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SEDA Workshop: Refreshing PGCerts for Changing Times
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SEDA Workshop: Refreshing PGCerts for Changing Times
09 November 2010
Location: Woburn House, London
This event is now fully booked
10.30
– 10.45 Registration
and welcome
10.45 – 11.45 Setting
the Scene: Current Developments in Higher Education
Professor James Wisdom, HE Consultant
and President-elect, International Consortium for Educational Development.
Since the then Minister, John Denham,
started the debate in 2008 on the future of Higher Education, a series of
enquiries and reports have challenged, supported and proposed the re-shaping of
the sector, and there are more to come.
This session will take six aspects of
the sector (qualifications, methods of delivery, academic culture, lecturers
and teaching, the processes of learning, and students) and – through a process
of discussion - attempt to make reasonable predictions of how we might expect
them to change over the next five years.
11.50
– 12.50 Reviewing a PGCert - balancing internal and external agendas
Gail Langley, Reader in Educational
Development and Acting Director, Programme for Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education, London South Bank University
The focus
of this workshop on reviewing a PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education hangs on balancing internal and external agendas. But we have to keep
in mind a whole range of issues in the process of the management of change.
Having given a thumbnail sketch of our current course and its issues, I’ll ask
you to comment on what you think of first, the approach we have taken and
second, how you would react to the process being imposed upon us. We’ll look at
how we find a balance between internal and external stakeholder demands, issues
of quantity and quality and the whole issue of managing change positively and
developmentally. Internal stakeholders divide between the course team and
senior management within the university; the key external stakeholder discussed
will be the HEA, though the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) is also
claiming our attention and will get a brief mention. I’m sure I can depend upon
you for a lively exchange of views and experiences in reviewing a PGCHE course!
12.50 – 13.40
Lunch
13.40
– 15.00 Adapting a PGCert in
Higher Education Practice: the Bradford
Experience
Sean Walton (Lecturer in Higher
Education Practice) and Will Stewart (e-Learning Advisor), University of Bradford
In this session we will describe the
re-design of one of the modules of our established PGCHEP to suit two new
audiences, namely Graduate Teaching Assistants and colleagues in partner institutions
abroad who are delivering franchised courses. In both cases the module,
Learning and Teaching in HE, has undergone a significant re-design in terms of
its mode of delivery and content.
Graduate teaching assistants
undertake a large proportion of undergraduate teaching at the University of Bradford,
but many have little or no experience of teaching in a higher education
environment. The postgraduate teaching assistants at Bradford
are from diverse backgrounds both culturally and academically, and their
teaching roles are often more practically focussed than their lecturer
colleagues. These factors have been key challenges in re-designing the course
for this particular audience.
A different set of challenges has
arisen in adapting
the module to be delivered entirely online for the University’s collaborative partners around the world. These
relate not only to cultural
and language differences, but also to the collaborative and reflective nature
of the online module.
We will discuss the challenges and
issues involved in designing these two new modules for entirely different
audiences and describe how we have dealt with them.
15.00
– 15.15 Break
15.15
– 15.45 Panel Q & A
16.00 Close |
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