Peter Chatterton, Sarah Knight, Mark Kerrigan, Simon Walker Instituting student partnerships: a workshop to explore approaches and effective practice. 8/7/2014 Peter Chatterton, Sarah Knight, Mark Kerrigan, Simon Walker #CAN2014 www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk

Welcome and introductions 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 Peter Chatterton, Consultant @balham Sarah Knight, Senior Co-Design Manager, Jisc @sarahknight

Change Agents’ Network – Students as partners Rachel Wenstone, Vice President (Higher Education), NUS ‘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.’   A Manifesto for Partnership (November 2012) 20/09/2018

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

Background and context NUS Student Engagement model Use this model to evaluate your current student engagement practices http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/campaign s/highereducation/student- engagement/toolkit/ Recognition of the importance of staff - student partnership working in curriculum innovation projects involving technology Using the four-stage picture of engagement as a reflective tool, this exercise challenges students’ representatives and institution managers and academics to evaluate their current student engagement practices. The focus of this task is to think about the outcomes of engagement activities and the impact that policies and practices have on students. Feedback from students Representation Curriculum design

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. Peter

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 Peter

Change Agents’ Network @CANagogy #CAN2014 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. Sarah

Accreditation – Institutional Change Leader ….in progress Accreditation via SEDA 20/09/2018 Developing digital literacies

Journal of Educational Innovation , Partnership &Change Opinion Pieces  Case Studies / Project reports Research Articles  Book Reviews  Technology Reviews  https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/studentchangeagents 20/09/2018 Developing digital literacies

Supporting staff and student partnerships 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 Sarah

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 Peter

Viewpoints: a framework/process to support change Peter

The Resource Kit for Staff Questions about the resources?

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

Find out more… Change Agents’ Network s.knight@jisc.ac.uk peter.chatterton@daedalus-e-world.com mark.Kerrigan@anglia.ac.uk S.Walker@greenwich.ac.uk brad@hei-flyers.org www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk #CAN2014 @CANagogy can@jiscmail.ac.uk Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide (click ‘Apply’ to change only the currently selected slide, or ‘Apply to All’ to change the footers on all slides). 20/09/2018