4 th July 2002CiLTHE Conference1 CiLTHE Tutor 4 th July 2002CiLTHE Conference2 Fractals, valency and...

4th July 2002 CiLTHE Conference 1

CiLTHE Tutor


Fractals, valency and CiLTHE

• Or, more accurately,• CiLTHE• Fractals• And• Valency


Personal perspective


Students conceptualised

• Targets• Bums on seats• Raw material• Work in progress• A vintage (thanks to Gordon

Inkster!)

• Question: would Enron have gone under if they had had a Gordon Inkster


Graduates as “product”

• What is a Lancaster graduate?• Ambassadors• Alumni

– Sources of funding and goodwill

• What knowledge should they have?• What attitudes do we want them to display?• What experience do we want to provide for

them?


CiLTHE, a revelation

• So many options– A useful definition of education

• So much that I hadn’t understood that was understandable


Examples

• “take the chalk in your left hand and turn 45O to face class.”

• Course structure was always– 20 lectures, 10 tutorials– 8 to a tutorial– CWA 40%, exam 60%– Exam 4 questions out of 9 each with equal

weight


Question

• Have you ever read a book about Universities?

• Probably not


Gleischer formula

• Change requires

• A vision of where you want to be• A mechanism for getting there• A first step

• Multiplicative

• Cannot be undertaken by the frightened or the complacent


CiLTHE is

• A mechanism for getting to where you want to be– Effective and– Efficient Teaching

• It is also a first step


But I haven’t got the time!

Roundabout method of production.


Fractals


Self-similarity

• Everything is like everything else at whatever level you look

• Fashions in teaching sweep the University because no one is really studying what to do

• Lack of diversity is the result


I think we should

• Ensure diversity

• By planning degree schemes• Not only in terms of subject

coverage• But student experience


Valency

• Card game analogy when at school

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Valency

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Course designAssessmentTeaching

methods

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Course design

Learning outcome

s

Teaching methods

Assessment

Staff needsStudent needs


Course designLearning outcome

s

Teaching methods

Assessment

Staff needs

Student needs

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