HELP CETL Pedagogic Research

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HELP CETL Pedagogic Research Development linked
to the HLST Context

• Mark Stone, HELP CETL Director
• Higher Education Learning Partnerships
• Centre for Excellence in Teaching Learning
• m2stone_at_plymouth.ac.uk
• Alison Banks, HELP CETL Fellowship Award Holder
• Plymouth College of Further Education
  m2stone_at_plymouth.ac.uk
• HEA HLST - Pedagogic Research and Development Day
  
• University College, Worcester
• 28th April 2006

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Developing UPC strengths University of Plymouth
Colleges faculty

• Curriculum design, learning-teaching approaches
  and assessment
• Student support
• Facilitating transition
• Creating learning materials and e-learning
  resources
• Professional development
• Evidence based practice
• Strategic planning, quality review and quality
  enhancement mechanisms
• Effective leadership and management

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Capacity building approaches

• Working together to improve the student
  experience by
• developing and recognising staff
• enhancing infrastructure and resources
• supporting regional development employability
• sharing good practice, through
• dissemination
• collaborative research development
• promoting scholarship and research

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Key activity strands

• Staff secondments
• Student involvement
• CPD Fellowship Awards
• Development Activities
• Communities of Practice
• External collaboration
• Dissemination recognition
• Capital programme

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1. Staff secondments

• 4 x College 5 x UPC/ University secondments so
  far
• e.g. Barry Smith Curriculum Area Manager for
  Leisure, Tourism Sport at Cornwall Business
  School within Cornwall College is working as a
  CETL Community of Practice Developer
• College Learning from perspective and experience/s

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2. Student involvement

• Student Union links inc Management Board
• Working with CETL Award holders
• Participation in Development Activity or CoP work
  as paid researchers and evaluators
• Working in publication and dissemination teams
  e.g. targeting the NUS conference or providing
  advice on student friendly dissemination
  strategies

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3. CPD Fellowship Awards

• 20 of the annual budget
• Continuing Professional Development Awards CPD
  lt 3,000
• Fellowship Awards lt 10,000
• 2nd round launched in Feb 2006
• Building a cohort and cadre
• Building from last year
• Other awards

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CPD Awards

• Awards to facilitate academic and support staff
  in work that will enhance their professional
  development
• The majority of the CPD Award should be spent on
  personal development
• Work done should be aligned to CETL Communities
  or Development Activities
• Scope and scale - many CPD awards
• last year were mini Fellowships

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Fellowship Awards

• Enhance the quality of learning and teaching for
  a Subject Forum
• Develop materials or ideas that can be applied by
  colleagues more widely to enhance the student
  experience
• Result in scholarly outcomes including
  publications or conference presentations
• lt 20 of the Fellowship Award should be
  used for personal development

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Alison Banks - Fellowship Award

• Examining the potential for part time FD
  provision in hospitality in the real life work
  place context through employer engagement
  building on the experience of Barry Smith at
  Cornwall College linked to the Blended Learning
  CoP

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4. Development Activities

• Development Activities DAs are work packages
  targeted at taking forward UPCs strategic
  mission
• DA work is planned over a three year period
• Development Activities along with the work of
  CETL Award holders have been grouped within a
  Community of Practice CoP framework
• DA work package leaders will be publicising
  participation opportunities from 2006

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5. Communities of Practice

• The CETL is working to support new and emerging
  communities to research their practices and to
  share disseminate activities learning
  materials within the region and beyond
• The aim is facilitate both groups and networks to
  become more effective physical and virtual
  Communities
• Initial work on technological tools

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HLST Development Activities Communities of
Practice 1

• Collaborative Curriculum Design in Tourism and
  Hospitality A shared development activity
  covering FD and University stage 1/2
  collaborative flexible curriculum design
• HLST HE in FE good practice working with the HEA
  HLST to model HE in FE good practice
• Subject Convener in Sport part of a trial to
  take forward the working of regional partnership
  Subject Forums

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6. External collaboration

• Other CETLs HE in FE Consortia
• HE Academy HEA Subject Centres e.g. HLST /
  Escalate / ADM
• Foundation Degree Forward FDF
• Other national projects e.g. The ESRC
• Enhancing Teaching-Learning Project ETL

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7. Dissemination recognition

• Recognising existing and developing expertise
  excellence
• Building capacity in educational research and
  scholarship
• Facilitating the sharing and dissemination of
  knowledge, experience and outputs
• Use of assistive technology CoPv
• Event contribution and attendance

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Key HELP CETL Contacts

• Chris Smart
• Operations Manager
• cjsmart_at_plymouth.ac.uk
• Antonia Walker Toni
• Educational Research Development
• antonia.walker_at_plymouth.ac.uk
• Nick Davy Barry Smith
• Community of Practice Developers
• nrdavy_at_hotmail.co.uk / barry.smith_at_cornwall.ac.uk