Nano Conference #7 - Enabling Employability
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Wednesday 25 October 2023
10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
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Nano Conferences are a series of online, bite-sized, convenient sessions that share practices to enhance the student experience.
Running once a semester, Nanos include six presentations lasting only 15 minutes each, showcasing staff and student insights from a variety of disciplines and settings across the CU Group, as well as external speakers. This year, Nano #7 has taken on the theme of Enabling Employability.
Agenda and speakers
- 10:30am Welcome - Brinder Rajpal, Academic Developer, Academic Enhancement and Professional Development
- 10:35am University Social Responsibility: A Primer
This talk will tackle forms of university social responsibility with a particular focus on those that have an impact on student learning. A university that is committed to addressing societal challenges and contributing to the development of its community is said to be a socially responsible institution. Service-learning, which is a form of experiential education, combines learning objectives with community service to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs. Examples of student-led service-learning projects will be presented and discussed to shed light on how student engagement with local communities reinforces learning in real-world situations that otherwise would not be possible to simulate in the classroom.
- 10:50am Making Large Scale Assessed Groupwork Work Well - the Tale of Two Modules
This presentation will share how lessons learned about assessment of and for learning from a module, helped inform the assessment redesign of another. This case highlights successful use of group work, Padlet, and class activities to track assessment progress and create opportunities for group co-creation and cohesion. The assessment redesign enhanced student progression and supported ease of marking and feedback.
- 11:05am Transforming Lives through Service Learning: Empowering Communities and Enhancing Employability
A showcase of how Level 4 students at Coventry University Wrocław worked on a service-learning project that aimed to empower small business owners and senior entrepreneurs who possess limited knowledge of social media platforms. Following a preliminary needs assessment and then throughout the course of the project, students created a step-by-step social media guide to inform the target audience about the potential of social media as a powerful marketing tool, enabling them to effectively utilise these platforms to have more market visibility, boost their revenues, and upgrade their businesses.
- 11:20 – 11:30am Break
- 11:30am Unlocking Potential & Empowering Diversity through Coventry University's Black Interns Project
This presentation will delve into the powerful impact of Coventry University's Black Interns Project in improving diversity within the world of work. By bridging the gap between academia and professional development, this project has successfully opened doors for aspiring black professionals, fostering an inclusive and equitable environment. We will explore some of the barriers to entry, our strategies, outcomes, and prospects of this initiative, highlighting the transformative potential it holds for creating a more diverse and vibrant workforce.
- 11:45am Employability: a student perspective
- 12:00pm - Research Enriched Learning the Coventry Way
This talk will focus on engaging staff in research-enriched learning. It offers practical tips for initiating research-based teaching, emphasizing the benefits of incorporating research into learning environments. Attendees will gain insights and actionable advice to embark on this pedagogical approach effectively.
- 12:15pm Closing - Brinder Rajpal, Academic Developer, Academic Enhancement and Professional Development
Enquiries
For enquiries please contact the Academic Enhancement and Professional Development team.
