Student Engaged Educational Development: Mapping SEED Research at Winchester

Dr Tansy JessopSEED Research Meeting

14 February 2014

What is SEED Research?

Students engaging with educational development and quality enhancement Engagement in educational evaluation Engagement in enhancement research Engagement as change agents Engagement in curriculum redesign

Issues: how to involve students in the improvement of courses and teaching; how to set up partnerships between staff and students

Mapping SEED Research and Enhancement: Complex and diverse

Student Fellow

Scheme: 54 Student

Fellows, 30 projects

Internal and

externally funded

L&T projects

Faculty priority

research &

enhancement

Institutional priority research

and enhancem

ent

Student Union

research and

enhancement

Professional Services

research – IT, QA, Library, Student services

Individual

academic/stu

dent researc

h

Questions

How much of the activity is to do with educational development?

How do we define educational development? How broadly do we define educational

development?

“a term that tends to be reserved for the activity undertaken by those staff who specialise in enhancing learning and teaching”

Leadership Foundation

Kinds of student engagement

Students doing research/evaluation/enhancement of learning and teaching:

with staff for staff on staff-led projects on student-led projects with the student union for the faculty

Student Roles

Informants Representatives Participants Researchers Specialists Student ‘voice’, student ‘ears’,

student ‘minds’ Innovators Influencers

Mapping SEED research: Blogging on BA Primary (Fastech)

Develop research profile

Engage students more in

seminars

Learn research skills for

FYP

Learn to blog and produce public

material

Research/evaluation

Enhancement

Staff driver

Student drivers

Mapping SEED Research: TESTA

Deepen evidence

base beyond

NSS scores

Improve A&F

Provide student

voice data, contribute

to evidence base

Learn more and

achieve better

through A&F

Research/evaluation

Enhancement

Staff driver

Student drivers

Mapping SEED Research: Employability HSS

Deepen understanding

of employability data and issues

in certain disciplines

Develop package linked to disciplines to help students ‘ employability

prospects

Find out how to get a job, more about context, employment

stats, skill sets and

opportunities

Re-purpose package in

appealing and accessible

language and format for

fellow students

Research/evaluation

Enhancement

Staff driver

Student drivers

Mapping SEED Research: Island of Laputare

Publish and disseminate innovation

and findings

Improve innovation based on student ‘voice’

evidence

Develop research skills and co-publish with staff

Refine innovation based on

evidence for future

students

Research/evaluation

Enhancement

Staff driver

Student drivers

Mapping Grid

Actors: Main and supporting roles

Informants

Methods Content Beneficiaries/Audience

Purpose

Liz B,Psychology

2nd year Students, secondary data from websites, experts in the field

Interviews, focus groups, website scans

Setting up social media platform to help students transition from A-level to 1st year

1st year students;Psychology programme

To improve the entry student experience and create a climate of belonging for them

Dissemination

RKE Conference: April L&T day : 2 June SEDA Conference: May in Newcastle HEA Change Academy on Curriculum SEED Online Journal: to be launched

in June Other journals?