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CiLTHE Tutor

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Fractals, valency and CiLTHE

• Or, more accurately,• CiLTHE• Fractals• And• Valency

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Personal perspective

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Students conceptualised

• Targets• Bums on seats• Raw material• Work in progress• A vintage (thanks to Gordon

Inkster!)

• Question: would Enron have gone under if they had had a Gordon Inkster

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Graduates as “product”

• What is a Lancaster graduate?• Ambassadors• Alumni

– Sources of funding and goodwill

• What knowledge should they have?• What attitudes do we want them to display?• What experience do we want to provide for

them?

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CiLTHE, a revelation

• So many options– A useful definition of education

• So much that I hadn’t understood that was understandable

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Examples

• “take the chalk in your left hand and turn 45O to face class.”

• Course structure was always– 20 lectures, 10 tutorials– 8 to a tutorial– CWA 40%, exam 60%– Exam 4 questions out of 9 each with equal

weight

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Question

• Have you ever read a book about Universities?

• Probably not

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Gleischer formula

• Change requires

• A vision of where you want to be• A mechanism for getting there• A first step

• Multiplicative

• Cannot be undertaken by the frightened or the complacent

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CiLTHE is

• A mechanism for getting to where you want to be– Effective and– Efficient Teaching

• It is also a first step

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But I haven’t got the time!

Roundabout method of production.

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Fractals

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Fractals

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Fractals

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Self-similarity

• Everything is like everything else at whatever level you look

• Fashions in teaching sweep the University because no one is really studying what to do

• Lack of diversity is the result

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I think we should

• Ensure diversity

• By planning degree schemes• Not only in terms of subject

coverage• But student experience

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Valency

• Card game analogy when at school

O

C

O

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Valency

C

H

H

H

H

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Course designAssessmentTeaching

methods

Learning outcome

s Staff needsStudent needs

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Course design

Learning outcome

s

Teaching methods

Assessment

Staff needsStudent needs

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Course designLearning outcome

s

Teaching methods

Assessment

Staff needs

Student needs