Mathematics Education Centre - November 2009
Summary of Key Points – MEC
Annual Report (http://mec.lboro.ac.uk/documents/7th_mec_annual_report.pdf)
sigma – Centre
for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
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has
developed superb working environments for students,
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has
put in place extensive 1-1 support and resources
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has
stimulated growth of similar activity across the
Mathematics Learning
Support Centre (MLSC)
Overall usage – 8023 visits (increase of 24% on
previous year)
Engineering Faculty- 2335 visits (29% of total usage in
2008/9)
|
Department |
2006/7 |
2007/8 |
2008/9 |
|
Aeronautical and Automotive |
140 |
165 |
237 |
|
Chemical |
251 |
225 |
492 |
|
Civil and Building |
340 |
310 |
263 |
|
Electronic and Electrical |
240 |
490 |
553 |
|
|
383 |
612 |
790 |
|
Eng Faculty |
1354 |
1802 |
2335 |
Table 1 - Number of Visits to MLSC
by Engineering students
Statistics support
Drop-in and appointment service – latter very popular
– Eng Faculty 22% of appointments.
Regenerative medicine group – tailored set of 8 workshops
in 2008/9
Teaching and Learning
Continued investment in resources and new technologies
– tablet PCs, Electronic Voting Systems, online resources
Grants associated with this - mathcentre/mathtutor (JISC),
e-proofs (JISC), Tablets PCs (Hewlett Packard).
Latter is a joint grant with EngCETL.
Research
Particular focus on the teaching and learning of mathematics
and statistics in the Higher Education sector.
RAE –
first time returned. 50% graded at international level. Solid platform from which to move forward.
Continuation Funding
Operations
sub-committee has approved (September 2009) continuation funding in order that
the outstanding resources, environment and support for Loughborough students
will continue. External funding is
being sought to extend the work of the sigma-hub network.
C.L.Robinson, Director