Due to the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, social distancing requirements means that lecture hall capacity has had to reduce dramatically in order to space students out sufficiently. This spacing is typically done manually, which is slow and can lead to inefficient use of space. The EPS EdTech and Analytics Group worked with Library services to utilise … Continue reading “COVID19 – Room Allocation”
Supporting College Track and Trace
Teaching this year has changed dramatically. The university has quickly moved teaching online and reallocated teaching space to be used for live sessions in a socially distanced way. Many of the live session are now dynamically allocated to students on a sign-up basis so this data it important for supporting track and trace efforts. Using … Continue reading “Supporting College Track and Trace”
BAME Gap Analysis
The gap between BAME students and non-BAME students is currently a big challenge in higher education. It exists at a national and institutional level, stemming from a myriad of causes. The gap is known as the “BAME gap”. In the current climate, the BAME gap is particularly important, as it was found that there was … Continue reading “BAME Gap Analysis”
Maple TA Interns
The EPS EdTech group supports multiple lecturers with formative and summative assessment material. This material has been created over multiple years, and has involved a surprisingly large number of people. The majority of Mobius based work is created by undergraduate students from the College of EPS. Each year, the group hires around 12 interns over … Continue reading “Maple TA Interns”
EPS Attendance Monitoring
Attendance monitoring of students within EPS is an important part of student welfare. Often, when students begin to struggle they also begin to reduce their attendance, and picking up on this early to help is essential. Within the College of EPS this process was extremely manual. The original workflow was: Students sign sheet within lectures. … Continue reading “EPS Attendance Monitoring”
Topic Categorisation
As part of a joint research venture between Birmingham and DigitalEd, the question of how to automatically tag content within Mobius was investigated. Tagging content within Mobius is currently under-utilised. Content is inconsistently or poorly tagged when it is, or even not at all. A larger research question across Europe was created to try to … Continue reading “Topic Categorisation”
Mathematics for Chemists
It is not a requirement for students to have A-level maths qualifications for admission onto a chemistry degree programme. This means students start their university life with a range of mathematical ability. In past years teaching mathematics to these students was carried out in a traditional lecture supported by compulsory weekly problem sessions. Dr Maryjane … Continue reading “Mathematics for Chemists”
Stock Market Game
For a number of years, Dr David Leppinen, School of Mathematics, had run a stock market game within his students. This game was run as part of a mathematical finance masters at the university where students would attempt to beat the market using the modelling techniques they had learned in the course. In this game … Continue reading “Stock Market Game”
Riemann Sums App
Dr Andrew Morris required a tool which explained the concept of the Riemann definition of integration. The app provides a visualisation of Riemann summation of a function (which limits to the area under the curve under some assumptions), and has run the app for multiple years. Upon first teaching the course, he found that students … Continue reading “Riemann Sums App”
Smart Carpark for Electrical Engineers
The smart carpark project was designed by Dr. Tim Jackson, Lecturer in Electrical Engineering. The aim was to stimulate learning within a diverse group of students with different engineering backgrounds. The design of a smart carpark is an excellent project for engineers as many different aspects of engineering are featured in this type of complex … Continue reading “Smart Carpark for Electrical Engineers”