Wednesday 15 December 2010

HEA publication "University Management of Work-based Learning"

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/employability/employeelearning/EEL_UniversityManagementOfWBL.pdf

I have finally tracked down this HEA publication that came out in August 2010. It includes  a chapter on "Reorientating institutional systems to support the flexible learner" by M. Noble, S. Frame & C. Eustance and includes some of the early insights from the UG-Flex project.

Interesting to see how UG-Flex has progressed since.

T-SPARC comes to Greenwich

I’ve had good feedback from colleagues who attended the VOXUR training session run by Oliver Jenkins from BCU's T-SPARC project last week. VOXUR really is straightforward to use. It is such a clever concept that it is not that surprising that one question asked was whether there are other products that do the same thing cheaper/easier still? The answer appears to be no!


It was very encouraging to note that my colleagues were as intrigued as I have been by BCU’s innovative work that seeks to shift the focus on curriculum design from a single concluding approval event to the wider thinking and processes that underpin curriculum approval and review.

All in all a worthwhile session. Thanks Oliver and Paul from BCU for your generosity in lending UG-Flex one of your VOXUR units until the end of January. Thanks also to my colleagues for taking the time to attend. All suggestions of similar sessions UG-Flex might run are very welcome.