[Academic] ESC Project: Learning and Teaching Delivery and Support

Tue Apr 28 18:19:47 BST 2020

Apologies all for the excruciating acronym in the spreadsheet: NFTFT 
stands for 'Non-Face-To-Face-Teaching'

On 28/04/2020 15:18, Brian wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> The Universitiy's Education Strategy Committee  have requested 
> information (for the Principal and Executive Team) on the approaches 
> taken and impact at a programme level (BSc, MPhys, MSc...)  of how we 
> were able to transition to non-face-to-face / online learning and 
> teaching from mid- March. This will help establish a more detailed 
> understanding of uses of web-based and webinar platforms for: teaching 
> and learning, project activity, assessment (& assessment re-design), 
> feedback, student support and support for staff within the faculty.
>
> Please find attached a spreadsheet that will allow you to contribute. 
> Please indicate which module you refer to in your return. These will 
> be collated and returned by the deadline of Mon 4 May.
>
> The Faculty give their 'Apologies that you have a further task to 
> complete when you all have much on your plate already...'
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	FW: ESC Project: Learning and Teaching Delivery and Support
> Date: 	Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:34:19 +0100
> From: 	Christine Dowds <christine.dowds at strath.ac.uk>
> To: 	Brian McNeil (Physics) <b.w.j.mcneil at strath.ac.uk>, Anne Boyter 
> <anne.boyter at strath.ac.uk>, Lorraine Gibson 
> <lorraine.gibson at strath.ac.uk>, Murray Wood 
> <murray.wood at strath.ac.uk>, Penny Davies <penny.davies at strath.ac.uk>
> CC: 	Debra Willison <D.Willison at strath.ac.uk>, Elaine Hurley 
> <elaine.hurley at strath.ac.uk>
>
>
>
> **Sent on behalf of the Vice Dean (Academic)**
>
> Dear DoTs
>
> You will see the request from the Deputy Associate Principal below. 
> Apologies that you have a further task to complete when you all have 
> much on your plate already but the information being gathered will 
> inform the Education Strategy Committee (and more importantly the 
> Principal and Executive Team) about the scale of the work which has 
> been undertaken. The information requested is at programme level and 
> it is acceptable to list more than one programme in your return if the 
> same adjustments have been made in those programmes. If there are any 
> differences could those programmes be logged on a separate return.
>
> In order for a Faculty return to be compiled by the deadline please 
> submit your Department response to christine.dowds at strath.ac.uk 
> <mailto:christine.dowds at strath.ac.uk> by Monday 4^th May at noon.
>
> Many thanks for your support with this.
>
> Regards
>
> Debbie.
>
> **
>
> *From:*Brian Green
> *Sent:* 28 April 2020 12:01
> *To:* Debra Willison <D.Willison at strath.ac.uk 
> <mailto:D.Willison at strath.ac.uk>>
> *Cc:* Quality Enhancement & Assurance Team 
> <educationenhancement-quality at strath.ac.uk 
> <mailto:educationenhancement-quality at strath.ac.uk>>
> *Subject:* ESC Project: Learning and Teaching Delivery and Support
>
> Hi Debbie
>
> At the end of last week there was a meeting of the ET / ESC group 
> which has oversight of the project we reviewed and discussed earlier 
> in the week at LEC. The group were very positive regarding our initial 
> progress, particularly in relation to the headline review and 
> reporting on the areas identified around: What We Did, How We Did It, 
> What Worked & What Didn’t.
>
> Whilst welcoming this approach the Vice Principal, with the group’s 
> full support, felt that it would also be essential to have a clear 
> picture of the approaches taken and impact at a programme level for 
> the University to gain a full picture of how we were able to 
> transition to non-face-to-face / online learning and teaching from 
> mid- March. This will help the project to establish a more detailed 
> understanding of uses of web-based and webinar platforms for: teaching 
> and learning, project activity, assessment (& assessment re-design), 
> feedback, student support and support for staff within the faculty.
>
> I am aware from our discussions that faculties have been collating and 
> recording the changes made for learning, teaching and assessment and 
> so hopefully the information is available to allow a programme-based 
> summary to be established for each faculty. We recognise the 
> curriculum structures vary across the Faculties, so if providing this 
> detail at a subject level is more appropriate to your faculty, please 
> feel free to respond as such.
>
> The attached template is intended to help programme leaders focus 
> reflections and provide a framework for responses. Hopefully this will 
> be useful and help collate information across the institution so we 
> can maximise our learning from this unprecedented challenge.
>
> I realise that this is a further request at a busy time but this 
> information really would help inform this work and allow us to 
> maximise the learning and impact from our current experiences. I would 
> ask that this is collated at faculty level and submitted to me, and 
> copied to educationenhancement-quality at strath.ac.uk 
> <mailto:educationenhancement-quality at strath.ac.uk>, by Tuesday 5^th 
> May in order that I can provide a summary for ESC.
>
> I am happy to discuss this request in more detail if it would be helpful.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Brian
>
> Brian Green, FLF, PFHEA
>
> Deputy Associate Principal (Learning & Teaching)
>
> Senior Officers Suite
>
> Royal College Building
>
> 204 George Street
>
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>
> G1 1XW
>
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>
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University of Strathclyde
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