LTAG Monitoring: January 2015

The following is an extract from the monitoring report we present to UCS's Learning, Teaching and Assessment Group

Strategic Priority: 1: To fully embed the use of technology enhanced learning (TEL) in teaching, learning and assessment practices

It is proposed that this will continue in three key ways:

• At the course team level to work more proactively with course teams through team developments in order to explore and deploy technology enhanced learning opportunities within teaching, learning and assessment models. In particular, working closely with course team validation and approval processes
• At the individual level, expand our offering to staff and students for just in time support and development around innovative uses of TEL. In particular, the expansion of the Elevate Team led UCS digital literacy programme
• On media literacies to expand our offering of audio-visual services to staff wishing to effectively incorporate multimedia within their teaching activities/materials.

Progress Report

Institution Level

• Elevate Team are now part of Learning Services.
• Started the LearnUCS (VLE) Review
• Implementation of recommendations from Electronic Management of Assessments

Department / Course Team Level

Attendance of e-Learning Developers at Course Committee Meetings

Science:

• Project - Understanding Assessment Criteria
• In curriculum - Flipped Model for Study Skills

Arts & Humanities

In curriculum study skills within Dance, Level 4, Semester 1 & 2

Applied Social Science

• Social Work: Ning Social Network, Optical Mark Reader, In-curriculum (ICT Skills)

Individual Level

Provision of extended support for students from Learning Services

• Workshops (students and staff)
• Student tools for enhancing the reflective process
• Designing effective posters
• Designing effective presentations
• Becoming a connected learner

Staff only (Technology Enhanced Learning) Offered

• Flipping your teaching model: the how and the why
• Getting more out of your LearnUCS module
• Using social media to become a connected educator
• How clickers can change the way you teach
• Monitoring student engagement and performance in your LearnUCS Module (Learning Analytics)
• Creating talk over powerpoints and similar videos
• Designing a technology enhanced, group based learning activity
• Getting started with objective testing (LearnUCS Quizzes and Optical Mark Readers)

Expanding our media literacies

Have captured and processed student presentations for formative and summative assessment including the following (over 100 videos in the last 4 months);

• English
• Computer Games Design
• Early Years Studies
• PGCAP

Plans in next three months priorities (Learning Services)

• Development of in-curriculum study skills
• Writing discussion paper series
• Creation of study skills (badged) online course to support Maths, and ICT
• Creation of skills (badged) online course for Course Administrators