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Example 1
evidence based practice materials
Example 2
building group work skills
Example 3
building research communities
Example 4
project based learning activities
Example 5
research and teaching: an intrinsic link
Example 6
the link between cultural identity and research
Example 7
An inextricable link - theory into practice
Example 8
Teaching connoiseurs of research
Example 9
Exploiting the link in course design
Example 10
innovative practice linking engineering methods and principles to constructing
a winning product
Example 11
research and links to critical pedagogy
Example 12
Four examples to promote the synergy in history
Example 13
Students' perspective on linking research and teaching
Example 14
Two students'
perspectives
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Andrew Sense teaches 11 subjects in the
Department of Management
Project-based learning activity to understand, analyse and critique the
use of TQM tools at a workplace of students' choice
The students
3rd year commerce-based students; 35 - mix of part-timers and full-timers,
international and local students
Outcomes
- Build and manage team-work skills
- Unpack the beliefs and assumptions about the use of the tools of
TQM
- Identify a real life problem at a particular site
- Select and use appropriate research methods to collect and analyse
data
- Write up results in a report format
- Write an executive summary for a key contact
- Make appropriate recommendations
- Interview the key contact to gain feedback on findings and conclusions
- Write a reflective report on the feedback and on the process of
working as a group. On the basis of this, they reflect on what could
have been improved or done differently next time
- Give an oral presentation skill to the class
Resources
Good text
Past students' examples
Bank of questions to draw on
Contacts within the university
To start...
- Students have to form groups of 3-5 of their choice
- They select an external site or operation - often their place of
work eg courier co. BHP, soft drink co.
- For international students the lecturer has set up a whole range
of contacts within the university for them to base their project around
eg career advice, University House mailing sorter, UOW operations
- They then identify a problem, work out appropriate research method,
design questions which they discuss with the rest of the class.
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