Annual Learning & Teaching Conference
2015
Trent Institute for Learning & Teaching
Prof Eunice Simmons
Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic)
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TILT is not
 a unit for academic governance
 a service per se, e.g.
o for quality management (CADQ)
o staff development (CPLD)
o project management
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Neither is it a new building…
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The Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching is
…a University wide initiative
…to support excellence in teaching and learning
…for all staff teaching students at
all levels
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all modes
all locations
Why do we need an Institute?
• Extend excellence in learning and
teaching practice
• Promote the best possible experience
for our students and staff
• Need to celebrate, recognise and
exchange practice
In thinking about the student and staff
experience we need to think more
about our intake
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Further Education at Brackenhurst
• Unique in NTU with 250 students of strategic importance to the
School
• Ofsted – Grade 2
(“Strategies are outstanding to promote and raise students’
awareness of employability skills”)
• Progression on to higher education or to employment
Awards Ceremony Southwell Minster
NTU’s Further Education 2014-15
Level 3: aiming for progression to work
and further study
Majority from within 25 mile radius
Under 19
150
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Over 19
27
24+ Loan
20
Total
197
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In Sept 2013 HE students came from
Nottinghamshire
Number of
students
5,004
Percent of
total
18.6
Rest of East Midlands
3,731
13.9
Other UK
14,929
55.6
Channel Isles/Isle of Man
62
0.2
EU
694
2.6
International
2,402
8.9
Not known
49
0.2
Total
26,871
100
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HE Levels of study 2013-14
Student
number
Percent
of total
20,811
77.5
Foundation Degree
529
2.0
Other Undergraduate
551
2.1
Postgraduate Research
605
2.3
4,375
16.3
26,871
100%
First Degree
Postgraduate Taught
Total
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HE Mode of study 2013-14
Full-time
Student
number
18,593
Sandwich
5,302
19.7
Part-time
2,976
11.1
Total
26,871
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Percent of
total
69.2
100%
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NTU graduates
• What is distinctive about them?
• What experience have they
had?
• We have nearly 27,000
students – we are being
challenged to personalise their
learning.
• How can TILT support you?
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What TILT could offer in phase 1?
Communities of practice and interest
around emerging issues
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NTU >£350 million estate investment across City,
Clifton and Brackenhurst
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Learning spaces group
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Need to horizon scan
What are the new
pedagogies – how
do they impact our
estate decisions?
… and look closely –
what if this is “empty
when observed”?
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Attendance Monitoring: QR
Codes
Exploratory
Strategic
Support
Operational
• Small group of academics currently testing a QR code tool for
capturing student attendance.
• Associated business processes and reporting requirements being
captured
• Initial reporting to be developed over the Summer
• Current plan is to release functionality for 15/16 academic year.
Information Systems: Delivering high quality, cost effective, green IT services in an agile manner that support NTU strategic plans
Academic IT group
Opportunities technology brings – generic
and subject specific
What quality can we achieve by monitoring
& researching how technology supports or
impacts on the learning experience
Contribute to our emerging NTU framework
for digital currency in L&T
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Academic IT group 2
Develop distance learning
- long form
- MOOCs as tasters?
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What about new types of course – these
are our only Apprenticeships
(Food Science and Technology)
Need to work with companies and colleges to diversify
the type of education available
e.g. FdSc/Higher Apprenticeship in Food Science & Technology
Apprenticeship working group being set up
Membership from all Colleges – academics &
business development, marketing &
admissions, administration
We need to urgently explore employment
areas to support with these opportunities
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How does our education support wider society?
City
Clifton
Brackenhurst
Sustainability – Green Academy
• Baseline audit of sustainability. Kingston
words methodology, reports for each school
• NOW learning room. School specific
sustainability resources to support teaching
• Tutorials, Lectures & Seminars. Bespoke
sustainability themed sessions have been
designed with CADQ support.
• Sustainability in Practice certificate. Online
module available to all, studied by 3300
people, video/poster or mood board
completed by 101 people.
• Programme of extra-curricular activities
linking Sustainability with education
Green Academy will support TILT in 2015
• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
training
• Work with individual course teams to improve
the ESD related content in their course
• Support Module Leaders
• Help to integrate the Sustainability in Practice
Certificate into the curriculum
• Sustainability Learning Resources in NOW
(staff development area)
food4thought@ntu.ac.uk
or visit us at our stall today to find out more
Phase One: what has been agreed?
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TILT activities
•Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
–New Masters’ level programme
–Inquiry-based learning
–Multidisciplinary
–Route into PGDip and Masters in Education
–Higher Education Academy Accredited
–To be launched January 2016
–We will be recruiting colleagues to contribute to the
programme: more information to follow after Easter
–We will also be seeking School-based mentors
TILT activities
•Reviewing teaching and learning career
progression routes
–Introduction of new Learning and Teaching Professorial
criteria
–New Awards and Titles Regulations to be available from
September 2015
–NTU Teaching Fellowships revised
–Developing pipeline for National Teaching Fellowship
nominees
TILT activities: HEA associate fellowship by July
TILT will help
you shift your
HEA
application off
the to-do
pile…
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TILT activities
•Competitive sabbatical scheme for 5 year+ employees
– 1-6 months in duration
– Investigate approaches to learning and teaching
– Outputs to be agreed at outset
– Teaching/ work commitments will be covered
– Supplementary costs also (within reason!)
– Applications by 31 May 2015 for start Jan 2016
– Details available from CPLD stand
TILT activities
It will encourage and support pedagogic
research…
- and as part of this we will evaluate TILT
activities taking an action research approach
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TILT activities
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Definition & support for an NTU framework for
digital currency in learning and teaching
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Reviewing our teaching awards (e.g. ViceChancellor’s teaching award): focusing on team
as well as individual
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Inviting Visiting Fellows and Professors to
support our work
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Masterclasses, seminars, workshops
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Support for special interest groups
Its resources will be used for you
 to establish administrative support and
coordination for your TILT-badged activities
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Future aspirations
•
Build NTU’s reputation as a beacon of
excellence for learning and teaching
•
Develop our pedagogic research base
•
Genuinely enhance the standing of learning and
teaching at NTU
How can I get involved?
• Sabbatical scheme – details available in Staff Development
Suite and on CPLD website
• HEA recognition – leaflets and booking available in Staff
Development Suite
• PGCAP Jan 2016 – recruitment call will be widely
disseminated, course details available in Autumn
• Events from Autumn 2015 – will be on a TILT website
• Awards and Titles revisions – available Autumn 2015
• Look out for ENews, pop-up stands, newsletters over coming
months – please tell us what you’d like to see from TILT
Get into an interest group
TITL will help deliver Strategic Plan theme
“Enriching Society”
Through courses which are well
resourced, practice oriented and
technologically enabled
Developing NTU
students as:
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Knowledgeable
Scholarly
Curious
Resourceful
Innovative
Creative 37
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Facilitated by
confident, expert
staff who are the
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best in the sector
and who know what success feels like!