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Update: Learning Works: Refocusing the Undergraduate Curriculum

Update: Learning Works: Refocusing the Undergraduate Curriculum. Sally Glen Brian Mitchell Paul Travill Ashar Ehsan PV-C Academic Academic Lead: Academic Registrar Director of Marketing Learning Works & Communications

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Update: Learning Works: Refocusing the Undergraduate Curriculum

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  1. Update: Learning Works: Refocusing the Undergraduate Curriculum Sally Glen Brian Mitchell Paul Travill Ashar Ehsan PV-C Academic Academic Lead: Academic Registrar Director of Marketing Learning Works & Communications (Resources) www.wlv.ac.uk

  2. Learning Works: Outcomes: As a result of Learning Works, we will: • Improve student recruitment, retention and progression • Enhance the market attractiveness of our course portfolio • Improve student employability and entrepreneurship • Create space for academics to broaden their portfolio www.wlv.ac.uk

  3. Learning Works: Drivers • Falling applications in face of increased sector-wide demand • Progression and retention below benchmark • Increasing focus on employability • Need to broaden range of activity undertaken by the University www.wlv.ac.uk

  4. Learning Works: Graduate Attributes • Digitally literate • Knowledgeable and enterprising • Global citizenship ILE Refocusing webpage:http://www.wlv.ac.uk/refocus Click on the link to the Communications statement: Learning Works www.wlv.ac.uk

  5. Learning Works: What have we achieved so far? • Module deletions: March/April 2009 • School Proposals: July 2009 • Titles and structures of courses Schools wish to recruit to in September 2010 • 6 Learning outcomes per course • Module titles • PSPB and Collaborative Partners www.wlv.ac.uk

  6. Learning Works:What have we achieved so far? • Statement from Dean: September 2009 • What the School has done to radically reform its curriculum • What the School has done to address problematic modules (poor recruitment, retention, progression, achievement, low student feedback) • Identification of potential core or shared modules across or between Schools • Identification of any assistance the School would like www.wlv.ac.uk

  7. Learning Works:Next Steps: Internal • QASD/ILE work with Schools (design retreats, team and individual meetings, workshops) • Confirmation of academic portfolio for 2010 • Collection of information for UCAS entry online prospectus and undergraduate prospectus • Module Development • Course Validation www.wlv.ac.uk

  8. Learning Works:Next Steps: External • Launch Learning Works to the outside world • External Web presence/PR • Facebook/Twitter profile (feeds) • Special message to Schools/Colleges from VC • Vodcasts/Podcasts on the project • Briefings for Education Partnerships • Devoted pages in prospectuses • Promotional material at UCAS fairs www.wlv.ac.uk

  9. Learning Works: Key Contacts School : Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching (or equivalent) Curriculum issues: Glynis Cousin/Helen Gale ILE Q/A/Process Issues: Alan Weale/Cathy Shaw QASD www.wlv.ac.uk

  10. Learning Works: Outcomes: As a result of Learning Works, we will: • Improve student recruitment, retention and progression • Enhance the market attractiveness of our course portfolio • Improve student employability and entrepreneurship • Create space for academics to broaden their portfolio www.wlv.ac.uk

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