1. Innovation in Science Teaching and Learning: leading uptake beyond individual innovators
Professor Adam Bridgeman
Director, Educational Innovation
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) Portfolio
Australian National Learning and Teaching Fellow

2. Engaging Deans and Heads of School
Increasingly large faculties
Deans can influence Heads:
Culture
KPIs
Heads have influence over:
Workload
Promotions
Performance planning
Tactics:
Engage regularly with faculty and school managers
Provide resources, such as faculty grants and incentives
Provide targeted data, such as comparisons of school performance on surveys, retention and attrition rates

3. Supporting a culture of innovation
Reward existing and encouraging new innovators
Access to funds, workload relief and educational designers
Recognition, such as promotion and awards
Connect and mentor across faculties / institutions
Sharing innovation
”Hands on” workshops
Design workshops
Peer observation
Expecting innovation
Build innovation into workloads and performance planning
HEA Fellowships
Promotion criteria

4. Supporting a culture of innovation
David Matthews, Times Higher Education 2017

5. Supporting a culture of innovation
"faculty members’ No. 1 challenge was to make sure that they were 'not an embarrassment to [themselves] in front of … students.’”
"many academics clung to a 'very strong' idea of what constituted good teaching that they had often inherited from their former professors or even parents, even if other evidence was available”
Actively support staff:
Expect dip into student evaluations
Time with good educational designers
Work with students as partners

6. Take advantage of central and strategic projects
Move to new LMS
Move to online masters
Changes in new teaching space designs
Changes in semester dates and lengths
Opportunities to transform rather than review or refresh

7. Recognising and celebrating teaching excellence
HEA fellowship:
The only internationally recognised framework for professional recognition of teaching excellence
Available to all from 2018
Promotion to all levels for education-focussed staff
Extended VC Awards covering innovation and professional staff
Flexible -> likely to be blended or oniine – so need to think about integrity
Flexible -> badging? transferrability via blockchain??

8. Week 4 // Open Door – semester 1 2017
Open classes ( ) and attendees ( )

9. Thank you adam.bridgeman@sydney.edu.au @AdamBridgeman @SydneyEduInnov