The University Teaching prizes have been announced for an award ceremony in October. The prizes are awarded annually by each Faculty, and there is a separate prize for learning support that is available to teaching and non-teaching staff.
The Humanities Faculty Teaching Prize was shared between two members of SECL, Professor Laurence Goldstein from the Department of Philosophy and Heidi Colthup from the Department of English Language & Linguistics.
Laurence specifically won for his innovative project of introducing tutorials by video link through the use of WebEx platform, that enables having an on screen conference between tutor and student which can be recorded for playback or external examination.
Heidi’s innovative contribution to the module LZ522: Writing in the Media, a higher level module. Heidi has been responsible for several developments, such as modifying the interview assignment, developing a module Twitter feed, and most importantly introducing a pitch assignment which led to a number of students not only sending off their pitches but getting interest most notably from The Times Literary Supplement, Cosmopolitan and The Spectator.
Both Laurence and Heidi have won £2,500 contribution to professional expenses to encourage and expand their work.
The full list of winners is available here:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/news.html?view=568