Peter Chatterton, Sarah Knight, Mark Kerrigan, Simon Walker

Supporting institutions with implementing student partnerships and change agent initiatives.

2/7/2014

#CAN2014 www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk

Welcome and introductions

Sarah Knight, Senior Co-Design Manager, Jisc @sarahknight

Peter Chatterton, Consultant @balham

Simon Walker, Head of Academic Development, University of Greenwich @sialker

Dr Mark Kerrigan, Director of TL&A Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education Anglia Ruskin University @MarkKerrigan

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‘Students as partners is not just a nice-to-have, I believe it has the potential to

help bring about social and educational transformation, as long as we know

what we are trying to do and we maintain a critical attitude about the ways

the concept is adopted and used.’

Rachel Wenstone, Vice President (Higher Education), NUS

A Manifesto for Partnership (November 2012)

Change Agents’ Network – Students as partners

Ways of engaging students in the digital environment

» Gathering information - Surveys, interviews, focus groups to find out about student expectations - Participative / observational methods to explore practices and attitudes - Social media – with students' consent – to collect information - Analyse existing data e.g. NSS/USS/ISB/PRET/local surveys

» Stimulating, gathering and responding to ideas - Interactive and fun e.g. crowdsourcing, hashtags, ideas tree, padlet... - Make sure students can share ideas and see how they are acted on

» Representation

» Partnership projects: 'making things better‘

» See Jisc Digital Student Study – http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org

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Background and context

» NUS Student Engagement model

» Use this model to evaluate your current student engagement practices

» http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/campaigns/highereducation/student-engagement/toolkit/

» Recognition of the importance of staff - student partnership working in curriculum innovation projects involving technology

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» A conceptual framework for staff and student partnership in learning and teaching in higher Education (Healey, Flint and Harrington 2014)

» http://bit.ly/1ndy2Lb

» Student Engagement Survey http://bit.ly/1lEWiou

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Benefits of engaging students

» Benefits for students:

› Gain an experience of leadership and influencing change.

› Gain experience of using research to shape change.

› Students can gain recognition through awards such as leadership awards, academic credit, extra-curricular awards and awards accredited through external bodies.

› Enhances student experience.

› Increases confidence & skills (e.g. communication, team-working, management, research skills).

› Enhances networking with e.g. employers, community.

› Improved employability and job prospects.

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Benefits of engaging students

» Benefits for staff: ‘… the novice-expert dynamic has been overturned. Two years into the project, we have observed and reflected on the fact that it is not us who are privileging the Student Fellows by awarding them with these important roles, but rather we who are privileged because of the insights we have gained from being allowed into their worlds. Student Fellows have given us an honest insight into what goes on behind the scenes when technology is brought into the mix and how re-shaping feedback influences their confidence, self-belief, well-being, subject knowledge and collaborative skills.’

Bath Spa University and University of Winchester, FASTECH project

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Change Agents’ Network @CANagogy #CAN2014

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» http://www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk and join can@jiscmail.ac.uk by visiting www.jiscmail.ac.uk

» Enhance student change agents’ understanding of effective practice and change issues.

» Identify and share effective practice in the area of students/student groups as change agents working in partnership with staff.

» Provide a forum for support and sharing of ideas with events and webinars.

» Create and link to resources to support staff and students promoting the use of student change agents sector wide.

» Developing a framework to support accreditation through SEDA and possibly ILM.

» Developing an open access Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change – call in April and launched in Autumn 2014.

Supporting staff and student partnerships

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» A series of resources to support staff and students in instituting student partnerships:

› Practice points › Viewpoints for student partnerships › Case studies › List of benefits › Useful links › Educational agency initiatives

http://tiny.cc/can001

Viewpoints: a framework/process to support change

» Originally developed by the University of Ulster

» Funded by Jisc Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design Programme (2008-2012)

» Original focus on curriculum design, assessment and feedback

» Adapted to different contexts e.g.

› Flexible Curriculum

› Student Partnerships

› Digital Literacy

› Work-based learning

http://wiki.ulster.ac.uk Jisc Design Studio page: http://tinyurl.com/vpointswiki

Change Agents’ Network – Viewpoints Toolkit

» Supporting staff and students in: › setting up and implementing partnerships with students (including students as change agents)

› developing student and staff capabilities (including implementing accreditation)

› evaluating and sustaining student partnerships

» The toolkit: › a set of (good practice) “Viewpoints” cards (practice points/top tips)

› a web-site with resources – linked to the Viewpoint cards http://tiny.cc/can001

› a proposed methodology for using the toolkit

» A community of practice: › helping to inform and shape the toolkit join CAN@jiscmail.ac.uk

› using it (piloting…….. embedding)

› refining it and maintaining its currency

Viewpoints: a framework/process to support change

The Resource Kit for Staff

» Questions about the resources?

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Opportunity to experience the Viewpoints toolkit

› Partnership set-up “Your VC wants to improve your NSS ratings and believes that student partnerships can help this and has tasked you and your colleagues to take this forward. Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan”.

› Partnership implementation “Your VC wants to improve your NSS ratings and believes that student partnerships can help this - another member of staff has developed an outline plan and you and your colleagues are now tasked to take this forward. Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan”.

› Capabilities, development and accreditation “You and your colleagues have been tasked by the PVC (Student Experience) to focus on developing capabilities and accreditation for students and staff involved with student partnership initiatives. Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan”.

› Evaluation, impact and sustainability “Your institution has undertaken two successful pilot student partnership projects and you and your colleagues have been tasked to sustain and embed these - Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan.”

Discussion

» Would the Viewpoints toolkit be useful in your institution?

» Does it need amending/developing further?

» Would you want to customise it?

» Do you have any case studies to add to it?

» http://padlet.com/sarahknight/CANJuly2014

Accreditation – Institutional Change Leader

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Accreditation via SEDA

Journal of Educational Innovation , Partnership &Change

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https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/studentchangeagents

• Opinion Pieces • Case Studies / Project reports • Research Articles • Book Reviews • Technology Reviews

Find out more…

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Change Agents’ Network

s.knight@jisc.ac.uk

peter.chatterton@daedalus-e-world.com

M.J.P.Kerrigan@Greenwich.ac.uk

S.Walker@greenwich.ac.uk

brad@hei-flyers.org

www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk #CAN2014 @CANagogy can@jiscmail.ac.uk

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