1. Centre for Innovation in Higher Education (CIHE)
Driving research-informed innovation in learning, teaching and assessment
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2. The Centre for Innovation in Higher Education (CIHE) advances the intersection between innovative educational research and pedagogic practice to improve learning and teaching across ARU and beyond
Showcasing ARU strengths and distinctiveness in learning, teaching and assessment
Supporting ARU academics in conducting applied pedagogic research and producing high-quality research outputs

3. Building a robust pedagogic research community through workshops, seminars and our annual CIHE conference

4. Design Thinking Pedagogies
Maximising current scholarship and practice in three specialist areas:
Digital Futures
Active Learning
Design Thinking Pedagogies

5. Current research project in
conjunction with
Building higher education curricula fit for the future: employability development in Higher Education responding to the Industrial Strategy.

6. Professor Pauline Kneale Pro-Vice Chancellor Teaching and Learning, University of Plymouth & Director, Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory(PedRIO)  Honorary Visiting Professor, Centre for Innovation in Higher Education (CIHE)

7. Top 5/10 World Economic Forum skills (2016)
Faculty of Health Social Care and Education
2018
Dr Nicola Walshe, Dr Simon Pratt-Adams and Dr Linda Brown
Generation Under-employed: Acquiring Graduate Skills and Post-Qualification Employability through Team Based Learning
Deborah McMillan
WHAT?
Graduate under-employment is being in a job role that does not utilize qualifications/knowledge and/or skills (Hartley-Brewer, 2015).
WHY?
Graduate under-employment occurs for many reasons, however, this presentation will solely focus on graduate skills for employment.
Graduates are not employment ready
(Smith, 2017)
Team Based Learning
(TBL)
Aims/ Objectives
To critically assess TBL
To explore how ARU conceptualises and promotes TBL; and
To evaluate the effectiveness of TBL in supporting learning gain and thereby preparing students for graduate employment
Top 5/10 World Economic Forum skills (2016)
It is an active learning approach that engages student knowledge through individual testing and group collaboration
2015
2020
1 Complex Problem Solving
2 Coordinating with Others
2 Critical Thinking
3 People Management
3 Creativity
4 Critical Thinking
4 People Management
5 Negotiation
5 Coordinating with Others
Passive Learning
Verbal lectures
Controlled environment
Note taking/handouts
Methods VS
TBL
Students engage and interact with content
Promotes team working and communication
Results/Conclusion
(TBC in 2021)

8. Learner Behaviour in a Blended Learning Environment:
Faculty of Health Social Care and Education
2018
Dr Phil Kirkman, Dr Simon Pratt-Adams and Dr Emma Coonan
Learner Behaviour in a Blended Learning Environment:
a Learning Analytics and Learning Design approach to Curriculum Evaluation
Maddy Redmond
£9000 DEGREE –
WHAT WORKS?
Do we know? What do we know? How do we know? With the publication of the Government White Paper (BIS 2016), there is pressure on universities to evidence ‘what works’ and calls for a culture of data-informed decision making (Sclater 2016).
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Which undergraduate blended courses achieve high levels of online learner-content interaction or have a LD which intends to achieve that?
To what extent does LD in blended courses influence patterns of online learner-content interaction in those courses?
What, if anything, do the patterns of online learner-content interaction reveal about student performance in those courses?
Learning Design
Learner Behaviour
Learning Analytics

9. ARU+ Transforming the Lives of Learners The staged introduction of a design approach in documenting the interactions of learners with the various ‘learning opportunities’ offered by the institution in terms of the formal curriculum and co-curriculum is proposed. A number of reusable learning designs will be created in Canvas LMS targeting aspects of the student journey. These units will be constructively aligned to one or more developmental frameworks. For example, activities will be designed to enhance aspects of employability, digital literacy, sustainability as well as academic and assessment literacies. George Evangelinos

10. Turning innovative teaching into published research
Props needed for workshop:
3 x flipchart pages (1 per key area)
Blutack
Lots of post-its
Marker pens
Prizes

11. Turning innovative teaching into published research
Designing pedagogic research studies
Applying for grant funding
Put 3 key themes onto flipchart pages on wall. Prompt questions:
What could you do in any of these areas?
What could you do in collaboration with someone else? What could you bring to their approach?
Use magic whiteboard to make ‘stations’ for each of the 3 areas. Provide pens, post-its. Participants put their ideas for ped res projects we could support on the whiteboards, then promenade round to see what they could collaborate with – add a post-it saying what you could offer. NB put names on to encourage real collaborative opportunities! Second round of promenade to see development.
Prizes for
Person who comes up with most ideas
Person who makes most connections with others
Writing for academic journals
Choosing where to publish

12. How to get involved Bringing together academics to enhance pedagogic research across ARU is central to our work . We want to showcase ARU strengths and distinctiveness in learning and teaching. That’s why we welcome your contribution and ideas
You can get involved in the following ways: Collaborative research opportunities Strategic short term projects Research fellowships Consultancy

13. What’s coming up? CIHE events in 2018/19
Seminar series
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) workshops
CIHE Annual Conference 2018/19
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