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Learning, teaching, research: visions for the post 2012 era

Learning, teaching, research: visions for the post 2012 era. Liz Barnes Academic Practice Programme. Session Outcomes. You will be familiar with the White Paper You will have a critical awareness of the impact of the paper on universities and your practice

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Learning, teaching, research: visions for the post 2012 era

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  1. Learning, teaching, research: visions for the post 2012 era Liz Barnes Academic Practice Programme

  2. Session Outcomes • You will be familiar with the White Paper • You will have a critical awareness of the impact of the paper on universities and your practice • You will be able to critically review curricula design and learning teaching and assessment strategies to respond to national context and policies • You will be able to design bespoke fit for purpose curricula for a range of specialist fields • You will be able to assess the appropriateness of learning teaching and assessment strategies to support individual student progression

  3. Higher Education Students at the Heart of the System • Sustainable and fair funding • Well-informed students driving teaching excellence • A better student experience and better-qualified graduates • A diverse and responsive sector • Improved social mobility through fairer access • A new fit-for purpose regulatory framework

  4. Academic experience at English Universities - 2012 • ‘only countenance an increase in fees if universities could demonstrate what additional benefits students would receive from any increases’ Willetts 2009 • Providing information does not address policy points that have emerged in surveys

  5. Main findings • Contact time – average 13.9 (14.2 in 2007) • Fewer than 8 hours, more than 25 hours - high levels of dissatisfaction • Least contact time – more private study. Business studies and mass communications lowest contact time and lowest private study. • Private study average 14.4 (12.7 in 2007) • Total workload 27.2 hours (2007 25.5), mass communications 20.1 hours • English degrees shorter & require less study (other than USA & Canada) • More time spent studying in old universities – contact & non-contact • Smaller classes in post 92 & taught by academic staff • Value for money improving but decreased in 2007 with top up fees • No relationship – NSS and contact and study time • No real changes in provision when top up fees introduced • Students working a little harder but no increase in contact time or change in group sizes

  6. Higher Education Academy ‘What best predicts educational gain is measures of educational process …. Class size, the level of student effort and engagement, who undertakes the teaching, and the quantity and quality of feedback to students on their work are all valid process indicators.’

  7. KIS data sets • http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/Subjects/Overview/10007851-28

  8. Impact on learning & teaching • Learning time • Contact time • Independent study • Value for money • Class size • Contact with tutor • Quality of teaching • Feedback & feedforward • Employability

  9. Seven principles of good practice in UG education • GP encourages student-faculty contact • GP encourages cooperation among students • GP encourages active learning • GP gives prompt feedback • GP emphasizes time on task • GP communicates high expectations • GP respects diverse talents & ways of learning Chickering and Gamson 1987

  10. Teaching in the 21st century • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTIBDR4Dn2g

  11. Curriculum Designkey components • Balance contact v independent study • Informal learning • Quality of teaching • Variety of learning and teaching strategies • Progression towards autonomous learner • Assessment strategy • PDP • Employability • Challenge • Research??

  12. Programme Design • BSc Sport Science • MSc Anaesthesia/Orthopaedics/Burns & plastics • FD Leadership and Management • MSc Sports Therapy • FD Initial Police Training • FD Early Years Education

  13. References • BIS 2011. Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System. • HEPI report summary 54. 2011 Higher education: students at the heart of the system – an analysis of the higher education white paper. • HEPI report summary 57. 2012 The academic experience of students at English universities – 2012 report. • Gibbs, G. 2010 G. Dimensions of Quality. HEA • Chickering, A.W, & Gamson, Z.F. Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education, WI:The Johnson Foundation inc.

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