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Workshop Developing a (within curriculum) student-centred framework for employability

Workshop Developing a (within curriculum) student-centred framework for employability Sarah Wilson-Medhurst, Principal Lecturer in Learning and Teaching. Workshop focus. The challenges in addressing a strategic approach to employability

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Workshop Developing a (within curriculum) student-centred framework for employability

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  1. Workshop Developing a (within curriculum) student-centred framework for employability Sarah Wilson-Medhurst, Principal Lecturer in Learning and Teaching

  2. Workshop focus • The challenges in addressing a strategic approach to employability • Identification of things that work in implementing an institution action plan • Identifying future developments participants may be considering

  3. Workshop structure • Activity – defining employability • Short presentation – models of employability and Coventry approach • Activity – identifying the implementation challenges • Short presentation/discussion key opportunities offered by Coventry approach, other models/variations • Activity – what approach(s) are suitable for your context, what are they?

  4. Context: The USEM model of employability (Knight and Yorke, 2002, 2004)

  5. The capability envelope (Stephenson & Yorke, 1998; Stephenson, 2001)

  6. An example of institutional employability framework Coventry University Add+vantage scheme

  7. Coventry approach (within curriculum) • Modular, credit bearing - Add+vantage suite of modules • Supporting exploration (UG level 1), review (UG level 2) and demonstration (UG level 3) • All undergraduates, exception accredited health courses • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RXUDJwRhvI&p=91CFEA34CA720BAE • http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/careers/Addvantage/Pages/scheme.aspx

  8. Challenges? What do you suggest?

  9. Challenges? • Space physical and in curriculum • Appropriate ‘delivery’/L&T approaches e.g. Activity Led Learning, PBL (very important from student perspective – own research on student experience) • Buy-in – staff and students • Expertise

  10. Summary of ‘what works’ • Student-centred (they select the add+vantage modules according to interest/need) • Interdisciplinary opportunities provided by add+vantage scheme useful feature to draw on in supporting students in developing their reflective capacity around employability

  11. Summary of ‘what works’ • Interdisciplinary group work particularly effective if supported by appropriate activity design • Example of activity design: group working but marks come from reflection on experience (see Wilson-Medhurst & Turner, 2010)

  12. Future work/research • Guides for tutors – designing effective activities and aligned assignments for promoting reflection in relation to ‘employability’? • For Coventry?: • How to maximise the opportunities for interdisciplinary working presented by the add+vantage scheme in terms student employability development

  13. Other models/variations • Attribute driven and embedded, courses demonstrate where students have opportunity to work towards/develop attributes

  14. References/further reading • Page B (1998) The new capability curriculum at the University of North London. In Stephenson J & Yorke M, eds, Capability and quality in higher education. London: Kogan Page, pp.35-41. • Stephenson J & Yorke M (1998) Creating the conditions for the development of capability. In Stephenson J & Yorke M, eds, Capability and quality in higher education. London: Kogan Page, pp. 193-225. • Stephenson J (1998) The concept of capability and its importance in higher education. In Stephenson J & Yorke M (Eds.) Capability and quality in higher education. London: Kogan Page, pp.1-13. • Stephenson J (2001) Ensuring a holistic approach to work-based learning: the capability envelope. In Boud D & Solomon N, eds, Work-based learning: a new higher education? Buckingham: SRHE and the Open University Press, pp.86-102.

  15. References/further reading • Stephenson J (2001) Ensuring a holistic approach to work-based learning: the capability envelope. In Boud D & Solomon N, eds, Work-based learning: a new higher education? Buckingham: SRHE and the Open University Press, pp.86-102. • Wilson-Medhurst, S., Turner, A. (2010) ‘An evaluation of the impact of ePortfolio supported pedagogic processes on students’ reflective capacity’, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, Special Edition: November. Available [online] http://www.aldinhe.ac.uk/ojs/index.php?journal=jldhe&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=105&path%5B%5D=59 • Yorke M, Knight P, and contributors. (2003) The Undergraduate Curriculum and Employability: a briefing paper, Available [online]http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/resource_database/id248_The_Undergraduate_Curriculum_and_Employability [last accessed 10 April 2011].

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