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Blending Teaching & Learning Environments
Socially Distanced Teaching
The Academic Development Team is offering a range of workshops and resources to help you build your confidence and develop your practice in responding to the challenges we face in this pandemic. The workshops are informed by the CU Teaching and Learning Design Values and Principles.
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THEME ONE | Creating Socially Engaging Spaces (Online Communities): How to create communities where students feel welcome to engage to solve contemporary problems or issues.
THEME TWO | Strategies for Socially Distanced Teaching & Learning (Blending the Educational Experience): Delivering socially distanced teaching and the potential to blend campus-based with online delivery.
THEME THREE | Creating Active Learning Environments (AULA and Beyond): Designing activities that enable students to actively engage in applied, social and in an inclusive manner, with learning.
Academic Development Website
New Assessment Design Toolkit
The Academic Development website has a new Assessment Design Toolkit section. You will be able to explore the stages representing the Assessment lifecycle, informed by a pedagogic model driving a holistic approach to assessment design and implementation.
Each stage represents a phase in the lifecycle with embedded links introducing the key principles and guidance to inform your practice. All guidance has been designed in line with the requirements of the CU Assessment Strategy with the aim of ensuring an equal experience for all students, allowing them to best evidence their learning gain.
Feedback CU Essential Staff Development Survey
Many thanks to those of you who have completed the Staff Development Survey as part of the Essentials course on The Coventry Way: Understanding your role in supporting teaching and learning.
The survey highlighted some key areas where people need, or would like, some further personal development.
- Knowledge transfer: a large number of academic staff expressed an interest in how to get involved in knowledge transfer outside of the university.
- HEA: two thirds of academic staff wanted to know more about gaining Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
- COIL: as physical student mobility is going to be more difficult going forward the use of Collaborative Online Learning (COIL) is going to be an essential way of developing students’ cultural competence. Staff highlighted this as an area where they need more information.
- Digital: staff would also like more support on using digital technologies and working in the digital world.
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- CQEM: over a third of academic staff were not confident of how they could contribute to the CQEM process.
- Assessment: staff wanted to know more about “inclusive assessment” and “developing students’ assessment literacy”.
- Research: a significant number of staff wanted to know more about research opportunities.
In this page you can find resources for each item.
Martin Jenkins (Head of Academic Development)
Advance HE
New Online External Examining Training
In November we will be launching the new online External Examining Training, accredited by Advance HE to certificate external examiners. It is suitable for both existing and aspiring external examiners.
The provision of external examiner Training now includes a range of delivery options appropriate to a rapidly changing environment:
- the blended Professional Development Course (PDC);
- the online PDC;
- the Develop the Developer programme (blended);
- the Develop the Developer programme (remote version);
- a new accelerated online route through the Develop the Developer programme using the online PDC;
- the integrated subject-based PDC (including calibration activity);
- and a new stand-alone model for calibration activity.
Future arrangements
The Office for Students and the devolved nations involved are considering a strategy for the sustainability of the provision after the funded project is due to end in July 2021. Future arrangements for the oversight, management and delivery of the professional development provision will be determined in 2021. We will keep you posted on developments.
Should you have any feedback or comment, please get in touch via email to external-examining@advance-he.ac.uk.
Susan Bray (Academic Developer - Professional Recognition)
Peter Harrison (Academic Developer - Internationalisation)
Academic Professional Development | Resources
Using Aula for Active Learning
This a 'show and tell' of good examples of how Aula is used by FAH staff across the three Schools. The examples will also show how Aula is used as a springboard to other online interactive spaces.
Claire Simmons (Academic Developer for FAH)
Coventry University Framework for Professional Accreditation
CUFPA – Case Study
As an assessor for the Coventry submissions to the various fellowship levels of the HEA I have had the privilege of reading some exceptional applications that demonstrate to me the high level of engagement that we hold dear to providing the very best student experience.
My name is Dr Jason Jordan and I am Deputy Head of School for Energy, Construction & Environment in the Faculty of Engineering, Environment & Computing. I am an Associate Professor in Physical Geography whose research and teaching interests lie in past present and future climate change, global sea level change and tsunami hazard. I have worked at Coventry since 2006 and have previously been a Course Director and Associate Head of Student Experience.
When did you get your SFHEA? I was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018.
What do you learn from your experience as an assessor? As an assessor for the Coventry submissions to the various fellowship levels of the HEA I have had the privilege of reading some exceptional applications that demonstrate to me the high level of engagement that we hold dear to providing the very best student experience. As an institution we aim to be the best and the level of staff development and support that we encourage and see on a daily basis from our staff at every level across the University is exceptional. Staff supporting each other, staff supporting students and indeed the move towards mentoring and student led peer to peer support is fantastic to see. Staff are using new methods to encourage engagement and feedback and feedforward in all aspects of course design and implementation that I find incredibly encouraging. We have students at the very heart of what we do, and this is always evident in the applications for fellowship to the HEA.
Academic Development: team update
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Welcome We would like to welcome Adriana Ortiz as the new 0.5 Academic Developer for the Faculty of Engineering, Environment & Computing (EEC). |
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