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Today's events are all about bringing staff
and students together.
We're celebrating the way in which we are innovative
and imaginative about learning and teaching and we're inspired
by the Dragons Den programme on television to think
through how we might fund and encourage academics
and students working together to bring new ideas to the market.
And through the Dragons Den this afternoon they're going
to present to the Dragons opportunities
for imaginative ways of thinking about education.
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Our project is about trying to bridge the gap
between the mathematic skills and the writing skills
of new students at university.
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The project is basically based around a new piece of technology
that just came out at the end
of February that's a credit card sized computer and we're hoping
to create an online resource that will allow people
to access information about it and, hopefully,
help to improve computer science education in the UK.
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We are planning to run a series of knowledge exchange projects
to give students the opportunity to work with industry sectors
and learn new training, new skills, working with things
like eye tracking, coming in on projects that can be run
in one semester to give them a little bit
of financial incentive so that they can work in relevant,
gain relevant experience while working, and also pick up a lot
of new different types of training
and get direct experience with some of the companies
that should help to boost their employability.
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As a student ourselves at this university,
we really like that we spend quite a lot of time searching
for information, and our idea is to just to help students,
but as well produce a tool which answers their needs.
The problem is that a lot of websites are static
and they don't offer user produced content,
they don't offer an ownership to the user, and we want to turn
that around and make it also mobile friendly
and with the potential to develop it into an app
which could be commercialised later down the line.
But at the moment, we want to bid for the pilot project
and see how the students are going to use it,
how they utilise it, and get the stats
from the usage of the website.
Yes, the idea is to have like a one stop shop.
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The overall winner was research assistants,
so well done to them.
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And I think the thing that shone through for me with regard
to the winner was that the Learning Assistant Programme had
looked at the potential commercial applications beyond
the interaction with other university departments,
and that for me was the winning combination.
I was looking for projects where spending our money was going
to make a difference, where we could see that in one
or two years' time the projects would still be sustainable
and would deliver impact for education at Strathclyde.
The resounding success of today was about empowering students
to learn that they can take on a role within the learning
and teaching, just as much as academic colleagues.
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