Glasgow Caledonian University Course Redesigns

The Caledonian Business School (CBS) is the largest Business School in Scotland offering over fifty career-focused programmes across a variety of levels and modes of study. During 2005/2007 CBS undertook re-engineering activities in the core modules of six of the School's eight divisions as well as sharing experiences across the whole Business School.


Course Redesigns
GCU Learning & Teaching Showcase Event 25th May 2006

This one day event was designed to allow staff at GCU to "celebrate and learn about ... innovative practice". There were six themed strands to the showcase which included: Staff Development; Assessment; The Student Experience; Employability; Flexible Delivery; and Learning and Teaching.

The Assessment strand was used to showcase projects being redesigned by CBS as part of REAP.

Presentations were made by:

Gillian Roberts: Overview of REAP in CBS

This presentation introduces the drivers behind the REAP project and highlights the redesign projects being undertaken as part of REAP

Andy Sharp: Interactive Lectures - Pilot of using EVS

This presentation reports on the work Andy and Douglas Chalmers have been doing in piloting and evaluating two alternative Electronic Voting Systems in Semester B 2005-06.

Anne Warren: Enhancing Student Engagement & Feedback Throughout the Semester

Anne reports on the first implementation of re-engineering the assessment strategy in the 2nd year module Consumer Buyer Behaviour, taken by 265 students in 2005-06.

Changes made enable early formative (and summative) feedback to be given to students, who are then encouraged to use this feedback to enhance their performance in subsequent assessment activities.

Sheena MacArthur: Large Scale Simultaneous Online Assessment

This presentation focuses on the evaluation of implementing online assessment in Semester A in January 2006.

Since then, the Semester B online assessment has also been undertaken with changes made identified following evaluation of Semester A experience. While an updated evaluation will follow, the online assessment in Semester B was 100% successful!

Caledonian Business School presents at REAP management event 5th April 2006

Update on REAP at Caledonian Business School (ppt), presented by Linda Creanor.

Caledonian Business School participates in SU Learning Enhancement Network REAP Event 25th April 2006

Presentation by Gillian Roberts, GCU Caledonian Business School

Presentation by Sheena MacArthur, GCU Caledonian Business School

REAP article in Glasgow Caledonian University Magazine

An article introducing REAP's aims and some of the institutional drivers for the project has been featured in the Glasgow Caledonian University e-Learning Magazine e-learning@gcal 

'Carpe Diem' Event, Thursday 18th January 2006

An opportunity for staff at Glasgow Caledonian University participating in the REAP project to reflect on assessment practices in key modules with a view to reducing assessment workload and enhancing feedback opportunities. A variety of technologies including online tests, electronic voting systems, e-portfolios, simulations discussed. Event Programme. For more information, see events.