Holiday Job Opportunity

STUDENTS AS CREATORS AND CHANGE AGENTS PROJECT: REDESIGNING THE LEVEL 1 BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT CURRICULUM

Opportunity for 10 days paid project work in the Easter break for 4 students (with follow up as an Excel whole summer project to one successful candidate)

How would you like to help us design the structure and content of 4 new level 1 Business modules? You will be working with a small team of staff and fellow students on such tasks as

     Drawing upon published research into contemporary online/offline learning styles and school leaver expectations of university study

·       Collecting the viewpoints of your colleagues who have experienced level 1 study, on what they liked/disliked, would like more/less of.

·       Based on the above, proposing and testing ideas for possible structures/focus/content of the new modules

·       Developing digital aids to effective study, for example beginner guides to blogging and tweeting, tools for storing, managing and evaluating online information, use of curation tools such as Pinterest and Spotify, creating and editing video using free tools, editing Wikipedia etc

·       Developing interactive exercises for class completion/discussion (as per MOOCs)

 To apply, please email your brief CV to l.j.harris@soton.ac.uk or m.gatenby@soton.ac.uk with a covering note (250 words max) describing your digital literacy skills and how you might best apply them within this project.

 Key dates:

Closing date for applications                        6^th March 2015

Interviews                                                 13^th March 2015

Initial project team meeting                         19^th March 2015

Phase 1 project period                                23^rd March  – 17^th April

Phase 2 of the project will run from July – September 2015