Assessment, Learning & Teaching Reflections |
Tuesday 31 January, 2006
After the Staff Development Festival finale, Simon Lee encouraged Leeds Met staff to consider using our talents differently. As a result, this week, I officially started 12 months secondment sponsored by Carnegie Faculty. Together with my appointment as Teacher Fellow for the CETL Institute for Enterprise and working with Joy Kumar’s team on Change Management, I intend working on the “bigger picture” based on the jigsaw pieces of my own university experience.
My pan-university activity will include a focus on how e-Learning can be a vehicle to apply sound pedagogic principles, exploration of the benefits of reusable learning resource repositories, Assessment, Learning and Teaching encouragement, strengthening of links with partner colleges and international perspectives. Leeds Met has already committed to an enterprise-wide use of e-learning, coming very soon. If we are to thrive, not just survive, we should adopt smarter teaching approaches that can enhance the student learning experience and provide staff with appropriate support. A Leeds Met student should be Enterprising and Engage in an Exciting yet Enjoyable Educational Experience supported by Enthusiastic and Encouraging staff. e-Learning has the potential to sustain this more effective blend of Assessment, Learning and Teaching and could help Leeds Met do it with eeee’s.
Stuart Hirst
Principal Lecturer and Teacher Fellow
Carnegie Faculty of Sport & Education
