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Chrissi Nerantzi, Manchester Metropolitan University - Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University Dr Diogo Casanova, Kingston University - Dr Catherine Hack, Ulster University - Sheila MacNeill, Glasgow Caledonian University The power of open cross-institutional collaboration for connected professional development in higher education #ALTC 2015

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Page 1: The power of open cross-institutional collaboration for connected professional development  in higher education #ALTC 2015

Chrissi Nerantzi, Manchester Metropolitan University - Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Dr Diogo Casanova, Kingston University - Dr Catherine Hack, Ulster University - Sheila MacNeill, Glasgow Caledonian University

The power of open cross-institutional collaboration

for connected professional development

in higher education

#ALTC 2015

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Overview

Our understanding of open

cross-institutional development

BYOD4L: January 2015 iteration

Exploring opportunities and challenges of open cross-

institutional professional development

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BYOD4L the open event

add existing bits Site http://byod4learning.wordpress.com/

Related research and BYOD4L iterations, including January 2015

https://byod4learning.wordpress.com/about/research/

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BYOD4L January 2015 (3rd iteration)

9 participating institutions + 2 further partners

Snowballing approach (Nerantzi & Beckingham, 2015b)

5C Framework (Nerantzi & Beckingham, 2015a)

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The BYOD4L January 2015 Team

2 organisers

21 facilitators (without organisers)

9 institutions

2 additional partners (US, Germany)

7 mentors

1 peer reviewer

1 artist

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Overview of our research project

Aims Explore perceived benefits and challenges for participating institutions for open

cross-institutional initiatives and recommendations for sustainable professional

development solutions

Methodology Action research

Methods Survey instrument, web analytics

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Findings: WordPress views and

Twitter

Data created using @mhawksey's TAGS Tool by

Peter Reed

460 twitter users across the week

Data created from wordpress statistics by

Kay Hack 1553 unique visitors across the week

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Method

Survey: Google form

Sent to: all 23

BYOD4L facilitators

and organisers

Responses received: 9

(39 %)

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Profiling

Initial expectations: 👤👤👤👤 Share best practices

👤👤👤👤 Enhance the use of TEL in their practice

👤👤 Evaluate new CPD opportunities

👤👤 Networking

👤 Being part of something innovative

👤 Involve colleagues in something innovative

Expectations met: 👤👤👤👤 Networking

👤👤👤 Learn about TEL and its use in Learning and

Teaching

👤👤👤 Level of openness and collegiality (sense of

community)

👤 Innovativeness

👤 Usefulness of the course

👤 Personal realisation

👤 Buzz around the course

👤 Disengagement from my institution

👤 Easiness or not of course design

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Strengths 👤👤👤👤👤 Share practices

👤👤👤👤👤 Networking

👤👤👤👤 Activities and course design

👤👤👤👤 Flexibility

👤👤👤 Sense of community

👤 Find expertise elsewhere

👤 Diversity

👤 Safe environment

- “To create opportunities for colleagues and students to learn more about how they can use their smart devices

for learning and teaching with peers from other institutions as this would widen their horizons and could potentially

extent their network.”

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Weaknesses 👤👤 Level of institutional support

👤👤 Too many tools/spaces

👤👤 Lack of recognition

👤👤 Monitor engagement

👤👤 Confidence

👤👤 Overwhelming

👤 Time

👤 Lack of structure

👤 Level of institutional engagement

👤 Course design (last synchronous activity)

“Because it is so flexible it’s not clear how to get the best out of it”

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Opportunities

👤👤👤👤 new internal CPD opportunities

👤👤👤 personal development

👤👤👤 building networks and collaborations

👤👤👤 new cross-institutional CPD opportunities

👤 new approaches for professional development

👤 research opportunities

👤 extend recognition opportunities

👤 flexibility

“Create sustainable solutions through joined development and sharing of expertise with

cross-institutional teams that can experiment with new approaches to professional

development”

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Threats 👤👤👤 recognition by institutions and management

👤👤👤 learning design paradigm

👤👤 monitoring quality and recognition

👤 alignment with professional frameworks

👤 level of commitment

👤 marketing

👤 lack of institutional support

👤 unclear

👤 data protection and intellectual property

”Some may struggle with the flexible approach to learning and seek the structured

approach a traditional course may take”

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What was valued

“It has been a

great experience

for us and one that

will participate on

again.”

“Open CPD is the future, provided a

great opportunity to engage with

like minded and inspirational

colleagues across the UK.”

“I enjoyed developing this course with my

colleague from another institution.

Together, we created something for

others and this helped us all develop and

create new professional relationships,

push our own thinking and practice into

new directions and carry out research

together.”

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Benefits and challenges of using

open courses for CPD

BENEFITS

• Develop new shared CPD provision

through collaboration with other

institutions could provide an effective/

efficient use of time and resources for

staff development teams

• Potential to develop new CPD offers

in areas where there is limited local

knowledge.

• Use these resources to provide local

F2F provision

• Enables colleagues to experience a

'course' in an free open and time

limited as a learner.

CHALLENGES

• Need for local support to supplement

online opportunities

• Breadth of activities can be daunting for

novice online learners

• Need a lot of confidence to take part

• Because it's is so flexible it's not clear

how to get the best out if it

• Uses many optional social media and it

can feel like you're in the wrong place or

other things are happening elsewhere

• Participation is rewarded with badges but

is this recognised?

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BYOD4L in January 2016: What will be

different as a result of this project?

- Recruiting facilitators: more balanced representation by support staff (Ac. Dev and

TEL) and academics in the disciplines.

- Recruiting student facilitators

- Improve institutional engagement and support, work more effectively within our own

institutions, also communication and marketing of BYOD4L

- Identify opportunities within collaborating institutions to link BYOD4L with CPD

schemes, institutional teaching qualifications and informal offers to gain recognition

locally and more widely (MMU example)

- Improve engagement monitoring, consider registrations at least at institutional level.

- Identify further non-UK based collaborating institutions to enrich the learning

experience.

- Continue the research we started to further improve BYOD4L and similar activities...

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Recommendations

• start small

• collaborate with colleagues and students across your institution and

elsewhere

• use expertise and resources already available, including OER, repurpose

and reuse

• identify effective ways to integrate cross-institutional CPD offers within

your institution, collaborate with the L & T teams, including TEL

• secure buy-in and support from management

• make explicit connections to UK PSF or other institutional CPD

programmes and initiatives

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Join us for the next learning adventure

BYOD4L January 11-16 2016

We are looking for institutional partners,

staff and student facilitators

Follow @BYOD4L and https://byod4learning.wordpress.com/ for updates

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What I will do within my institution in preparation for

BYOD4L in Jan 16 • Make more explicit links to existing CPD

opportunities to gain credits and work towards

professional recognition within MMU while

participating/facilitating in BYOD4L.

• Review MMU marketing of BYOD4L.

• Review MMU BYOD4L registration process.

• Review face-to-face event and find a more

effective way to attract more participants.

• Connect with the Student Union at MMU and

identify students who are interested in

participating and facilitating BYOD4L.

Chrissi Nerantzi

Manchester Metropolitan University, Principal Lecturer Academic CPD,

Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

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What I will do within my institution in preparation for

BYOD4L in Jan 16 • Work with our Head of Innovation and

Professional Development on a parallel

face to face programme at SHU

• Develop a communication strategy with a

wider reach to include email and social

media

• Build a local team of mentors to support

face to face as well as online during

#BYOD4L

• Create further multimedia ‘getting started’

resources (e.g. Twitter, a blog) plus a

virtual tour of the #BYOD4L website

Sue Beckingham

Sheffield Hallam University, Educational Developer

and Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing

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What I will do within my institution in preparation for

BYOD4L in Jan 16

• expand the provision of CPD including

more social media workshops

• include one hour in-house workshops

to complement the online week

• work towards the accreditation from

our CPD framework

• disseminate throughout the university

and inviting individually members of

staff and students

Dr Diogo Casanova, Kingston University London, Centre for Higher Education Research

and Practice

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What I will do within my institution in preparation for

BYOD4L in Jan 16

• I have identified additional facilitators

• Planned a drop in session in the

preceding week

• Establish a ‘local’ social space

• Plan post course event to share best

practice

• Work with Faculty PSF reps to promote

course and make explicit links to PSF

framework

Dr Kay Hack, University of Ulster, Partnership Manager, Faculty of Life & Health Science

add photo here

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What I will do within my institution in preparation for

BYOD4L in Jan 16

• Encourage more participation from staff.

• Build into CPD workshops focussing on

fully online delivery.

• Encourage more staff to lead and

participate in f2f sessions during the event.

• Promote through formal CPD

networks/activities.

• Make Students Association aware of event

(but it is exam week)

Sheila MacNeill,

Glasgow Caledonian University, Senior Lecturer, GCU LEAD (Learning Enhancement & Academic Development)

add photo here

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References Nerantzi, C. & Beckingham, S. (2015b) Scaling-up open CPD for teachers in higher education using a

snowballing approach , in: Rennie, F. (ed.) The distributed university, JPAAP Special Issue, Volume 3, Issue 1,

pp. 109-121, available athttp://jpaap.napier.ac.uk/index.php/JPAAP/article/view/148

Nerantzi, C. & Beckingham, S. (2015a) BYOD4L: Learning to use own smart devices for learning and teaching

through the 5C framework, in Middleton, A. (ed.) (2015): Smart learning: teaching and learning with

smartphones and tablets in post-compulsory education, pp. 108-126, Sheffield: MELSIG publication

Acknowledgements BYOD4L artwork created by artist Ellie Livermore @ellielivermore

The SWOT analysis image can be found at

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/SWOT_en.svg/1000px-SWOT_en.svg.png

> available under a creative commons licence