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Planning to make a difference

Success factors in the ANNIE Project

Jay Dempster

FDTL Conference, Manchester31st Oct – 1st Nov 2002

11 Apr 2023

Session topics

• About ANNIE• Organisation and planning• Project success factors• An impact framework• In-reach and Out-reach activities• Successful embedding by projects

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About ANNIE

• FDTL phase 3• Jan 01 – Mar 03 (27 months)

• Theatre & Drama• Enhance students’ learning experience

by:– Access to research-led teaching– Engagement in creative & collaborative

self-directed learning

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Organisation

• Warwick & Kent – De Montfort, Exeter, Queen’s Belfast, Lancaster, Manchester– London, Frankfurt, Vancouver, Kansas, Los Angeles– Pontypridd, Burton, Shrewsbury

• 2 project directors, 1 project manager • 2 educational developers• Local and remote lecturers, expert practitioners• 16 case studies: 12 in year 1 & 4 in year 2• ICT !

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Case study scenarios

A Videoconference seminars and workshops (group)

6

B Video sharing and discussion (group web) 2

C Software download and work (individual) 2

D Online learning support for face-to-face classes 3

E All of the above 1

F External examination 2

TOTAL 16

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Student-Tutor Interactions

1 remote expert local students

2 remote students

local expert

3 local+remote students

local expert

4 local students distance methods

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Planning activities

Development

DisseminationEvaluation

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Project success factors

• Project organisation• Project roles• Communication• Project structure• Project activities• Partnerships• Project engagement

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Planning for impact

• What do you feel could be done to assist the impact of projects?

– By the project itself?

– By senior management or other central units in your institution?

– By the funding body/programme team?

– By others?

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An impact framework

• Project operational context: – Planning for impact– identifying stakeholders

• Institutional context: – In-reach activities: – informing local knowledge

• Wider context: – Out-reach activities: – making things happen elsewhere

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Project operational context

HEFCE

LTSN

JISC

NCT

ILT

Socrates

FDTL

ESRC

SCOTCITALT

Subject communities

SEDA

HE institutions

peopleprojects

support

funding

SHEFC

“beyond HE ”

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Institutional context: in-reach

PROJECT TEAM

Academic staff

Department 1

Institutional partners

partnerships

communicationimplementation

planning

L&T units

IT dept Library

Department 2

Lead institution

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Consortium activities

•Collaborative shared roles/activities

•Parallel within shared framework

•Centralised with development led by lead institution

In what ways does this influence priorities for planning your project’s activities?

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Wider context: out-reach

PROJECT TEAM

Academic staff

Department 1

Institutional partners

partnershipscommunication

implementationplanning

L&T units

IT dept Library

Department 2

Lead institution

? ? ?

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Group discussion

• IN-REACH IN LEAD INSTITUTION

• OUT-REACH IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS

• IMPACT BEYOND DISCIPLINE & HE SECTOR

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In-reach activities

Top 5s

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Out-reach activities

Top 5s

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Evaluating the impact of ANNIE

• Approaches that led to good impact in the institutions

• What kinds of in-reach and out-reach activities were effective

• How the project is moving from innovation to embedding

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Approaches that led to good impact across institutions

• Project led by pedagogy not technology

• Culture of support for innovation and reflection on teaching practice

• IT service keen to overcome technical barriers to remote access to and from the university

• Pre-existing links between tutors and student groups in partner institutions

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What kinds of in-reach and out-reach activities were effective

• Tutors experiencing personally the benefits to students through the new approaches that led to real changes in teaching practices

• Engaging distant experts using simple technology

• Students were excited by their learning experience and developed sophisticated new skills

• Managing expectations – learning from failure

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How the project is moving from innovation to embedding

• Demonstrate how realistic the new methods are

• Provide practical guidance

• Capture experiences to inspire and enthuse others

• Scaling up, repetition, getting braver

• Word of mouth: departmental culture, the students voice

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Factors experienced by national projects

• Timing• “Timeliness is crucial and impacts a lot.” • Personal investment• “individual enthusiasm “• “incredible energy and commitment of the individuals“• “dedication and hard work despite short term nature of the

funding”• Good collaborations• “willing to go and share ideas with others” • “happy for [their] materials to be used and adapted” • Champion in policy position• “People are desperately influential.” • Staff development angle • “connecting with academics” and “listening approaches”• Ability to adapt to local, emerging demands• “diversified to meet a wider audience”

LTSN Generic Centre project

http://www.telri.ac.uk/Transfer/ltsngc/ltsngc.htm

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Successful impact

• “We opened up a lot of channels of communication between institutions. And since the project has finished, that activity seems to be continuing “

• “The skills, the knowledge and everything is in the people concerned. That’s the really valuable thing.”

• “not a big impact to the sector, but immense benefit to those institutions engaged in the project”

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more@

annie@warwick.ac.uk

http://www.ukc.ac.uk/sdfva/ANNIE/

http://www.telri.ac.uk/Transfer/ltsngc/ltsngc.htm