Project Management Network for Excellence in Learning & Teaching Key Findings from Workshop 1 Denise Bower

Project Management Network for Excellence in Learning & Teaching Workshop 1 Approx 50 people and 30 organisations represented 3 questions:  What needs rethinking?  How do we make that happen?  What does it mean for me? Group feedback and individual forms

Project Management Network for Excellence in Learning & Teaching What needs rethinking? Group responses:  Relationship with professional bodies  Reality, complexity, uncertainty, people, enquiry based  What a PM really does – then work out how to teach it! (especially craft …)  WISDOM (content, profession, personal reflection)

Project Management Network for Excellence in Learning & Teaching How do we make that happen? Group responses:  Take ownership of knowledge, collective power of educators, Share  Research and network  Link with industry, role play, cases … reality  Sessional teachers, empirical research, observe PM anthropology, experiential learning, look at other professional schools.

Project Management Network for Excellence in Learning & Teaching What does it mean for me? Group responses:  Successful students – could know v should know  Mutual learning, FUN, (hard to assess and risky)  Less prescription and description  Embed complexity

Project Management Network for Excellence in Learning & Teaching All 3 Q – Individual comments Spectrum from training to education, dynamic thinking applied to real world problem solving, negotiation, critical reflection, accreditation needed? Outcome level practitioner or expert? A level next? Scope of PM? More practitioners and wider range of speakers, full project life cycle, exams or coursework? Use of case studies, relationship with professional bodies, what is different between different courses? (ug, pg, MBA …), replace BoK with ability to contextualise, is PM a profession ? danger that professional bodies may set the curriculum, project manager or project leader? Reclaim BoK for society, tell APM, practical experience, What is a professional PM? Develop framework for agreed coverage of topic? Realistic, human dimension, share material: slides, assessment questions, exam questions

Project Management Network for Excellence in Learning & Teaching How can we take this forward? Reality through cases, stories … Assessment and feedback HE relationship with professional bodies Share materials, guest lectures Agree coverage at different levels Phase 1 diverge, phase 2 converge.