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This project has been designed to support 28 course teams in 15
departments involved in undergraduate teaching, in thinking about
new ways of encouraging high quality learning. The collaborative
research is being underpinned by research into the quality of student
learning and how it is influenced, not just by teaching and assessment,
but by the whole teaching-learning environment. The project is focusing
on five contrasting subject areas: biological sciences, economics,
electronic engineering, history, and media and communications.
The project team come from the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham
and Coventry, around which the collaborating institutions tend to
be clustered. A range of courses or modules have been identified
in each subject area and the researchers are working closely with
each course team to analyse learning aims and outcomes in relation
to their student intake. A focus of the study is on the constructive
alignment between aims and the whole teaching-learning environment:
in other words, on the match between the course teams' intentions
and students' everyday learning experiences.
Ways of improving provision are being explored with course teams,
based on conceptual frameworks being developed through the research,
and tailored to the specific subject areas. The effects of the changes
introduced will be investigated and reviewed with the course-teams
involved. Methods of managing change effectively will also be identified
and discussed, prior to extensive dissemination through the LTSN
and its subject teaching centres. |
