Sigma prize for Shazia and Sarah
Published: 4 July 2014
Shazia Ahmed and Sarah Honeychurch have won the 2014 Sigma Innovation of the Year award. It is awarded to a project that has made a significant and demonstrable difference to mathematics/statistics support at its home institution.
Shazia Ahmed (Academic Development Unit) and Sarah Honeychurch (Learning Technology Unit) have won the 2014 Sigma Innovation of the Year award.
The Innovation of the Year prize is awarded to a project that has made a significant and demonstrable difference to mathematics/statistics support at its home institution. In addition, the initiative has the potential to be replicated or developed at other institutions.
The organisers said that in the case of the winning innovation, Shazia Ahmed and Sarah Waterhouse had developed, moderated and evaluated an innovative form of Virtual Peer Assisted Learning (VPAL) using Facebook for students at the University of Glasgow.
By providing a place for students to talk and interact, and having minimal but supportive tutor presence, students were encouraged to organise their own study groups and access Student Learning Service support; once established, the groups became virtually self-supporting.
First published: 4 July 2014
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