Mark Cleary Introduction
• An exciting time for the University in respect of learning and teaching agenda – new senior management structure (DVC for L&T now appointed), corporate planning in progress, student experience is pretty good (NSS: but we could do better), investment in learning resources (e.g. Knowledge Exchange).
• People at this event are the missionaries/experts/innovators. Getting most of our staff and students engaged is about support. Key is providing support – discussions about buildings revert to the content – the mechanisms and people to support are the vital elements
• Using tech to potentially free up academic staff time for more face to face and academic contact – aspiration to make commitments to small group contact hours – view that most satisfying aspect is small group tutorials
• Research is in the DNA of the institution, perhaps blended learning (preferred term to e-learning) needs to recognised in the same way
Q&A Session
• STEM agenda is happening, we have had 3 successful HEFCE SDF bids in last couple of years. Need to ensure a coherent picture of our corporate initiatives – this could provide the Unique Selling Point (USP) for the Institution
• One of the Key links to the academic delivery are course managers – they are an important link between management and delivery because they deal with line management and workload distribution.
• Should talk about innovation in learning and teaching.
• We seem to have a need at Bradford (is it the same everywhere?) to prove that this stuff works in our environment – not good enough that this technology or approach worked elsewhere
• Issue about feeling safe to take element of risk – to bring things back to deal with student experience if there is a problem to ensure students get best overall experience.
• Curriculum design issue – difficulties with potentially stifling approval routes – SCART and CART can slow things down
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