1. Sue Transforming courses by engaging students in their learning Sue Rigby, Vice Principal Learning and Teaching, University of Edinburgh

3. Sue 1.Teaching is easy…… 2.What employers want 3.HEAR and the co-curriculum 4.The Edinburgh Award 5.Innovative Learning Week 6.Changing the curriculum – a paradigm shift?

4. Sue Teaching is easy…. but pursuading students to learn is harder Model 1: Lectures, practicum, closed book exam Model 2: Individual development of skills and expertise, timely and stretching

7. Sue What employers want

8. 8 GPA’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are also worthless…we found they don’t predict anything Five attributes – Learning ability Leadership Intellectual humility Ownership/responsibility (Coding)

9. Sue What we provide

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11. formal curriculum learning into the wider world student learning beyond the curriculum 11 Formal curriculum = degree classification What about the rest?m – what employers

12. Sue HEAR and the co-curriculum

14. Sue The Edinburgh Award

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16. Sue Innovative Learning Week and the innovation pipeline…… (but…participation in year 1 43%, participation in year 2 59%)

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21. Sue Changing the curriculum – a paradigm shift?

22. Sue The paradigm shift What do we teach when knowledge is ubiquitous? The University response – Parity of esteem of teaching and learning with research

23. Sue What can we teach?

26. Sue What can we enable students to learn? Five attributes – Learning ability Leadership Intellectual humility Ownership/responsibility (Coding)

27. Peer Assisted learning

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32. Learning and teaching in 2020 1.A portfolio approach for an unpredictable future – making the most of the Scottish degree 2.Giving students agency to create their own learning – students at the centre, not degree programmes 3.Extend learning beyond the traditional knowledge-centred course – eg international experience, service learning, self-defined projects, entrepreneurship 4.Every student a researcher or practitioner - joined at the hip to a research group from year 1, offered a higher degree place on attainment of a good degree 5.Course design for 21 st century learners – appropriate use of technology and student centred learning 6.Focus on multiple learning styles and learning for life – at least one online course taken by all students, explicit reflection on learning style and capacity