Learn Something New in 20 Minutes:
Bite-Size Sessions for Research,
Teaching and Collaboration
Andy Tattersall, Dr Jenny Freeman, Claire Beecroft, Uzzie Potgieter
What is Bite Size?
Nowadays the environment in universities and other large knowledge organisations is
increasingly pressurised with busy staff finding it increasingly difficult to make time for
training, even when it might enhance their role and enable them to work more
efficiently. We have pioneered a smart, innovative, minimal-cost solution that
encourages staff to engage with new technologies and techniques that have the
potential to enhance their skills as researchers and lecturers..
It is based on one very simple idea: whilst individuals may not be able to spend hours
training, they can spare 20 minutes during the mid-afternoon for a quick coffee break.
Bite Size for Research
Bite Size for Teaching
Maintaining your Research Grant
How Not to Display Data
Research Professional
Video Recording
Mendeley
SCIRUS
REF
Wikis
Medline
Google Apps
Social Media
Cloud Computing
Data and Copyright
Mobile Phone Apps for Research
Assessment Methods
Lecture Capture
PhD Supervision
Online Marking
Voice Works
Pebblepad
Plagiarism
Prezi
Podcasting
MOLE – VLE
Online Supervision
Supporting Students
Interactive Whiteboards
Dissertation Supervision
The Bite Size Formula
They are good, quick intro to a
new tool. Because they're given in
person you have the chance to ask
questions. I like the social (cake
and tea) aspect of it. meeting
other colleagues you might not
know
Audience
Short,
focused,
interactive,
entertaining
Feedback
handouts
It's short,
there is cake,
and if the topic isn't of
immediate use to you
then you don't feel
like you have wasted
time learning about it.
I really like dipping
into a topic I would
otherwise not have
learnt about.
Great idea, like the cakes, wish I'd
thought of it, but reassured to see
that it is genuinely not easy to get
researchers to take time out.
54 respondents (25% of staff approx.)
Contact:
a.tattersall@sheffield.ac.uk (Bite Size for Research) j.v.freeman@sheffield.ac.uk (Bite Size for Teaching)
Bite Size: https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/bite-size/
Bite Size videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/scharrvids/featured