University of Brighton Annual Conference

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University of Brighton Annual Conference Learning
and real life what place for a campus based
university in the 21st Century?
Dr Liz Beaty, Director Strategic Academic
Practice and Partnership
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Overview

• The Agenda for HE
• Learning and teaching methods
• Challenges for a new university of the 21st
  Century.

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The Higher Education Agenda

• Widening participation
• Employer engagement
• Personal learning environments
• Sustainability
• Local and Global Communities

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Learning and Teaching

• Course design
• Separation of content and process
• Partnership developments
• New academic teams
• Lifelong Learning
• Experiential
• Work based
• APEL and CPD
• Intensive f2f plus distance learning
• What do we mean by blended learning?
• E and mobile learning
• Individuals, groups and tutors
• Learning materials and communication
• Feedback and assessment

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The agenda for UoC

• Opening Doors and Transforming Lives
• Working in Partnership
• Cumbria and beyond

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UoC Learning methods for the future

• Situated and distributed campus development
• Flexible and distributed learning
• Widening participation

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Carlisle
Lillyhall
Newton Rigg
Ambleside
Kendal
Furness
Lancaster
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Getting together can be difficult!
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UoC Learning methods for the future

• In Partnership with employers and providers
• Campus
• Workplace
• Individualised

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In Partnership

• Carlisle College
• Kendal College
• Furness College
• Lakes College
• Private Training Companies
• Cumbria Higher Learning LLN

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The great outdoors
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The public Sector is the largest employer
TDA NHS County and Local Councils
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Current Developments

• Institute of Policing

• Stobart have sponsored a Chair in Logistics at
  UoC.

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Nuclear engineering

• Sellafield
• BAE systems
• NDA

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Campus Workplace Home
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Regeneration

• A university of the 21st Century has a
  responsibility to enrich the lives of the
  locality.

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Sustainability and Global Citizenship
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Challenges to HE

• Lifelong learning
• Quality of standards and experience
• Authority and judgement
• Outcomes for individual and for society
• Capital investment and recurrent funding
• Sustainability in competitive times

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Future Challenge a University for the 21st
Century

• For everyone
• available anywhere
• integrated with work, home, leisure
• an active part of communities
• Leading intelligent development
• personal, social, economic and cultural.