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Empowering learners to excel in professional life through transformative higher education.
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Empowering learners to excel in professional life through transformative higher education UNIVERSITY OF ULSTERLEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGY2013/14 – 2017/18VISIONGOALTo lead innovation in learning through flexible, inclusive and accessible provisionWe will realise our goal through the following three strategic aims:and enabling aim:To provide a supportive environment, in which innovative approaches to learning, teaching and leadership are encouraged, valued and rewarded, for all staff and students in the University To enhance Ulster’s role as a sector leader for student employability as an integral part of the wider student experience. To provide transformative, high quality, learning experiences through the promotion of meaningful staff student partnerships that engender a shared responsibility To provide appropriate learning opportunities which are flexible, responsive to, and inclusive of, the needs of students, professions, industry and the wider community
Student Engagementimplications for revalidation Roisín Curran
Student Engagement Student engagement is about what a student brings to Higher Education in terms of goals, aspirations, values and beliefs and how these are shaped and mediated by their experience whilst a student. SE is constructed and reconstructed through the lenses of the perceptions and identities held by students and the meaning and sense a student makes of their experiences and interactions. As players in and shapers of the educational context, educators need to foster educationally purposeful SE to support and enable students to learn in constructive and powerful ways and realise their potential in education and society (RAISE 2010). Reference: RAISE (2010) Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student engagement. Available at http://raise-network.ning.com/. Accessed 25 September 2013
Student Engagement (SE) Recent/Current initiatives • SE strategic work stream • CHERP/SU focus groups with students prior to revalidation • HEA funded Students as Partners change programme 2012-2013 • CHERP conference Jan 2013 – Student Engagement: a catalyst for transformative change • HEA/Paul Hamlyn foundation funded What Works? Student Retention & Success Change Programme 2012-2016
Student Engagement (SE) • Institutional reference points • Learning and Teaching Strategy 2013/14-2017/18 • Graduate qualities • Guidelines for first year teaching • Transition policy • Principles of Assessment and Feedback for Learning
Where is this relevant in revalidation/evaluation documentation? • Section B Commentaries • B2.5 Learning, Teaching & Assessment • B2.7 Creativity, innovation & good practice • B2.10.1 Graduate Qualities • B2 10.2 Widening Participation • B4 Modules
Learning & Teaching Strategy/SE linkages (2) Learning & Teaching Strategy/RTN linkages (1)
Research-Teaching Nexusimplications for revalidation Vicky Davies
Research-Teaching Nexus (RTN) • Strand 1 • Pedagogic Research (PR)/Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) capacity building • Strand 2 • Research as inquiry (RAI): comprising Research-informed Teaching (R-IT) and Research-enhanced Learning (R-EL)
Where is this relevant in revalidation/evaluation documentation? • Section B Commentaries • B2.6 Research/scholarship informed teaching and curriculum • B2.7 Creativity, innovation & good practice • Section C Staff & professional development