- Joint Symposium (led by ESSD)
- The aims of this symposium will be to promote the contribution of
the FDTL activities, to share experiences of managing education projects,
and to begin to identify what the three disciplines might learn from
each other about best practice. These discussions will contribute to
the development of the agenda for the new Centre for Geography, Earth
and Environmental Sciences, and enable more staff from the three disciplines
to get to know one another. This will help to lay the professional and
personal foundations on which the new centre will be able to build.
The symposium will take place on 8 March 2000 at the Great Northern
Hotel, London.
- Good Practice Database (led by GDN)
- The GDN has established a very successful database
containing studies of good practice drawn mainly from geography. This
database will be updated and extended by adding contributions from the
earth and environmental sciences.
- Joint Booklet (led by SEED)
- A booklet will be written and circulated to all relevant departments
highlighting the work of all the FDTL and TLTP projects in geography,
earth and environmental sciences. This will help to promote a shared
community of interest across the disciplines and it will also be used
to mark and promote the move forward to the new subject centre.
- Developing International Links (led by GDN)
- The GDN has recently established an international network of geographers
interested in the development of HE teaching and learning, namely the
International Network for Learning and Teaching
of Geography in Higher Education (INLT). There are similar networks
operating in environmental and earth sciences, including the Association
of University Departments of Environmental Sciences in Europe (AUDES)
and the International Geo-Sciences Education Organisation. These networks
will be used to bring the work of the FDTL projects to an international
audience and to identify ways in which the projects and new subject
centre can benefit from good practice in these disciplines overseas.
- Developing Cross-Disciplinary Links (led by HILP)
- The HILP project differs from the other three in that it includes eleven subject ranging from the natural sciences to the humanities and from civil engineering to social work. Building on this experience, further cross-disciplinary dissemination of relevant materials from the four projects will be undertaken, focussing on materials for skills development. The planned output will be the production of Web pages highlighting the potential cross-disciplinary applications of the skills work already undertaken by the projects.
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