2010/11

CELT Support team:

Professor Stuart Brand

Luke Millard

Rebecca Freeman

Paul Chapman

Generating the Learning Community

Why?

• Institutional context – NSS/SES

• Changing national context

• Co-creation of learning experience

How?

• Partnership with Students’ Union

• SAP and other engagement activities (BoS, Student rep training, FE and transition)

How did we get to this point?

• Institutional support – Directorate and Senate

• Funding from CELT

• Building on best practice

– CBS student assistants’ scheme– CBS student assistants’ scheme

– NW Missouri State

– Pittsburgh research

Your role

• Partnership

• Employment and studies

• Change agents – new ways of working

• Student voice in academic development• Student voice in academic development

• Advice on further development

• More than the sum of the parts – a cohort

• Evaluation and dissemination

Support

• Cohort (tell us)

• CELT

• Rebecca Freeman coordinate evaluation and support

activitiesactivities

• Paul Chapman coordinate finance

• Cohort events to show progress and share successes

• Project plan – brief plan to be submitted by 26th

November 2010

– Get started

Brief project planTimeline and staff/student roles

Month

Staff Student

November Staff and student meet and attend Mahara training (as required).

December Staff and student prepare exemplar material – both personal profile and

content-led ‘views’.

Liaise with CELT/CICT to resolve technical issues.

January/February Staff provide content in form of 7

lectures.

Student demos the creation of a

personal profile at the start of the

module; provides drop-in surgeries to module; provides drop-in surgeries to

assist students with profile.

February/March Staff provide direction in the form of

group crits.

Student demos the creation of

content-led ‘views’; provides drop-in

surgeries to assist students.

April/May Staff and student review module and design evaluation material.

Student carries out

questionnaires/focus groups with

cohort to evaluate student response to

the use of the software.

Staff and student develop and communicate recommendations for future use as

patchwork assessment, supported by Mahara, is rolled out to other courses.

Project support and evaluation

• Visits to faculties/departments

• At least one visit per project

• Rebecca, Stuart, Luke, Paul

• Meet separately with students and staff where possible

• Offer support

Short interview as part of the evaluation of the scheme• Short interview as part of the evaluation of the scheme

o Inform future development of the scheme

o Find out what how you are getting on

Project support and evaluation

• Blog www.studentacademicpartners.co.uk

• We will keep the blog regularly updated

• Opportunity to share resources

• Opportunities for training / workshops

• Further instructions will be sent so you are able to

update your own blogupdate your own blog

• Expect regular progress reports on the blog - minimum

once a month

o We know how you’re getting on

o Others can learn from your project – offer support

Project support and evaluation

• Workshop sessions

• ‘Show and tell’ and evaluation activity

• Your ideas

• Offer support

• Share resources

Compulsory to attend at least two sessions • Compulsory to attend at least two sessions

• 25th January 2011

• 18th March 2011

• 8th April 2011

• 1st June 2011

Project support and evaluation

• Project reporting – brief reflection on outcomes and

experiences of students and staff on your project

• End of year summary

• Share any artefacts with us for dissemination

• Think about publications, dissemination opportunities

BCU Learning and Teaching Festival Summer 2011• BCU Learning and Teaching Festival Summer 2011

• Student Learning and Teaching Network membership

www.studentlandtnetwork.ning.com

The Important Bit: Getting Paid!

• You will be employed by the Students’ Union

• Maximum of 125 hours at £10 per hour per project

• Payment subject to Tax and National Insurance contributions

• Eligibility to work in the UK alongside your studies

• 2 Forms: New Starter Form & P45 or P46

• Identification: Copy of Passport (Inc. Visa)

Eligibility to work

• UK Citizens:

– No restrictions

• Non-UK Citizens: • Non-UK Citizens:

– Visa dependant: 10 or 20 hours per week max

– You will still need a National Insurance number and a

UK bank account

• Both categories will need to provide ID evidence

Timesheets

• To be done electronically via email

• Complete your timesheet weekly

– Tax & NI increase the more hours you claim

• E-mail your ‘hours’ to your staff academic • E-mail your ‘hours’ to your staff academic

partner

• Staff partner to then email:

kelly.bartlett@bcu.ac.uk

• Email will be taken as authorisation

Timesheets

• Payments are processed weekly

• Timesheets that are submitted by 5pm on a

Monday will be paid on the Friday of that

week. week.

• Any later and your payment may not be

processed until the following week.

Please Claim!

Why?

• To share out resources

• Financial monitoring

• To fund other activity• To fund other activity

• Progress reporting

• This is employment therefore you get paid!

We will chase but we’d rather not!

Further information

www.birminghamcitysu.com/saps/howtogetpaid

Contacts

Professor Stuart Brand, Director of Learning and Teaching stuart.brand@bcu.ac.uk

Luke Millard, Head of Learning Partnerships and SAP co-ordinator luke.millard@bcu.ac.uk

Rebecca Freeman, CELT researcher, Evaluation lead rebecca.freeman@bcu.ac.uk

Paul Chapman, Membership Engagement Manager, Students’ Union and Finance support paul.chapman@bcu.ac.uk