1. Virtual SSLC for Postgraduate Taught Programmes Pilot Study
Warwick Students: Ariel Wang, Roisin O’Brien, Nat Panda
Ricky Jones, Kate Birchenall
Background
Higher education landscape is evolving and drawing students from a wide demographic:
Age and gender, ethnicity,
Professional and personal responsibilities,
Geographic locations.
Interactions with students must adapt accordingly to encourage our mutual engagement with a transient and part-time student body
Virtual [online] Student Staff Liaison Committee [SSLC] as a platform to garner student opinion on the learner experience.
Aims
To pilot a virtual SSLC for, and in collaboration with:
Full-time and part-time PGT Masters students
Course directors, administrative colleagues
Academic Quality Assurance and Enhancement Unit,
Warwick Student Union,
IT services.
Outcomes of the Project
Project Timeline
Use: Google Chrome,
Desktop, tablet or laptop
Asynchronous access to the agenda
Feedback from all students
attendees and non-attendees to meeting
Documents for meeting in
pdf or Powerpoint
Steering group to plan project
Pilot the use of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as the online platform
Engaged postgraduate students in the pilot-testing and trouble-shooting
Developed the user guide for the vSSLC
Tested vSSLC with participants at different locations: campus and remote access in the UK
Conclusions
We developed a proof-of-concept for the Virtual SSLC
We will implement in in order to gain vital information
on our learner experience
We will share our experiences and disseminate good practice within The University of Warwick academic community and beyond.
Warwick Academics
Olwyn Westwood, David Davies, Debbi Marais,
Robert O’Toole, Jacob Saranga