Current Projects

University projects involving learning & technology

Gwella Enhancement Projects

Project Leader - David Gill
Funding - HEFCW
Project Report Our Gwella Story

Following on from the HEFCW Benchmarking exercise there are six projects designed to take forward some of the findings from exercise.

School of Health Science: e-Mark - electronic marking and student support

School of Health Science: pVox – real people, real experiences

ELTS: e-learning for Higher Education EAP learners

2Evaluate - Using Web 2.0 Technologies for Collaborative Student-Centred Learning

School of Engineering: A Peer Support Platform
http://supeersupport.blogspot.com/

LIS: Appreciative Inquiry of Student Experience
http://pebblepad.swan.ac.uk/viewasset.aspx?oid=43343&type=blog

More project sites will be available shortly

Portable Classroom

Project Leader - Chris Cardew
Funding - LIS

Building on previous work on the Wiimote, this would enable any room to have the capabilities of an interactive whiteboard in a portable package containing a netbook computer, a miniature projector and utilizing the Wiimote interactive whiteboard.

The Netbook would be loaded with Windows XP, MS Office, Turning Point, WiiMote Controller Software and Audacity. It would also be matched with the Wiimote for ease of setup.

Podcasting the Ancients

Enhancing the Teaching of Classical Archaeology and Egyptology Through Podcasting
Project Leader - Dr. David Gill
Funding - HEA
Porject website - http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/heapodcasting

The project has two elements

Archaeological sites and monuments of Greece
A series of podcasts consisting of images of archaeological sites with recordings made in the field or in the office to explain features. This will include a series on key sites in Athens and Attica; the Pergamon frieze.

Explaining Egyptian iconography
A series of podcasts on the 21st Dynasty wooden coffin in Swansea University's Egypt Centre. These will be published as a series (via a RSS feed) to explain the iconography and guide the viewer round the coffin. As the woman was a musician the project would explore the possibility of adding music and sound effects to highlight and illustrate the podcast. This part of the project could have 3 outputs -
  • The series set within and example teaching context
  • Visitors to the Egypt Centre could use the series and the 'Top 10' as a personal guide to items from the Centre
  • A 'construction kit' made up of the images, the narrative, sound effects and music broken down into small segments that can be reconstructed by the user or used for different purposes.

Using Emotionally Intelligent Transaction Mapping (EITM) to Reshape Student Lifecycle Interactions


Project Site http://blog.swansea.ac.uk/eitm/

On 29th June 2009, JISC funded a pilot project for Swansea University to use Emotional indicators as a tool to help map the transactions and interactions that students undertake during their lifecycle. The anticipated outcomes of this project are that by looking at how students ‘feel’ rather than what they ‘expect’ the University will be able to redesign the pre-registration, post registration and induction stage of the student lifecycle so the services available for students enhance their experience of University.

Project Executive - Professor Alan Speight, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Student Experience and Academic Quality Enhancement)
Project Manager - Simon Wright, Director of Student Services.
Project Officer - Meghann Morris-Luck m.c.morris-luck@swansea.ac.uk

Swansea International Health

Swansea International Health aims to provide opportunities for the staff and students in our Medical School and NHS Trust to contribute to improving health in resource-poor countries.

To achieve this aim, we have developed partnerships with colleagues working in West Africa: The Ibadan-Swansea Partnership (ISP) provides support for health professionals in poorer countries in making their own computer-based learning materials. This builds capacity in adult learning and eLearning and generates open-access, copyright-free modules that focus on priority diseases.

The Swansea-Gambia Link is a broader partnership that aims to bring staff and students together to work for mutual benefit on health issues of common interest - including clinical care, health service delivery, teaching and research.
Themes that underlie our involvement in international health are:
  • Building the capacity of health professionals to improve health outcomes
  • Involving medical, nursing and other students in international health early in their careers

Interview with Steve Allen on the Ibadan-Swansea Partnership - August 2008