Welcome
The Phoenix Course Development
Programme
Aviation Management
Andrew Turner
Learning and Development
The student experience?
• The £135 university lecture – but is it worth it?
• As universities hike their fees, will students be left questioning
the quality – and quantity – of teaching?
(Mortarboard 3 May)
University priorities in teaching and
learning
1. Student satisfaction
2. Student success and completion
3. Graduate level jobs and careers
“Gradually, the
internet is sinking into
the background as a
tool that everyone
takes for granted”
Digital literacy
The skills necessary for
living, learning and
working in a
digital society
Aspects of digital literacy...
• Information literacy
• Communication literacy
• Learning literacies
– Collaboration
– Use of digital learning spaces
– Use of social media
– Assessment submission and feedback
• Recording learning
The focus is now on the course
experience
Student
satisfaction
Success
and
completion
Value for
money
Course
experience
Graduate
level jobs
and
employment
Excellent
student
experience
International
experience
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EC Faculty requirements
• The offer to students must be unambiguous,
delivered and auditable.
• Simplification of courses to reduce staff workloads –
assessing less or assess over several modules.
• Activity led learning – 20 credit module running at the
same time over all courses and all levels.
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The student journey
From student to...
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• Your job as course designers.....
Academic
and personal
tutoring
Technology
and digital
literacy
An
international
experience
Assessment
Careers and
employment
‘Classroom
Experience’
Work
experience
The
student
experience
Professional
accreditation
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Review of existing courses
• Use the data provided and your own reflections to
consider where are you know?
• Data provided: course viability data, NSS, module
questionnaire data
– What are the areas for development?
– What are the strengths to build upon?
– What are the opportunities.
• How does your course address the Teaching and
learning strategy priorities?
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Course vision. Imagine.......
• Imagine a conversation between two students.
• A student is coming to the end of a third year of your
course and is asked by a prospective student about
whether to apply to do Criminology or forensic
investigation at Coventry University.
• How would you like the conversation to go. What
would they say.
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Developing a collective vision
for your courses
• In your groups develop a vision for your courses
which reflects the student experience and your vision
for the graduates from it
– Consider the teaching and learning experience
– International experience
– Employment – employability
– Unique selling point of the course / distinctiveness
– Why would a student choose your course over a
competitor
– Student experience
Activity – developing the
strategic themes
• Divide into groups
• Identify the key strategic themes and
student competences for your courses.
• Try to develop level outcomes for your
theme as it would be experienced by
your students.
Action planning for day 2
• Review and Action: Where are we now.
• Allocate tasks and responsibilities for day 2.
– Teaching and learning (including Technology
enhanced learning)
– Assessment strategy,
– Internationalisation
– Academic and Personal Tutoring
• What will you present to a student panel?