Improving access to HE – Innovative pedagogies and practices Ruth Helyer Kerstin McClenaghan University of Teesside
Mar 28, 2015
Improving access to HE – Innovative pedagogies and practices
Ruth Helyer
Kerstin McClenaghan
University of Teesside
Engaging employed learners
• Accredited in-house training• Work-based Studies Degree• Project Activities• Summer University• VLE Development
Work-Based Studies Degree
• UoT Work-based learning degree course• Uses the APL process• Builds university level learning around
jobs and careers, focussing on areas directly related to employment
• Work-based projects• Flexible delivery: core modules on
evenings and increasingly online• Students access the 6 academic schools• Up to 8 years of part-time study
Project aims
• To engage with at least 79 local Small & Medium Enterprises (SME’s)
• To offer HE level training to new employed learners
• To enrol 282 of these new learners• To show evidence of CPD• To train 20 trainers
• Funded by the LSC
How?
• Accredit appropriate existing in-company training
• Write new programmes of learning• Use existing modules
• Or some combination of these
• Meet identified staff-development needs: higher level skills for managers
• Develop potential to deliver UK wide
• Utilise in-house trainers• Build relationship with company for
future activities
Accredited in-house training: e.g. Bells at Sainsbury’s
• 3 x 20 credit modules– Personal Development – People Management – Business Appreciation
• Learning / Contact time: 600 hours
UCAPD: Resource Management in the Retail Sector
Sainsbury’s at Bells Stores
“The learning exceeded company expectations with the programme benefiting the candidates on both a professional and personal level. The organisation benefits from having a group of more confident and competent managers”.
Project Evaluations
• Open & Distance learning• Subsequent cohorts• VLE interaction• Learning through Work platform
E-learning & Blended Learning
• Repository for ‘traditional’ materials 24/7• Additional online resources and learning
materials• Lecture presentations, also as podcasts
for distance learners
• Social interaction– Wikis / Blogs / Online journals
– Discussion forums
VLE (Blackboard) for WBL
• peer collaboration• peer support
• rate posts / grade forum -> can be marked
Comments
Journal entries
Flexibility Access / time of day (April 2007)
Contact details
Ruth Helyer
Kerstin McClenaghan
Centre for Lifelong Learning
University of Teesside, UK