OCSLD support for implementing the Strategy for Enhancing the Student Experience

Implementing the Strategy for Enhancing the Student Experience 2010-15

The Strategy for Enhancing the Student Experience (SESE) 2010-15 (linked to pdf) represents an important articulation of how we will ensure that learning and teaching at Brookes will continue to be at the leading edge.

Oxford Brookes Graduate and Postgraduate Attributes

The SESE outlines much that is familiar and distinctive about the Brookes curriculum through the specification of five core graduate attributes:

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Download a copy of the graduate (PDF 438KB) and postgraduate (PDF 98KB) attributes.

Taken together, a curriculum that provides opportunities for students to develop these attributes should enable them to develop skills that enhance their employability and potential contribution to society.

The SESE also makes a number of other important commitments:

  • to engage students in shaping their learning experience
  • for all staff who support student learning to undertake annual continuing professional development related to their teaching and/or support of learning
  • to conduct evaluations of our pedagogic developments (OCSLD also offers consultancy and events for those conducting pedagogic research and welcome commissions for further evaluative work. See wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/pedres).

OCSLD is offering a suite of staff development resources, events and consultancy to support the implementation of the Strategy for Enhancing the Student Experience.

  1. Workshops to explore the graduate attributes

    Awareness raising sessions and workshops are an opportunity to discuss what each attribute means in the context of your subject and consider how it might be taught, practised and assessed. You can ask your OCSLD Link Developer for a general overview session or a workshop around a single graduate attribute, perhaps as part of a Faculty or Department meeting or away day.
  2. Online resource collections

    The Graduate Attributes in Action wiki has links to case studies, tools and templates from Brookes staff on how each of the attributes are taught, practiced and assessed. We are developing resources to assist staff with information about and tools for working with Graduate Attributes. These include PowerPoint presentations, case studies of Graduate Attributes in action and tools and templates for mapping graduate attributes across programmes. They are available in the RADAR Teaching Collection. To retrieve them, login to RADAR as a Brookes user, visit the Teaching Collection and Browse the Graduate Attributes category.

    You may have good examples or case studies of your own to add to the RADAR collection. If you do want to contribute a resource, contact the RADAR project manager, Steve Burholt.
  3. Programme design initiatives

    The course design intensives (CDIs) bring together staff and students to plan for the development of one or more of the graduate attributes across a programme. You can arrange a CDI for programme teams who are preparing for redesign, accreditation or validation.
  4. Consultancy and action learning sets

    are for individuals and small groups who want to develop personally and also take action linked to the SESE. For example, you might want to review your current arrangements for student participation and representation or bring together a group of staff with similar roles e.g. programme leads or interests e.g. digital literacy. OCSLD can provide a facilitator to start up and initially support the group.

Continuing Personal and Professional Development
OCSLD can provide guidance on addressing the requirement to undertake personal and professional development related to teaching and/or supporting learning, including the peer enhancement of learning and teaching and professional dialogue.

For further details, to discuss your requirements or make a booking, please contact the OCSLD developer for your Faculty or Directorate.

 

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