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Dr Tansy Jessop SEED Research Meeting 14 February 201 4. Student Engaged Educational Development: Mapping SEED Research at Winchester. What is SEED Research?. Students engaging with educational development and quality enhancement Engagement in educational evaluation
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Dr Tansy Jessop SEED Research Meeting 14 February 2014 Student Engaged Educational Development: Mapping SEED Research at Winchester
What is SEED Research? • Students engaging with educational development and quality enhancement • Engagement in educational evaluation • Engagement in enhancement research • Engagement as change agents • Engagement in curriculum redesign Issues: how to involve students in the improvement of courses and teaching; how to set up partnerships between staff and students
Mapping SEED Research and Enhancement: Complex and diverse Student Union research and enhancement Student Fellow Scheme: 54 Student Fellows, 30 projects Internal and externally funded L&T projects Faculty priority research & enhancement Institutional priority research and enhancement Individual academic/student research Professional Services research – IT, QA, Library, Student services
Questions • How much of the activity is to do with educational development? • How do we define educational development? • How broadly do we define educational development? • “a term that tends to be reserved for the activity undertaken by those staff who specialise in enhancing learning and teaching” Leadership Foundation
Kinds of student engagement Students doing research/evaluation/enhancement of learning and teaching: • with staff • for staff • on staff-led projects • on student-led projects • with the student union • for the faculty
Student Roles • Informants • Representatives • Participants • Researchers • Specialists • Student ‘voice’, student ‘ears’, student ‘minds’ • Innovators • Influencers
Mapping SEED research: Blogging on BA Primary (Fastech) Staff driver Research/ evaluation Enhancement Student drivers
Mapping SEED Research: TESTA Staff driver Research/ evaluation Enhancement Student drivers
Mapping SEED Research: Employability HSS Staff driver Research/ evaluation Enhancement Student drivers
Mapping SEED Research: Island of Laputare Staff driver Research/ evaluation Enhancement Student drivers
Dissemination • RKE Conference: April • L&T day : 2 June • SEDA Conference: May in Newcastle • HEA Change Academy on Curriculum • SEED Online Journal: to be launched in June • Other journals?