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Sharing, Collaborating & Community within UPC - what now, what next

Sharing, Collaborating & Community within UPC - what now, what next. Mark Stone, HELP CETL Director Higher Education Learning Partnerships [ HELP ] Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning [ CETL ] m2stone@plymouth.ac.uk

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Sharing, Collaborating & Community within UPC - what now, what next

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  1. Sharing, Collaborating & Community within UPC - what now, what next Mark Stone, HELP CETL Director Higher Education Learning Partnerships [HELP] Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning [CETL] m2stone@plymouth.ac.uk Sharing, Collaborating & Community within UPC - what now, what next, UPC Winter Conference [3rd Birthday Celebration - Reflection, Review and Direction], Plymouth, 8th November xxxxx

  2. UPC as a community context • 15 yrs growth and achievement • Largest HE/FE partnership in UK [19 Colleges & 7,000 HE students] • Excellent quality reviews • Strong student retention & planned progression record • Major Widening Participation successes • Community outputs xxxxx

  3. Sharing, Collaborating & Community within UPC • History • Structures • Relationships • Knowledge and Skills • Resources • Targets and ambitions • Difficulties and constraints • Approaches and tools xxxxx

  4. Communities of Practice [CoP] • Communities are not a solution themselves but can be a very effective means to providing solutions • Community ‘a value laden term’ - not all about agreement and pleasure • Through conversation comes understanding, appreciation and in the case CoP, professional value • Can’t be forced xxxxx

  5. HELP work to develop Knowledge, Individuals & Communities • Staff secondments [Community Developers] • Student involvement • CPD & Fellowship Awards • Development Activities • External collaboration • Communities of Practice • Dissemination & recognition Aspects of an integrated programme xxxxx

  6. 3. CPD & Fellowship Awards • 20% of the annual budget • Continuing Professional Development Awards [CPD] - £3,000 • Fellowship Awards - £10,000 • Building a cohort and cadre • What now what next - other awards and activity xxxxx

  7. CPD Awards • Awards to facilitate academic and support staff in work that will enhance their professional development • The majority of the CPD Award being spent on personal development • Work done is aligned to emerging CETL supported Communities of Practice xxxxx

  8. Fellowship Awards • Enhance the quality of learning and teaching for a Subject Forum • Develop materials or ideas that can be applied by colleagues more widely to enhance the student experience • Result in scholarly outcomes including publications or conference presentations • < 20% of the Fellowship Award should be used for personal development xxxxx

  9. 4. Development Activities • The Development Activities [DAs] are work packages targeted at taking forward the strategic mission of UPC • Development Activities along with the work of CETL Award holders have been grouped within a Community of Practice [CoP] framework • Increasingly originating directly from the CoP xxxxx

  10. 5. External collaboration • Other HE/HE consortia in • HE Academy [HEA] Subject Centres • Foundation Degree Forward • Other national / international projects • Other CETLs - e.g. RLO xxxxx

  11. Linking to the national community • HELP is 1 of 74 Centres with the Aim of: • reward existing excellence in learning & teaching • further developsuch excellence • disseminategood practice within the institution or consortia and nationally • undertake research into how students learn and can best be supported • HEA Subject Centres • FDF / JISC / TechDis xxxxx

  12. 6. Communities of Practice • The CETL is working to support new and emerging communities to research their practices and to share & disseminate activities & learning materials within the region and beyond • The aim is facilitateboth groups and networks to become more effective physical and virtual Communities xxxxx

  13. What can communities achieve? • Identification of expertise and good practice • Transfer of successful practices • Focused collaboration of experts • Faster learning through knowledge management • Development of new knowledge • Coordination of cross-community activities/projects • Independence of geographic boundaries xxxxx

  14. HELP CETL CoP types • CoPs will come together in different ways at different times depending on their focus • Two key types of CoP are those initially based on : • subject connections or • thematic or cross cutting groups or agendas e.g. Work Based Learning xxxxx

  15. Emerging subject & thematic CoPs • HELP CETL Award Holders • Subject Forums [x 8] • Subject Forum Chairs & Conveners • Blended Learning • Work Based Learning • Theory into Practice • UPC Administrators, Staff Developers & HE Coordinators • UPC SU Officers xxxxx

  16. Blended Learning linked CoP work • Collaborative Curriculum Design in Tourismand Hospitality: A shared development activity covering FD and University stage 1/2 collaborative flexible curriculum design • Subject Convener in Sport: part of a trial to take forward the working of regional partnership Subject Forums - e.g. Re-usable Learning Objects xxxxx

  17. Knowledge Management Systems • Design & build • The specification • The available technology • Comparisons • Purchase and customise • Tomoye Ecco • Microsoft SharePoint xxxxx

  18. The UPC Knowledge Exchange • The HELP CETL Knowledge Management System is a tool that is being evolved to support the developmental work of University of Plymouth Colleges (UPC) Faculty at a regional and national level • People, Knowledge & Conversations connected in a Community of Practice Environment xxxxx

  19. Issues in creating & evaluation of the UPC Knowledge Exchange • “What is the Knowledge Exchange” • User training • System accessibility • Testing and evaluation • Expectation management • Justifying & Description of the Community • Community support and leadership xxxxx

  20. Issues in creating & evaluation of the UPC Knowledge Exchange • What is knowledge [including tacit] • Repository vs work space • Knowledge Objects • Meta Data • Conversations - role and value • Focus around an activity or task • Responses and encouragement • CoP Developers xxxxx

  21. Issues in creating & evaluation of the UPC Knowledge Exchange • Scalability • Multiple Communities • External collaboration • Discretionary effort • HE Culture • Latest Discussions • Personal Profiles • Understanding community xxxxx

  22. Questions + Plug • HE in FETeaching in HE and FE Questionnaire • After a successful pilot study - a request for further participation • The aim being to develop a greater understanding of the pedagogic approach used by teachers in delivering HE and FE • All answers will be treated with the strictest confidence and will remain anonymous - feedback will be available when the results have been analysed • http://facultyj.hs.plymouth.ac.uk/jpdata/teachingfehe.htm • Sue Rodway-Dyer - HELP CETL Researcher xxxxx

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