Projects - Dr Charles Juwah
Plagiarism Project
Plagiarism continues to raise concern for the higher education sector. This project aims to make a contribution towards promoting students' academic practice through promotion of values, awareness raising, education and training. To that end, the project has generated some useful resources for the benefit of both staff and students.
Information and Resources
Staff Training and Development for Plagiarism Deterrence
Software/Tools for Plagiarism Detection
News Items
Designing and redesigning curricula
This project involves capturing the process of design and redesigning of curricula to meet standards and quality assurance requirements within four international countries (2003 - 2007).
Designing the ePortfolio
This John Gray's award for innovative teaching and learning will focus on designing an ePortfolio for supporting quality learning and for enhancing employability. In addition, the project will evaluate the effectiveness of ePortfolio as a teaching, learning and assessment tool.
Using Personal Development Planning To Support Professional Development
The acquisition and development of up-to-date knowledge, skills, capabilities and competences is central to the quality and the competitiveness of both the professional and the organisation in today’s knowledge-based economy. Personal development planning can be used to help facilitate the professional, as well as contributing to organisational development. This ongoing project aims at embedding the personal development planning process in skills and capabilities development.
The objectives of the project are to:
- integrate teaching, learning, assessment and feedback processes around the individual needs
- enhance and support autonomous and lifelong learning and add value to personal and professional skills development.
Enhancing Quality of Higher Education Teaching Through Staff Development
Maintaining a competitive edge in the global education market is a raison d’etre for ensuring an enhanced quality of teaching, learning, and institutional effectiveness. Current thinking on the quality agenda in the UK higher education sector is signalling a move away from the notion of compliance to that of quality enhancement, with value added to the outcomes of the teaching and learning process. Thus, the move towards and focus on quality enhancement will inevitably ensure quality assurance (HEFCE, 2001 Consultation Paper 01/45; SHEFC 2001 – Circular Letter No. 55). Staff development as a change mechanism has been very critical in contributing to the quality enhancement of teaching and learning via developing lecturers’ capabilities in engaging learners in active and purposeful learning. This research study aims to investigate the impact of staff development on quality enhancement of teaching.
The objectives of the research project are to:
- assess the impact of staff training and development on the quality of teaching
- identify the “value added” to the quality of the learning experience
Effectiveness of the PGCertHELT Mentoring Scheme
This ongoing study aims at investigating the effectiveness of mentoring support to the Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education Learning and Teaching (PGCertHELT) course members.
The objectives of the study are to:
- identify and evaluate the mentoring styles and strategies adopted by mentors in their mentor-mentee relationship
- ascertain the benefits of the scheme to both the mentees and mentors
- identify (if any) issues of concerns and/or problem areas with the scheme
- determine what necessary improvements need to be made to the mentoring scheme based on feedback from the mentees and mentors on the effectiveness of the scheme
- identify development and support needs of the mentors and respond to those needs as appropriate
