1. Connected Curricula delivering Teaching Excellence
UWE Learning and Teaching Conference
Presentation by
Gerry Rice
Associate Dean
Quality Learning & Teaching
Faculty of Health & Applied Sciences
21 June 2016

3. Innovation & Development
Priorities…
Collaboration
Infrastructure
People
Innovation & Development
Discipline
Partnership
Systems

4. Developing Connections…
Important to support and promote research, practice, engagement and innovation in workload planning
Needs to directly engage with programme development and delivery
Support early career research development – but not lose sight of on going engagement in practice
Staff appointment criteria
Research and practice not just done by “others”
“One University” approach

5. Not just about moving people along the continuum...
Informed
Engaged
Active

6. Commitment…
…Not about curricula being informed by research and practice…
..Nor the Integration of research and practice into all curricula…
…Moving to curricula based on research and practice
That is a Connected Curriculum

7. CONNECTED CURRICULA “LENS” KNOWLEDGE RESEARCH PRACTICE CONCEPTS
FRAME OF REFERENCE
PRACTICE
CONCEPTS
METHODS
PROBLEM

8. Connected Curriculum…
Recognises the inter related and symbiotic relationship between Research and Practice:
Drives co-creation of curricula with stakeholders
Draws on participatory and inclusive pedagogies
Integrates co-creation and collaborative models of knowledge development and application
Repositions active learning at the heart of the academic journey
Empowers pedagogical partnerships

9. Connected Curriculum…
Builds on the underlying core concepts
Enhances epistemological understanding
Develops relevant models, frameworks and perspectives of the disciplines
Drives best practice, methods and procedures
Highlights the major debates and challenges in the discipline
Drives and delivers UWE 2020