Assessment, Learning & Teaching Reflections |
Wednesday 9 November
Fostering creativity in curriculum design is at the heart of academic renewal. If we are to be responsive to student needs, we need to transform the curriculum we deliver, pioneering new areas and refreshing those of which we are justly proud. We will seek to be innovative in our approaches to curriculum design, delivery and assessment, as well as in exploring subject areas perceived to be ripe for growth. Innovations will not be implemented for their own sake: instead we aim to review, select and put into our programmes innovative methods and new content areas that are research-informed, fit-for-purpose and productive of learning. To do so, we must acknowledge the importance of creativity and risk taking in curriculum development, while always ensuring that the student learning experience is safeguarded.
We have excellent opportunities to make use of our own CETL, the Institute for Enterprise , as well as those in which we are partners, Assessment of Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) and Active Learning in Computing (ALiC). Additionally, there are 71 other CETLs nationally with whom we can make productive partnerships, including Assessment Standards Knowledge Exchange (ASKe), who are supporting our work on plagiarism in April as detailed in What follows?
Sally Brown, PVC, Professor of Higher Education Diversity in Learning and Teaching
s.brown@leedsmet.ac.uk
