Personal statement
I am a teaching fellow in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. My job focuses on teaching and learning in computer science, in particular my role currently involves the development and delivery of a range of classes, membership of teaching committees, and co-ordination of final year projects.
In teaching computer science my primary goal is to develop students' ability to be computational thinkers. I believe this can be achieved by encouraging deep learning of the subject material and developing students as independent learners. To help develop students as independent learners I adopt a student-centred approach. To achieve this I use a number of mechanisms. One example is "interactive windows" as defined by Huxham (2005) where at most 10 minutes of content is delivered followed by activities such as paired discussions, problem solving, and quiz questions.
As well as my day to day teaching and learning activities, I am also interested in the pedagogy of computer science. I am eager to explore how we can achieve more effective and efficient assessment and feedback and my work has covered aspects such as blended learning, plagiarism and continuous assessment.
Professional activities
- Advance HE Learning and Teaching Conference 2022
- Speaker
- 5/7/2022
- Building a Student Resilience Toolkit
- Speaker
- 5/7/2022
- Strathclyde Student Resilience Toolkit
- Speaker
- 9/6/2022
- Computing Education Practice 2022
- Chair
- 2022
- Flipping the Classroom
- Speaker
- 1/7/2020
- Designing Multiple Choice Questions to assess Higher Level Cognitive Abilities
- Speaker
- 7/2020
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Projects
- A Success Infrastructure for a Diverse Student Community
- Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator)
- QAA funded research project for 2 student interns (£1000)
- 03-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Building Student Resilience in HE: A Strathclyde Toolkit
- Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator)
- £2000 QAA Enhancement Theme funding on Student Resilience will support the employment of 4 student interns to develop a toolkit of resources for students and staff at Strathclyde.
- 07-Jan-2021 - 06-Jan-2022
- Science Study Skills
- English, Rosanne (Principal Investigator)
- This project is developing resource to support Science students in science specific aspects of study skills. For example, this includes scientific writing.
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
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Address
Computer and Information Sciences
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