No Images? Click here Welcome to our second issue!With this new magazine from the Learning Enhancement and Academic Development Service (or LEADS, for short), we want to highlight what we can do for you, and how we can work with you and your students. Ask the ExpertsQ: When is ethical permission required for educational research/scholarship and when is it not? I'm thinking about Moodle analytics, class sizes, grades. And will journals have the same rules for this as UofG? Answer by Dr Michael McEwan and Dr Vicki Dale A: The short answer is that, although these datasets are routinely collected and made available to you as a staff member, if you want to publish in any form, ethics approval is required. Most importantly, research participants must be told that this will happen. All data from, or about, human subjects requires ethics approval, unless these are publicly (and lawfully) available. To take examples from the question:
Since the answer to each of these is 'no', you'd need to seek ethics approval from your College's Research Ethics Comittee in advance. Studies involving human participants are subject to the University’s devolved ethics processes. In such an instance... CPD, Events and Staff CoursesSupporting students in writing for academia and beyond: Kelvin News - An Outreach Project by, and for, PGT Students - Dr Nic LabrosseJanuary 12, 13:00 - 14:00Tea and coffee will be available, and you're welcome to bring your lunch! 11th Annual Learning & Teaching Conference - Call for Lightning Talks These will be five minutes each plus three minutes for questions, with two slides, so think carefully about how you'll present your work when submitting an abstract! Staff from the LEADS ‘How To Moodle’ group have had an enthusiastic response to the course that launched earlier this semester. Members of the group have now made a video to help spread the word about the value of the interactive resource, which is aimed at all those involved in learning and teaching at the University of Glasgow. As well as encouraging creative ways to enhance learning and teaching, ‘How to Moodle’ also offers user guides. Find out more from the ‘How to Moodle’ team below, or visit gla.ac.uk/HowToMoodle. Our multidisciplinary undergraduate research conference, Let's Talk About [X], is back with a call for papers!If your students have carried out any research, let them know they can submit an abstract now for one of 22 spaces at Let's Talk About [X] on 27 and 28 Feb 2018 . Volume 2 of the sister journal, [X]position,
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