The HELP CETL an FDF Perspective

1. The HELP CETL an FDF Perspective Mark Stone HELP CETL Director FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

2. Claim for excellence • The HELP CETL is build on an excellent track record of successful HE in FE partnerships that have significantly widened participation while simultaneously maintaining high retention levels FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

3. Claim for excellence: key themes Strong partnerships are built on genuine collaborations in which all the partners can make an effective contribution in areas that matter to them: • Curriculum design, learning-teaching approaches and assessment • Student support • Facilitating transition • Creating learning materials and e-learning resources • Professional development • Evidence based practice • Strategic planning, quality review and quality enhancement mechanisms • Effective leadership and management FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

4. HELP is built on and supportive of • National policy • Regional policy • University of Plymouth institutional strategies • Corporate Plan • Widening Participation Strategy • Learning and Teaching Strategy • Policies on HR, equality, disability, accessibility • University of Plymouth Colleges strategies • staff development • e-learning and curriculum development • quality framework FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

5. Key external links include • HE/HE consortia in Staffordshire & Lancashire • HE Academy [HEA] including: • HLST Subject Centre • Escalate Subject Centre • ADC Subject Centre • Foundation Degree Forward • University of Wisconsin Colleges • ESRC ETL ProjectEnhancing Teaching &Learning FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

6. HELP CETL Vision and Aims • The CETL will enable us to become the national exemplar of excellence in HE in FE provision • CETL funds will facilitate this, allowing us to: • invest heavily in developing HE in FE staff and teaching expertise • provide uniformly high quality student learning opportunities and infrastructure across the region • inspire teaching and learning communities to research their practices and to share & disseminate activities & learning materials within the region and beyond FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

7. Realising the vision The HELP CETL will support/provide: • Fellow and CPD Award holders • Development Activities • National & regional HE in FE Communities of Practice [Cop] • Technical CoP infrastructure incorporating Knowledge Management [KM] FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

8. Enhanced learning experiences Plans based on student views / feedback, focused on: • developing the physical infrastructure • developing a communications infrastructure that will bring students into contact with a greater range of specialist staff; including through video conferencing • actions to develop the range of student support facilities available across the partnership • supporting students though researching the experience of transition • providing more collaboratively developed learning materials FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

9. Subject Forum scheduling FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

10. Rewarding and recognising staff The HELP CETL will: • recognise existing expertise & excellence • reward contributions to CETL developments • build capacity in pedagogic research and scholarship • redress the current problem of providing appropriate rewards and recognition for teachers of HE in FE FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

11. Development Activities & CoPs CETL Development activities will beled by CoPs: A. Infrastructure support B. Subject Forums [x 8] C. Learning Resources D. Student Support Services E. Professional Development F. Research and Dissemination G. Best Practice in Management H. Management, administration and CETL development FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

12. Communities of Practice [CoP] • Built on educational research and development • To meet the HELP CETL aims we need to communicate, share ideas, information and findings • We need to capture and share good practice • Communities are not a solution themselves but can be a very effective means to providing solutions FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

13. HELP CETL CoP types • CoPs will come together in different ways at different times depending on their focus • Three key types of HELP CETL CoP are those based on : • UPC Subject Forums • generic or specific development activities • Fellowship or CPD activities • meta level collaboration or dissemination [including multi-CETL, multi-institutional work] FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

14. What can communities achieve? • Identification of expertise and good practice • Transfer of successful practices • Focused collaboration of experts • Faster learning through the management of knowledge • Development of new knowledge • Coordination of cross-community activities and projects • Independence of geographic boundaries FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice

15. Key Contacts • Mark Stone HELP CETL Director University of Plymouth Teaching Fellow m2stone@plymouth.ac.uk • Jo Matthews HELP CETL Co-Director Deputy Principal and Dean of HE Somerset College of Arts and Technology jo.matthews@somerset.ac.uk • Chris Smart HELP CETL Operations Manger cjsmart@plymouth.ac.uk 01752 238653 FDF national Conference 2005 - Foundation Degrees: Working in Practice