Opening day: Nottingham University Samworth Academy (Mon 7 Sept 2009, mp4, 2:26mins)
In this podcast go behind the scenes at Nottingham University Samworth Academy (NUSA), the UK's first 'university academy'.
Mind your Language (mp4, Thursday 25 June 2009, 65.4MB, 7:01mins)
In this podcast a sneak peek behind the scenes at the Language Centre, a hi-tech language learning facility for everyone; from language students and students in any other discipline, to members of staff from any department or school.
Nursing our hospitals (mp3, 14.5MB, 15:20mins)
In this podcast Professor Paul Crawford from the School of Nursing and Midwifery explains how what he sees as an ailing health system can talk itself back into shape.
The University in Second Life (mp4 Tues 24 March 2009, 87.8MB, 9:52mins)
In this podcast take an exclusive video tour of the University's official island in Second Life with project manager Andy Beggan, just watch how you disembark the hot air balloon!
Special Focus on Special Needs
Placing research at the heart of the school environment – that’s the idea behind a major research centre on special needs.
Engagement in e-learning
Dr. Cynthia White is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Massey University in New Zealand where one of her research interests is Distance education and online learning. In this talk to the e-learning community at Nottingham, Dr White discusses tools and techniques that help teachers, tutors and managers with traditional teaching backgrounds come to grips with e-learning.
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The Brain of the Future
The Graduate School Centre at the University of Nottingham was formally opened on 12th October 2006 by Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University. In this key note speech, Baroness Greenfield considers how humans will communicate and learn in the future, as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, and the pace of change within society becomes ever faster.