Engineering engagement with EVSHelen Singer, Information Manager,University of Hertfordshire

Talk outline

Scenario Problem Solution Issues Outcome

Scenario

• 2 Schools:Computer Science Engineering &

Technology• 600 first year students

need induction at start of term

ProblemTimetable didn’t allow dividing students into groups of 30 for ‘KnowHow’ tours and sessions

Solution• Both Schools have a

compulsory level 4 skills module

• Offered to take part in lecture at beginning of term just before 1ST assignment

• Given whole hour!

• Decided to use EVS as all students issued with ‘clickers’ as part of Learning and Teaching Strategy

Issues• Last year at first lecture

EVS crashed• This was due to

hypertext links in my slides

• Last year used separate PC for questions and laptop for slides

• This year removed links and did live demo separately

Does using the connector AND to connect your search terms give you

1. More results2. Fewer

results

Outcome• The questions were a

break from my talk!• The students seemed to

like the competitive element

• They got used to using EVS in a formative way

• Tricky bringing them back after each question

• Next year will reduce number of questions