EBL’ - (Humanities, Languages)
  ‘Using EBL to Improve the Teaching of Science, Technology and Innovation’ - (MBS, Humanities)
• ‘EBL From the Very First Day’ - (Humanities,Geography)
  ‘An Enquiry-Based Chem Eng Design project for First Year Students’ - (EPS, Chemical Eng.)
• ‘Embedding EBL in the First Year Curriculum’ - (EPS,
  Chemical Eng.)
• ‘Conversion of an MsC Module in Physiological Measurements to EBL’ - (MHS, Medicine)
• ‘An Enquiry-Based Student-Led Project to Develop a Learning Module on Cultural Competency’ -(MHS, Medicine)
• ‘Learning About Patient Safety and Error from Tutors and Peers’ - (MHS, Medicine)
• ‘Scientific Journalism Final Year Project’- (Life Sciences,
  all final level progs)
• ‘Development of an Enquiry-Based Programme for Exploring the Scientific Method’ - (Life Sciences and Mcr Museum)

What was offered to the wider teaching/subject community:

Active engagement with the HE Academy is critical to wider dissemination. Co-development is also essential. Institutions wish to adapt EBL to suit their own missions, CEEB therefore worked with the Subject Centres. It was agreed with 3 Subject Centres that CEEBL would host and co-deliver an event for their contacts.
An alliance was formed to promote student learning through research, enquiry and problem-solving (Learning Through Enquiry Alliance). This alliance provided a focus for meetings, co-ordination of activity and national events.

Learning and assessment materials was made available to the sector through the new national JORUM (The JISC Online Repository for [Learning and Teaching] Materials). The bid team has agreed to provide pilot material as JORUM develops the system before its national launch. This engagement with a major national initiative had the potential to make a significant contribution to the whole CETL community.

Research and evaluation of student learning and assessment is essential for impact locally, nationally and internationally. The aim was to continue a culture of evaluation within the Centre and to expand the evidence base for EBL, with funding and plans for formative development from the outset.

Events:

Several events took place in 2006, a BMAF Subject Centre Workshop entitled ‘Engaging our Students by Linking Enquiry-Based Learning, Learning Journals and reflective Thinking’ takes place on 8 November 2006.

Events were continually posted on the CEEBL website.

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