Overview

My primary role as a university teacher is all about communicating and collaborating not only with my students but also with my colleagues. I discussed this in detail in Core area 2: Teaching, learning and/or assessment processes and I will not discuss it further here.

As QMplus Administrator for the School of Mathematical Sciences, I represent the School at the Faculty E-Learning Meeting (and I recently stood in for the Dean at the Queen Mary E-Learning Steering Group), and I attend the Queen Mary Learning Technology Group meetings fairly regularly, to which I gave a 20-minute presentation on Using the QMplus database tool in February 2015. More recently, I gave a 10-minute presentation on Managing group assessment and feedback via QMplus at the Queen Mary Learning and Teaching Conference in January 2016 in Workshop 4: Using online tools for assessment and feedback. These are two examples of how I communicate some of my e-learning activities and some of the difficulties I have run into. I will not discuss presentations further here.

As Director of Undergraduate Studies in Mathematical Sciences, I am an ex-officio member of the School of Mathematical Sciences Teaching and Learning Committee. I have chaired this committee in the past. We discuss and agree matters of teaching and learning policy. I normally provide a short report at the start of each meeting and I often initiate one or two agenda items. I am also occasionally asked by the committee to investigate some issue, draft a policy document or draft a form to be submitted to the Queen Mary administration to change some aspect of our teaching. My general approach to getting a new policy adopted is to write a draft document, circulate it for discussion and then amend it as necessary. I will discuss this in more detail and indicate how I used this approach to develop a couple of School policy documents.

I will also discuss in some detail the following topics, which have involved me communicating and negotiating with many of my academic colleagues in the School of Mathematical Sciences:

I deal with prize nominations each year on behalf of our undergraduate examination board and I recently proposed that we award a new project prize.
I recently set up a new mechanism for collecting exam papers ready to publish in our past exam papers database (which I set up a couple of years ago).
I recently proposed that we start to use QMplus as our primary repository for in-term assessment (primarily mid-term test) marks and I now manage this process.

Francis Wright's CMALT ePortfolio

Francis Wright's CMALT ePortfolio

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