curriculum collaboration: combining strengths to develop student learning. dr amanda tinker and dr...

Curriculum Collaboration: Combining strengths to develop student learning.

Dr Amanda Tinker and Dr Pat HillALDinHE Conference

University of Southampton30 March - 1April 2015

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Overview

• Issues• Examples• Exercise• Round up• Going forward and resources

Context

http://aldinhe-embeddingskills.hud.ac.uk

Successful integration requires collaboration

http://aldinhe-embeddingskills.hud.ac.uk/

Issues of collaboration

• Who initiates the collaboration?• At what stage do discussions take place?• Who is involved in the discussions?• How are ideas communicated?• What context is given?• What degree of involvement?• What level of integration is there?• Who delivers?

Initiator What stage Who isinvolved

Medium Contextgiven

Degreeinvolved

Integration Delivery

Course Team

Programme stage

LD Face to facearranged

Assignment brief Preparation Stand alonegeneral

solo

Course Leader

Curriculum design

Subject staff

Face to facecasual

VLE access Delivery Stand aloneSpecificcohort

observed

Module leader

TermSemester in advance

Library Email Teaching on course

Assessment Outsidecurriculum

Team taught

LD Weeks in advance

Careers Telephone Subject staff issues

Evaluation Within curriculum

Careers/Library/IT

Days in advance

IT staff Student issues

Student Last minute Student No context

Initiator What stage?

Who isInvolved?

Medium Contextgiven

Degreeinvolved


Course Team

Programme stage


Assignment brief

Preparation Stand alonegeneral

solo

Course Leader

Curriculum design

Subject staff

Face to facecasual


observed

Module leader




Team taught

LD Weeks in advance



Careers/Library/IT

Days in advance

IT staff Student issues Within curriculum planned



Medium Contextgiven

Degreeinvolved


Course Team

Programme stage



solo

Course Leader

Curriculum design

Subject staff

Face to facecasual


observed

Module leader




Team taught

LD Weeks in advance



Careers/Library/IT

Days in advance




Medium Contextgiven

Degreeinvolved


Manager Programme stage



solo

Course Leader

Curriculum design

Subject staff

Face to facecasual


observed

Module leader




Team taught

LD Weeks in advance



Careers/Library/IT

Days in advance



Exercise

• Individually, use template to map one or two scenarios using RAG

• In groups discuss:

• what works well (G) • what could be improved (A) • what constitutes a barrier to learning (R)

• Good to be involved quite early on• Being assertive and turning down last minute

requests has worked, as now being consulted for next year

• Now being involved in curriculum design using blended learning – aim to embed through entire institution

• Resources tested and piloted to ensure they can be customised

• Collaborative resources and activities shared through Adobe Connect.

• Ambitious T&L change programme – working with curriculum teams to embed. ‘Top down’ approach can provide useful leverage as LD can be seen as the ‘good cop’ helping to fulfil unrealistic management expectations of subject staff

• Seen as facilitators and collaborators rather than stand alone

Key issues that came from discussion:

• Lack of bodies e.g. 1.4 LD staff for 22,000 students

• Administrative staff organise sessions based on previous timing, not on pedagogic requirements

• There is a lack of joined up thinking• It is hard to build our identity – people

have fixed ideas about who we are and what we do

• We build up individual relationships but if that person goes we have to start again.

Some ways forward?

Be assertiveNetwork with other Uni’s

Make connections

Evaluate impact

Promote your successes

Cultivate a champion in the SLT

Engage student help

Collaborate

Build up knowledge/qualifications

Write/publish

ALDinHE Embedding Web Resource

• Current Research• Generic principles• Embedding Skills?• Progressive Learning

Development• Challenges and Solutions• Embedding Journeys • Case studies, videos,

templates and workshop materialshttp://

aldinhe-embeddingskills.hud.ac.uk




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