Contents:
- Overview
- Why should I use the Database?
- What goes into the GEES Subject Centre Resource Database?
- How can I contribute to the growth of the GEES Subject Centre Resource Database?
- Your Comments
Overview
The GEES Subject Centre Resource Database is a web-based database that holds information about learning, teaching and assessment resources for the higher education GEES community. The database provides easy access to resources for our community through a single area on the GEES Subject Centre website. Records covering case studies of good practice, tutorials, journal articles, and course textbooks are in the database and reference not only web-based resources but also physical resources including books and CDs.
Why should I use the Database?
The database holds carefully selected records covering many types of resource. Below are a few examples of how the database could help in your learning and teaching activities:
- You may wish to try something new in your teaching and would like to see what other colleagues have done in that area. The database can identify numerous good practice abstracts that can inform your practice.
- If you are looking for specific course components to use in your learning and teaching, or ideas upon which to base your own materials, the database can identify information provided by both learning and teaching projects and individual academics.
- It may be, considering the current ethos of scholarship within learning and teaching, that you are interested in carrying out pedagogic research within the GEES subjects. The database carries information on current and former learning and teaching projects allowing access to existing research.
What goes into the GEES Subject Centre Resource Database?
Every resource that is catalogued in the database is first examined for quality and relevance. In this way we hope that the records you find when searching the database will be highly relevant to learning, teaching and assessment in the higher education GEES disciplines. It should be noted that while the database includes materials such as tutorials, case studies and pedagogic research it tends not to hold general subject-based content. For example, information on resources like such as data services, organisational web sites such as the various NASA websites, research centres and bibliographic databases are held by http://intute.ac.uk/. To explain this distinction further; the GEES Subject Centre resource database would hold a record describing how a GEES academic used the NASA website in their teaching but not necessarily store a record describing the NASA website itself.
How can I contribute to the growth of the GEES Subject Centre Resource Database?
We would like to know about any learning and teaching initiatives or resources you have used, are using or are currently developing, which you feel may be of interest to fellow practitioners. Our focus for inclusion is on the learning and teaching value and context of each resource rather than acting simply as a knowledge content database. For example, rather than providing a textbook title and description, a record will, ideally, also include descriptions of usage. If we could get one resource from each of our potential GEES colleagues we would be well on the way to offering an extensive yet focussed resource for the whole GEES HE community. How to contribute a case study of good practice.
e-mail: Esther Bobek (Resource coordinator)
Your Comments
Finally, please feel free to send us your feedback. We value your comments and constructive criticism on the use of the database. Please email the database administrator, Mike Sanders masanders@plymouth.ac.uk.