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Kirsteen Macdonald - Lead Academic Developer
Alex Chapman - Head of Technology Enhanced Learning
Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement – Middlesex University
Institutional Change - A Driver for Transforming Learning and Teaching
Middlesex University
• 40,000 students• One campus in north London
and campuses in Dubai, Mauritius & Malta
• Academic partnerships across the world
• Art and Design, Business, Health & Education, Law, Media & Performing Arts and Science & Technology, Work Based Learning.
Mauritius
Dubai
N. London
Our worldwide campuses
Malta
Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement
• Central Service
• Hub and Spoke
• Academic Developers and Educational Technologist
Project Background
• Blackboard Vista for 12 years• 18 month scoping exercise• Moodle chosen September 2012• Tender process (hosted solution &
consultancy services)• Moodlerooms selected March 2013• Live
– June 2013 – Staff– September 2013 - Students
Project Scoping
Scoping (over 18 months)
• Future VLE scoping report • Future learning technologies blog
http://futurelearningtechnologies.wordpress.com/
• Staff Interviews & focus groups• Questionnaire
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MDXFLT
• E-assessment project.
Project Background
Project Plan
• The Project ran over 2 academic years• Year 1 – Phase 1:
– new programmes for September 2013– Programmes revalidated / reviewed in 2012/13
• Year 2 - Phase 2: – new programmes for September 2014– all remaining programmes– CPD / Short courses
Project Plan - Aims
• an excellent experience of learning, teaching and assessment to all Middlesex University students worldwide
• staff to transform student learning by interactively and collaboratively developing excellent learning, teaching and assessment experiences.
Project Structure and Resources
• Seven Project Teams – One for each School and WBL. A Team consists of– Team Leader (CAPE)– School Programme Leaders / LTSL– Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA)– Library Liaison Manager– Overseas Campus Representative
• Organisational Readiness Group
Project Structure and Resources
• Project accountable to a Project Board chaired by a member of Executive
• Membership includes:– Dean or Deputy Dean from each School / WBL– Other Academic representation– Directors of IT, Library and Student Support,
Academic Partnerships
Scale
• 936 Courses for 2013-14 • 2004 Courses for 2014-15• 480 Other Courses• 5175 Staff• 33911 Students• 73570 Enrolments• 73570 Groups • 1849047 Group enrolments
Translating the Aims
• Moving to a new platform
• How to sell ‘transformation’
• One size fits all?
The Local Context
• Needed to encourage rather than discourage
• Keen to collaborate and consult
• Partnership role – academics and programme teams leading
• Finding a hook - Your Top 3…
The Practice
• 50% of programmes validated• Awareness raising during preparation phase• Meetings and endless demo’s• Local support• Training
programme
Results
• 180 staff/25 training sessions
• ‘Just in time’ training for majority
• Feedback – “All fine”, “starting to use [Moodle] as a teaching tool”
Keys to Success
• Communicate
• Align to validation process
• Business partnering
• Cooperation between academic community and all learning & teaching support
Five Key Learnings
• Define and prioritise the requirements• Effective team and working relationships
within the University• Shared and well communicated plan• Reliable hosted environment (storage,
backup, DR, regular software upgrade)• Accuracy and effective management of data,
courses, enrolments and etc.
Where Next?
• Transformation is ongoing process
• Momentum dipping– Staff fatigue, Moodled Out
• Use the same approach in future projects - reinforce idea of ongoing transformation
Any Questions
The Presenters
Kirsteen Macdonald
Lead Academic Developer
Alex Chapman
Head of Technology Enhanced Learning