Learning Landscape

Well I only have today and then one day next week in the office before I go off and start my new job.  This will be the last message from me on the blog, but no doubt it will be ably picked up by remaining team members! 

The meeting of the Steering Group last week was very well attended and went very well.  We presented on work to date, proposals for validating our findings so far and possible methods for engaging larger groups of staff.  The proposals were accepted with a small number of changes.  The methods of engaging students were again discussed, with more detail of the findings presented.  Again this was well-received.  Methods for engaging wider groups of students, and on working with recent alumni need to be agreed.  We will start work on this at our team meeting this week.

We have the fourth meeting of our Steering Group tomorrow with over 20 people attending. We have managed to get a date that a large number of academics can attend, I guess because most of the students have gone now, but most of the staff have not gone on leave yet. We are going to present to them on the 14 ‘coffee meetings’ we have had with various Faculties and Departments. These are initial meetings with one or two staff as a means of investigating issues to look into for that Faculty or Department. The members of the Steering Group are an initial point of contact so many have been involved personally in the coffee meetings. We will also report back on the student engagement part of the project to date.

At the last meeting of the Steering Group we were asked to produce a set of emerging themes from the investigations to date and that will form part of the discussion.