[Academic] Guidance on teaching delivery

[physics-director-teaching]

Dear All,

Teaching Delivery 2022/23
As we all know from my previous emails about changes to pre-pandemic teaching the University is moving back to face-to-face delivery this year and a few people have asked about what this means for their teaching, so we provide here, amongst other things, a summary of the University position.
The University has stated that we are to go back to teaching as it was pre-pandemic. The exceptions to the no-changes rule are for new or replacement modules starting this year. We have been told at Faculty level that we cannot substitute live classes with recordings available online. Any differences to pre-pandemic teaching should have already been approved by the centre. Online classes (live streaming or recorded live lectures) should not be provided.
The following provides a little clarification, reworded slightly from official guidance.
-       Online activity to augment face-to-face activity is permitted, but if the online activity is to replace previous face-to-face activity this will not be permitted unless a strong case is made and approved by Senate.
-       Online lecture material previously created could be used to augment or supplement face-to-face activity. However, it should not replace teaching that was face-to-face pre-pandemic. This is the case even where the same number of face-to-face hours as delivered pre-pandemic are planned to be delivered but these hours would be used for different activity. For example, a move to a flipped classroom is not permitted if this was not the delivery method in place prior to the pandemic. On-campus classes were formally approved in their pre-pandemic forms and for academic quality reasons any changes require approval. After a year of returning to on campus teaching there will likely be opportunities to review and combine the best aspects of all types of delivery.
Staff Illness
If a member of staff is unable to come to campus due to illness but is well enough to deliver their lectures then we can, if they wish, set up a zoom link to the lecture theatre so that students can watch the class in their “normal” lecture.
If a member of staff is unable to deliver their lectures due to illness we will consider the best approach on a case-by-case basis. This may be temporarily using a few recordings from last year, if available, or asking the students to self-study with the lecture notes.
Best
John and Alison

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Professor John Jeffers
Director of Teaching
Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
physics-director-teaching at strath.ac.uk<mailto:physics-director-teaching at strath.ac.uk>




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