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When you say, ‘in the curriculum’, you actually mean ‘on the time-table’, don’t
you?
Opportunities and limitations when supporting transition in the mainstream curriculum.
Steve Rooney and Marta Ulanicka
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A (very) brief introduction
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Our work consists of…
supporting
departments
resource development
peer-assisted learning (PAL)
study consultations
(incl. Maths Help)
central
workshops
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Balance of teaching activities
Central Provision
Departmental Provision
2004 - 2008
2008 - 2012
2000 - 2004
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Drivers, Fuel and Co-travellersDrivers• Demand from students for contextualised academic support • Demand from academic departments to support them in supporting their
students• Team’s commitment to supporting the development of learning across the
institution
Fuel• 3 x full-time Learning Developers (1 post currently vacant)• 1 x 0.3 Learning Developer • 1 x 0.7 Information Specialist
Co-travellers• Academic colleagues in departments• Course Designers and Developers• Librarians• Educational Developers• Learning Technologists
Soon to be more formally aligned
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Some (inconsistent) observations
Interactive and timely workshop or consultation
Module with strong links to formative and
summative assessment and
feedback
Generic, untimely
content-heavy, workshop
Themed transitional skills module (e.g. year
1, semester 1)
Inte
grat
ed?
no
yes
Embedded?yesno
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Activities not always as timely as they might be
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Lecturer A asks for an essay writing workshop in the first week of the autumn term. The
deadline for the submission of the students’ first essay is in January
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sometimes departmental provision comes at a pedagogic cost
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You’ve been assigned 50 mins. to ‘teach’ presentation skills to a group of 80 students.
The venue is a tiered lecture theatre
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provision might remain separated from relevant assessment and feedback processes
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The assessment for module X (on writing development) consists of one summative
assignment
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pressure on resources and impact on sustainability
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In year 1, department B asks you to run two workshops. In year 2 this rises to 4 and in year 3
requests for 8 sessions are made (meanwhile demand from other departments is growing,
too)
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Over to you (1)
How have you sought, or how might you seek to address and overcome these, and other, challenges in your own interactions with academic departments?
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Feedback
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Over to you (2)
Have a look at the examples we’ve brought along and:
1) raise any questions you have2) comment on any experiences you have had of
trying similar approaches3) discuss any concerns, risks, limitations you
perceive
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Steve RooneyLearning Development Manager, University of Leicester [email protected] estebanrooney
Marta UlanickaLearning Development Adviser, University of Leicester [email protected] marta_u