Student engagement with PDP: developing the discourse'

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Student engagement with PDP developing the
discourse.

• Paul Jackson University of Leicester

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The Challenge

• the student experience of PDP
• clarify the messages staff wish to convey about
  the nature and relevance of PDP
• how these might be conveyed to students
• developing practice and ideas that can be taken
  forward by the Forum.

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Methodology

• Guidelines
• Institutional Policy and Practice
• Hoodies and Anoraks
• Personal Journey
• The method
• Sampling stakeholders/one take/pre-warned about
  learning !

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The Stakeholders

• 1st Year Students
• 3rd Year Students
• Postgraduate
• High School Student
• P.T. Returner to Study

• Employer
• Graduate Engineer
• Graduate Trainee
• University Teaching Technician /Demonstrator

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PDP a reality

• Talking Heads

• Questions

• Viewing the Clip.

• What are the messages you are hearing (for
  student engagement )
• What would you want to say to them?
• How?

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Some Questions

• Visible vs Invisible
• Compulsion vs Voluntary
• Embedded vs Stand Alone
• Structure d vs Free Format
• On-line vs Hardcopy vs Person to
  Person

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From some research

• Purpose
• Communication
• Delivery

• Communication
• Concepts
• Discussion
• Explaining, what?, why? how?
• Importance
• Interaction with tutor
• Communication with staff

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Some Reflections

• It is everywhere
• Whats in a name
• Talking about learning
• Feedback to teaching!
• The e thing
• It is valued where it has purpose and is a
  meaningful process

• The non graduate job workplace/P.T. learners
• The vast scope of approach
• It is not 2005 expectations of past experience
  and future experience

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Concluding Thoughts

• What are the implications
• For your PDP practice
• Institutional Practice

• Actions
• For the forum