RESEARCH LED LEARNING AND TEACHING

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RESEARCH LED LEARNING AND TEACHING

• Professor Nigel Palastanga
• PVC Learning and Teaching

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MERGER ISSUE- what is Research Led Learning and
Teaching?

• Caused heated discussion
• 2. Many different views of what it meant
• Registry produced a paper to explain it
• 4. Even more disagreement

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So what does it mean?

• IS IT
• Research led?
• Curricular content research driven
• Research Oriented?
• Understanding research process skills
• Research Based?
• Curriculum inquiry based activities
• Research Informed?
• Inquiry into learning process itself

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No Answer

• Purpose of today is to explore the issue and seek
  some understanding
• Wonder whether we will achieve this!

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A Guide to Research Evidence on Teaching-Research
Relations.

• Alan Jenkins commissioned by HEA
• Only considered impact of discipline based
  research on LT
• Did not consider research into LT itself
• Looked at published research on the relationship
  affecting the individual, department,
  discipline, institution, national system.
  www.heacademy.ac.uk

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Structure of the Day

• Andy Lloyd to introduce session
• Michael Whitby to present the Warwick view
• Nicky Phillips and Stephen Knight to present some
  Cardiff views
• Small group breakout sessions (dont leave!)
• Plenary session

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Learning Outcomes

• Hopefully we will all learn something but as we
  are all coming from different starting points
  and all have our own ideas
• Everybody will get something from today Andy
  will try to capture it
• Most important - enjoy the day