Welcome to the Rich Exchanges Conference 28 th June 2011
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Welcome to the
Rich ExchangesConference
28th June 2011
The programmeTwo changes:
– 11.40 Food for discussion
– 3.15 Developing the multicultural community of practice starting at induction
Posters: What do students think?52 face-to-face semi-structured interviews
What does a Degree give you? What do you think Graduate Attributes means?What skills do you think you have developed by studying at Wolverhampton?
If an alien landed today and they asked you what’s special about studying at Wolverhampton – What would you say?
Enterprise needs to be contextualised by subject /course
Digital literacy needs to be contextualise by subject/course.
Do we need a university threshold that all students will have to achieve?
Global Citizenship: Explore interactive work between home and international students
Expert panels
knowledge exchanger and producer,
interpersonal and communication skills,
ethical and professional approach,
community player,
critical thinking,
cultural fluidity,
innovation,
creativity,
reflexivity
Characteristics?
Contextualised by subject/course
Stitched together by students
Building a web resource
PresentationsPractice-based case studies, including:
• Work Based Learning • Peer Supported Study • Developing the relationship between Home and
International Students • Community Projects that utilise ‘real life’ environments • Student-centred approaches
Dr Viv Caruana
Reader in InternationalisationCarnegie Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University
Co-Director of CAPRICentre for Academic Practice and Research in Internationalisation
Externally Funded Projects
ILE 2010/11
Global Citizenship as a Graduate Attribute: an ESRC Seminar Series Led by the University of Wolverhampton with partners from: The Institute of Education, London University, University of the Arts, University College London and University of West London.
We aim to generate a theorised direction for global citizenship as a graduate attribute and an underpinning pedagogic direction for its encouragement. We anticipate that these directions will be sufficiently expansive to grapple with the dynamic and complex interrelationship between social differences and commonalities among humans.
ILE Project Leader: Professor Glynis CousinProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/globalcitizen
Disparities in Student Attainment (DISA) Project
The research explores the attainment gap between white and BME students through:
• data collection from students • engaging lecturers in action research to make changes to
modules and evaluate the impact of those changes • collection of naturally occurring institutional data to help
build a comprehensive picture of the attainment gap, to identify area of best practice and to roll out best practice.
ILE Project Leader: Professor Glynis Cousin
Project website: www.wlv.ac.uk/DISA
Learning to Teach Inclusively 30 credit ‘tailor-able’ module entitled ‘teaching inclusively’ aimed at teaching and support staff as part of accredited CPD
The module will reflect four key areas of inclusive practice:• curriculum design• curriculum delivery• assessment and • management
Overarching aim is to facilitate the development of inclusive practitioners across the sector and to enhance the academic engagement of all students.
ILE project Leader: Professor Christine HockingsProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/teachinclusively
An e-Portfolio based Pedagogy for SMEs (ePPSME)The ePPSME project has provided the Higher Education sector with reusable models and resources for an ePortfolio
based pedagogy to address the needs of SME enterprise-based learners.
Providing HE learning opportunities to work-based learners that are bespoke to the individuals’ learning needs.
Enabling staff development for work-based learning
Project Leader: Alison Felce
Project website: www.wlv.ac.uk/eppsme
An e-Portfolio Community of Practice (ePCoP) The e-Portfolio Community of Practice (ePCoP) project - JISC Benefits Realisation (BR) Project extending the work of ePPSME.
Includes:• a wide range of e-portfolio principles for work-based learners, • lifelong learning and employer engagement projects
to create and enable a more sustainable community of practice beyond the funding period for both ePPSME and the BR project.
Project Leader: Alison Felce
Project website: www.wlv.ac.uk/epcop
ePortfolio for Accreditation of Prior Experiental Learning (eP4APEL)
Building on our knowledge of ePortfolio pedagogy this project is exploring how and ePortfolio can be used to gather and package evidence that will allow for structured support and guidance to students who could make a claim for Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL).
Project Leader: Alison FelceProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/eP4APEL
Digitally Enhanced Patchwork Text Assessment (DPTA)
This project developed the use of digitally enhanced patchwork text assessments (DePTA) in a range of traditional academic subjects.
• Psychology (Bedfordshire and Wolverhampton)• Photography (Cumbria)• Archaeology (Liverpool)• Law (Derby)
The project is hosted by Cumbria University working collaboratively with the Universities of Bedfordshire, Derby, Liverpool, Wolverhampton and The Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA).
ILE Project Leader: Dr Megan LawtonProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=24876