New ways of being and belonging: developing approaches to the new student/staff experience in Higher Education
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The document discusses challenges and questions related to supporting new and continuing students in higher education during the transition to online learning due to COVID-19. It addresses how to help students transition to online learning, reposition pedagogical practices beyond just delivery mode, ensure an equitable experience for all students, consider the relationship between home/digital/campus environments, and support a sense of belonging within online and socially distanced learning communities.
New ways of being and belonging: developing approaches to the new student/staff experience in Higher Education
- 1. New ways of being and belonging: Developing approaches to the new student/staff experience in Higher Education London Met Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2020 Sheila MacNeill (@sheilmcn) This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
- 2. Challenges and BIG questions • What are we doing to help new students transition to online learning for September, and to support new and continuing students beyond initial induction? • How are we repositioning pedagogic practices and the curriculum beyond mode of delivery? • Are we doing enough to re-think time and space(s) for learning with respect to learners’ individual capacity to engage in formal learning activities, timetabling of courses, the technologies learners have at their disposal, and ensuring an equitable learning experience for all? • How are we considering the relationship between the home, digital and campus environments in relation to online learning and the hybrid models of learning and teaching we will more towards? • How can we support our learning communities (within programmes of study and the university) to ensure a ‘sense of belonging’ within the context of online and socially distanced learning and teaching?
- 5. The myths around university learning and teaching and the need for counter narratives This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BYThis Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
- 7. The great online pivot: what, and who, is being pivoted? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
- 8. • “Many students from low- income families like Charles- Cregan’s lack the basic technology they need to study online, including access to a laptop and a reliable broadband connection, along with a quiet place in which to work and complete assessments”. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/may/04/i-cant-get-motivated- the-students-struggling-with-online-learning
- 9. Physical v social, space and place How to “be” at university? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
- 11. Revisiting the student experience Focus on 1st year – cancelled exams, no end of school rites of passage, where are the socialization opportunities? Rethinking induction Flipping the curriculum, rethinking our spaces (digital & physical) Redefining engagement for students (and staff!) Focus on digital capabilities (personal and institutional) Co production opportunity Giving ourselves time to work with students, action research on what engagement means now
- 12. Challenges and BIG questions • What are we doing to help new students transition to online learning for September, and to support new and continuing students beyond initial induction? • How are we repositioning pedagogic practices and the curriculum beyond mode of delivery? • Are we doing enough to re-think time and space(s) for learning with respect to learners’ individual capacity to engage in formal learning activities, timetabling of courses, the technologies learners have at their disposal, and ensuring an equitable learning experience for all? • How are we considering the relationship between the home, digital and campus environments in relation to online learning and the hybrid models of learning and teaching we will more towards? • How can we support our learning communities (within programmes of study and the university) to ensure a ‘sense of belonging’ within the context of online and socially distanced learning and teaching?
- 13. Thank you for listening • Q&A • Sheila MacNeill • [email protected] , @sheilmcn • https://howsheilaseesit.net/
- 14. Related links • https://www.alt.ac.uk/communityResources • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/21/if-we-can-do-without-gcses-and-university-exams-now-why-go-back • https://inews.co.uk/news/education/coronavirus-top-uk-universities-hybrid-online-face-to-face-teaching-2861327 • https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/may/20/uk-universities-facing-760m-hit-one-in-five-students-plan-defer • https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/how-open-campuses-or-not-test-university-leadership • https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/pedagogy-of-care-covid-19-edition/ • https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/you-re-being-watched-and-recorded-every-breath-students-unsettled-by-exam-software- 20200519-p54ucb.html • https://www.academia.edu/36834708/A_typology_for_a_social_justice_approach_to_assessment_Learning_from_universal_desi gn_and_culturally_sustaining_pedagogy • https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/induction-creating-socially-distanced-campuses-and-education-project • https://wonkhe.com/blogs/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-were-offering-a-full-student-experience/ • https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/17/students-want-to-confront-it-academics-on-how-to-decolonise-the- university