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National Teaching Fellows 2012 Dr Ayona Silva-Fletcher Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Education, LIVE centre The Royal Veterinary College Dr Ayona Silva-Fletcher first qualified as a veterinarian, followed by a PhD in Animal Nutrition at Aberdeen University and 25 years later an MA in Medical Education. She spent several years working in a wide variety of academic and research environments in the UK, Europe, and Sri Lanka, and international projects involving Denmark, Sweden, Thailand, Bangladesh, South Africa and US. It is this exposure to different disciplines, academic environments and cultural differences that has shaped her outlook on academic outreach for both students and fellow colleagues. During her time at the RVC, Ayona has had a major impact on the postgraduate distance learning programme, which is now a reinvigorated and successful high quality educational programme. She placed greater emphasis on student experience and motivation for those studying from a distance. The introduction of the virtual learning environment, with access to the RVC intranet and online library so that the distance students are included in the wider RVC community, is one of the major changes that she achieved. The diligent management of student feedback, and a tutor training programme to ensure that the feedback is appropriate and valuable to a veterinarian studying from a remote hill farm either in Australia or Africa, was one of her accomplishments. Ayona is one of the rare individuals in universities that have been referred to as ‘a boundary transgressor’. She has considerable experience of all matters relating to education, both in terms of curriculum design and delivery, and quality assurance processes, from, as a veterinarian, a discipline focus as well as a more generic educational perspective. She is committed to exploring the scholarship of teaching and learning and to persuade and support her colleagues to do the same. The development of the postgraduate programme in Veterinary Education is a result of this dedication. Through the development of an HEA-accredited postgraduate certificate she has offered discipline-specific training for the veterinary and para-veterinary sector educators and has recently widened access to veterinary educators globally by offering the programme by distance learning. 50
Brian Smith Head of Technology Enhanced Learning Edge Hill University Following his successes in completing a BSc (Hons) in Organisation and Management Studies, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education and a Masters in E-learning, Brian Smith has strengthened his academic career further by becoming a leading specialist in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. His dynamic leadership and creative flair for developing pedagogical innovations include synchronous teaching, using 3D virtual worlds and mobile devices to augment student learning - topics at the centre of his doctorate studies. The advent of the Internet, mobile devices and smart-phone technologies has liberated him from his ‘garage laboratory’, leading to the creation of a pioneering Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Unit at Edge Hill University, where his creativity has been unleashed. Brian’s teaching and learning ‘Apps’ have had a huge influence on students, health workers in their professional ‘on the job’ development, and his university colleagues. Brian has a clear rationale – to engage, interest and motivate students through authentic experiences, using technology to add value to face-to-face opportunities, which can be hard to access and limited in quality. He was, and still is, a strong proponent of planned strategies to create opportunities for deep learning. This is what Brian’s students and colleagues say they get from him and why they say he is special. Brian is also a good researcher, committed to evidence-based practices, and he subjects all of his work to rigorous reflection and evaluation. This reflection, through his focus on access to learning from the workplace, led to the advent of the Mode Neutral approach, which gained influence in health teaching circles and attention from the HEFCE and the national press. A desire for a personalised offer, based on choice and matched to work circumstances and geographical location, resulted in a curriculum design and delivery which facilitates access to combinations of face-to-face, synchronous online and asynchronous ways for students to engage. Brian’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor said: “Brian truly puts the ‘E’ into technology enhanced learning in ways that only the best teachers and cutting-edge learning technologists can.” 51
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