1. Dynamic Learning Maps for Geography Simon Cotterill^, Steve Juggins*, Alison Williams*,Alex Jeffrey*, David Fairbairn +, Steve Ball^, John Peterson^, Tony McDonald^, Gordon Skelly^. * School of Geography, Politics & Sociology (GPS), HASS + Civil Engineering & Geosciences (CEG), SAgE ^ School of Medical Sciences Education Development (MSED), FMS

2. Background JISC funded ‘Dynamic Learning Maps’ project Evaluated in Medicine, Psychology & Speech Therapy Curriculum Maps Personal learning (links to ePortfolio) Different views: – Mind Maps – Hierarchical text – Lists

3. Initial interfaces & user preferences Text-based interface Mind-map style interface Forthcoming focus groups: explore options e.g. colour coding terminology e.g. ‘nodes’ or topics

5. Aims To further embed reflection and personal development planning in the curriculum. Helping students to be better informed about module selection – clearly showing pre-requisites / requirements, and potential career paths. Improving ‘cross-modular’ learning and teaching of research methods and techniques across the curriculum. Evaluate and disseminate use and applicability of DLM in non-health related contexts.

6. Mapping Work Linked in SAP and MOFs data into Curriculum maps

7. Mapping Specialties, Skills & Careers Geography specialties / sub-specialties – Map to modules Graduate Skills Framework Careers – Map to skills, specialties & modules

8. Search

9. External Resources Linked to topics + Search

10. Evaluation (planned) January 2012 – Evaluation with Stage 2 students February 2012 – Evaluation with Stage 3 students – Presentation to BOS / feedback Post module selection

11. Further Information http://learning-maps.ncl.ac.uk Simon.Cotterill@ncl.ac.uk