student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
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Student Feedback & Leadership<br />
The ART was assisted by two Facilitators from the DSC College <strong>Office</strong><br />
Academic Development Unit as there was no School-based <strong>Learning</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Teaching</strong> expertise within the School. As the project evolved <strong>and</strong> less external<br />
assistance was needed, Facilitator support was reduced to one person.<br />
––<br />
School of Economics, Finance <strong>and</strong> Marketing,<br />
College of Business (Bus).<br />
Four courses were chosen from core first year courses in Business<br />
Statistics, Marketing Principles, Macroeconomics, Prices <strong>and</strong> Markets.<br />
These courses are common to all of the four undergraduate Business<br />
degrees with a total of 1000-1500 <strong>student</strong>s (onshore) per year in lecture<br />
cohorts. The issue chosen was courses with large enrolments.<br />
The ART was assisted by a Facilitator from the central <strong>Learning</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Teaching</strong><br />
Development Unit <strong>and</strong> also had the School <strong>Learning</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Teaching</strong> Director<br />
as the ART Leader.<br />
It was agreed that membership of the ARTs would include interested staff,<br />
teaching <strong>and</strong> learning experts, expert facilitators <strong>and</strong> support staff as shown<br />
in Figure 8.<br />
Figure 8 ART Membership<br />
Experts (Facilitators)<br />
who act as mentors<br />
<strong>and</strong> potentially<br />
provide resources<br />
Interested Staff<br />
Program Leaders / Program<br />
Coordinators, early career<br />
academics who are the trialers<br />
<strong>and</strong> leaders<br />
Support Staff<br />
providing support<br />
T&L Staff<br />
acting as documenters,<br />
supporters <strong>and</strong><br />
resources<br />
The ARTs were supported by small incentive grants to assist their activities.<br />
These grants were administered through the Project Manager <strong>and</strong> allocated<br />
when ARTs had achieved key milestones. This meant that ARTs would retain<br />
ownership of their contribution to the project activities.<br />
ART members later identified this financial resource provision as an important<br />
factor in their active engagement in the project <strong>and</strong> the successful identification<br />
<strong>and</strong> trial of change innovation. It provided the opportunity <strong>for</strong> ART members<br />
to obtain some relief from teaching <strong>and</strong> or marking or provided administrative<br />
assistance to ART members.<br />
The first report from the ARTs to the Project Team occurred in February 2007<br />
with initial progress reported to the March Project Team meeting.<br />
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