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Accrediting Students for Extra-curricular Learning
This chapter describes how we have developed a module to give academic credit for three broad areas of experience: student representative/student union work; work within the local community; individual work experience.
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Diploma of Personal and Professional Development
BruneI has decided to mark their four-year courses with distinctive value. The university will record the achievements of students on work placements, monitoring and assessing these, and award a classified diploma at the end of the process, in addition to the classified degree.
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Student Tutoring as a Modular Activity
Student tutoring provides an enjoyable and rewarding experience though which students can practise and acquire communication skills by working with young people. If electrical engineering undergraduates can explain what electricity is to a 10-year-old then they will probably understand it better themselves!
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"Quality Management" or "The Educative Workplace": alternative versions of competence-based education
Much of the critique of competence-based education is appropriate in relation to the NVQ model, but a comparison of the occupational standards for management with an alternative approach devised for a competence-based degree illustrates that models can be developed that are more appropriate to the context of higher education.
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"The Vicarious Learner": Supporting Discussion and Reuseable Dialogues for On-Line Learners

 

The ‘Vicarious Learning Project’, is an experiment in how developing educational technologies can successfully support dialogue and discussion for on-line students who do not have access to the traditional modes of discussion. Learners, by observing others in interaction, especially teachers and fellow learners, internalise a wide range of knowledge and skills.

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