First Steps in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2016) David Hunt Tutor – Real Estate UCEM

About me: ● Chartered Valuation Surveyor ● 12 years Professional Real Estate Experience ● Joined University College of Estate Management in September 2015 ● Former student of UCEM who joined with a belief that there was an opportunity to improve courses based on personal experience ● All of UCEM’s courses now ONLY delivered online

Context Teaching duties with UCEM ● First 6 months in Module Tutor role, team teaching as an assistant to Module leaders on MSc Real Estate Courses ● Other tasks include writing exams and assignments, moderation, marking and designing and editing modules before their March 2016 commencement ● 6 months preparation before assuming a module leadership role with responsibility for leading and delivering 5 modules.

Activity ● Following a weekly curriculum devised by the faculty board to ensure at least 10 synchronous learning activities in each module ● Most common way is to prepare and run webinars using conferencing software ● Typically this means preparing slides per topic ● Usually tackling the more complex ideas ● Time for students to ask questions ● Topic contextualised by professional work

Example

Graduate attributes ● Knowledge and understanding ● Cognitive skills ● Practical and professional skills ● Key/transferable skills

Learning outcomes 1 ● Knowledge and understanding ● undertake a range of valuations of property interests in special circumstances ● critically rationalise the relationship between a sustainable built environment and the valuation of real estate interests ● Cognitive skills ● evaluate the relative importance of inputs to the valuation process and construct a sensitivity analysis ● critically examine the role of international valuation standards

Learning outcomes 2 ● Practical and professional skills ● produce and defend reasoned valuations and development appraisals ● critically examine the differing reporting requirements relating to valuations for specific purposes ● Key/transferable skills ● create discounted cash flow spreadsheets incorporating debt funding for residual and/or investment valuations ● demonstrate their ability to work as part of a team

Reflection Brookfield’s 4 lenses ● Peer dialogue (lens 3) ​ ● ‘check‘ our practices ​ ● ‘reframe' our practices ​ ● broaden our practices ​ ● Personal perspective (lens 1) ​ ● journal or notebook to record reflections ​ ● directly video record teaching (webinar) and then review the recording ​ ● previous experience in the workplace ​ ● previous experience as a student ​

Reflection Brookfield’s 4 lenses ● Student feedback (lens 2) ​ ● Web tools to help gather immediate feedback ​ ● Literature (lens 4) ​ ● Schon’s reflection in practice ​ ● ‘thinking on our feet’ ​ ● Schon’s reflection on practice ​ ● The familiar situation functions as a precedent, an example for the unfamiliar one ​ ● We do not have a full understanding of things before we act, but we can avoid major problems while ‘testing the water’ ​

Insight Analysis- The approach taken ● Frame ● Outcomes led ● Experiential ● Participatory ● Preferred learning styles ● Visual learners ● Kinaesthetic learners ● Auditory learners ● Intended outcomes ● Formative assessment ● Summative assessment

Insight Effectiveness ● How do online courses compare to traditional postal/correspondence courses in terms of learning? ● What about in terms of engagement/student retention? ● Is there a link between engagement and results? ● Also, it is worth thinking about numbers as a whole?

Insight Effectiveness Reflection on teaching with subsequent consideration and improvement follows Gibb’s reflective cycle

Action Plan Recommendations ● Asynchronous webinar ● Contributory data base for students ● Experimenting with interactive learning tools

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References Lambert, C. (2012) ‘Twilight of the lecture’, Harvard Magazine, March-April, Available at lecture (Accessed 9 June 2015) ​ lecture Oxford Brookes University (n.d.) ‘Introduction to reflection’ (on line). Available online at (Accessed 14 February 2016) ​ Smith, M. K. (2001, 2011). ‘Donald Schön: learning, reflection and change’, The encyclopedia of informal education. Available online at schon.htm (Accessed 14 February 2016) ​ schon.htm Southerland, N. (2009) ‘Increasing student engagement in distance learning courses’, Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange, Available at distance-learning-courses/ (14 February 2016) distance-learning-courses/

References St. Clair, D. J. (2009) ‘My Experience with Teaching Online: Confessions and ​ Observations of a Survivor’, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2009, Available at (Accessed 14 February 2016) ​ Tyler-Smith, K (2006) ‘Early Attrition among First Time eLearners: A Review of Factors that Contribute to Drop-out, Withdrawal and Non-completion Rates of ​ Adult Learners undertaking eLearning Programmes’, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Available at smith.htm (Accessed 14 February 2016) ​ smith.htm Young, S. and Bruce, M. A. (2011) ‘Classroom community and student engagement in online courses’, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 7, No. 2, Available (Accessed 9 June 2015)