Case Studies from the GDN Guides

	Teaching and Learning Issues and Managing Educational Change in Geography
	Lecturing in Geography
	Small-group Teaching in Geography
	Practicals and Laboratory Work in Geography
	Fieldwork and Dissertations in Geography
	Resource-based Learning in Geography
	Teaching and Learning Geography with Information and Communication Technologies
	Transferable Skills and Work-based Learning in Geography
	Assessment in Geography
	Curriculum Design in Geography

Teaching and Learning Issues and Managing Educational Change in Geography

Vince Gardiner & Vaneeta D'Andrea (with Shân Wareing)

• Lecturing: a case study from the University of Plymouth
• Assessment issues: a case study from Roehampton Institute London

Lecturing in Geography

Clive Agnew & Lewis Elton

• How do I encourage active learning?
• Lecture reviews by students
• Lectures and distance learning
• Enhancing lectures by student interviews
• The use of case studies: the teaching and learning of economic theory

Small-group Teaching in Geography

Gordon Clark & Terry Wareham

• Small-group Teaching at Lancaster University
• Small-group Teaching at the University of Leeds

Practicals and Laboratory Work in Geography

Jacky Birnie & Kristine Mason O'Connor

• Water quality problems in Leeds
• Environmental change in Shetland
• Crofting - Voices from the past
• Experiments in geomorphology
• Introduction to the laboratory
• Bracken invasion
• Experiments in soil erosion
• Images of the Third World
• Weathering, rainsplash and rivers
• Stress, strain and plasticity
• Projects on geographical issues
• Understanding the electromagnetic spectrum
• Predicting a volcanic eruption

Fieldwork and Dissertations in Geography

Ian Livingstone, Hugh Matthews & Andrew Castley

• Streetwork: an encounter with place
• Student-authored fieldtrails
• Self-paced distance learning packages for large group fieldwork

Resource-based Learning in Geography

Mick Healey

• Replacing lectures by using audiotapes and written materials
• Replacing blocks of lectures with RBL packages
• Redesigning a module using a RBL package focused around a set of assignments
• Designing a course around a textbook
• Developing a set of RBL packages

Teaching and Learning Geography with Information and Communication Technologies

Ifan Shepherd (Advisor: Peter Newby)

• Using courseware to integrate skills across the curriculum
• Using computer software to provide case studies
• Using home-made software to illustrate difficult concepts
• Developing multimedia courseware to reflect a philosophy of learning
• A computer-supported independent study module
• Collaborative learning using computer-mediated communications (CMC)
• Using email to encourage communications among students and staff
• Collaboration among staff to produce a Web fieldcourse site
• Creating electronic posters on the Web

Transferable Skills and Work-based Learning in Geography

Brian Chalkley & June Harwood

• An institution-wide approach to the skills curriculum
• Discrete modules in transferable skills
• An integrated approach to skills teaching
• A portfolio approach to transferable skills
• The full year placement
• A placement geography module

Assessment in Geography

Michael Bradford & Catherine O'Connell

• Using self and peer assessment to improve essay writing
• Assessment by viva voce
• Using technology to provide enriched feedback on student coursework
• Changing assessment practices in first and second year geography modules using computer assisted assessment (CAA)
• Computer-aided formative assessment
• Student centred learning through guided group work
• Streamlining assessment to improve quality

Curriculum Design in Geography

Alan Jenkins

• Liverpool Hope University College: a value-added curriculum
• University College London: a research-led department
• Oxford Brookes University: an integrated curriculum
• Virtual Geography Deparment

Guides to Good Teaching, Learning and Assessment Practices in Geography