Staff Development Day March 2023

If I want to check my essay for plagiarism, do I

• Make sure I copy the correct answer straight out of a library book?

• Ask my friend in the year above for a copy of her assignment?

• Use Check Your Work For Plagiarism in Blackboard?

• Change the odd word from what I copied off the internet?

What is this?

• Learning Design Framework & Toolkit Diagram.

• Bird’s eye view of a trivial pursuit playing piece.

• A cross section microscopic view of a stick of Scarborough rock.

• The new logo for NBC Television.

Answer explanation

· Show toolkit diagram with text.

· What is the toolkit?

· Co-designed with Jisc and a CreatorLab student.

· Based around a series of considerations course / module teams should discuss across 6 phases of a student’s learning journey.

· Underpins a lot of the work DX (particularly the Digital Learning Team) do and the conversations we have with colleagues.

What does ChatGPT stand for?

• Chat Grand Prix Teams

• Commercial Giant Panda Television

• Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer

• Chattanoga Green Pullman Trains

Answer explanation

ChatGPT can tell us...

How far has the reach of the Academic Transformation Programme extended?

• A.    Guidance for Online Learning Designers at TU.

• A.    TU staff teaching/designing online learning courses.

• Supporting TU Online Ltd staff in delivering online courses.

• Used by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).

Answer explanation

· The innovative Academic Transformation Program (ATP) is the CPD delivered by each Online Learning Designer in SLAR to academics who are co-creating online learning modules with the team and to teaching staff who are responsible for the delivery of online teaching.

· The ATP has influenced thinking across the sector in online learning through a co-authored QAA guidance: ‘Questions to Inform a Toolkit for Enhancing Quality in a Digital Environment’.

Which of these is an Adobe Creative Cloud application?

• Unigate

• Embleton Hall

• Arla

• Express

Answer explanation

Show some screenshots of the Digital Excellence Impact Case Studies.

Share a QR code linking to the Adobe Case Studies on LTE Online)

Who was the keynote speaker at the 2022 Future Facing Learning: The Education Revolution Conference, sharing their experiences and views on automation, the professions, education and the future of graduateness?

• Amrita Narang (QAA)

• Laura Pacey (McGraw Hill)

• John Sumpter (Jisc)

• Tony Randle (Shoosmiths)

Answer explanation

·  FFL Conference 2022 was our first national FFL conference with participation and attendance from across the country and from different institutions, organisations and professions. 

·   We really wanted to broaden this to be much more than TU, to discuss some key themes we’re all grappling with, to open people’s minds wider than just the education sector and to really provoke some thought. 

· 122 people attended the conference (with a fairly even split of TU v external) and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

·  Looking forward to running this year’s conference which will take place on Thu 15^th June 2023 and, through the lens of TU’s FFL Strategy and Core Areas, will be looking at:

· Doing Education Differently

· Investing in People

· Leadership and Partnership

· Motivations for Online Learning

DX won the 2022 global Anthology Catalyst award in what category?

• Teaching and Learning

• Leading Change

• Training and Professional Development

• Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

Answer explanation

·  Awarded for the CPD programme associated with the rollout of the Bb Ultra CPD in summer 2021.

· After winning the award, the Digital Learning Specialists (Russ, Simon and Emma) together with our Learning Design Officer Caitlin co-authored a blog post with Anthology and produced a short video to discuss the project.  You can find these by visiting https://www2.anthology.com/catalyst-awards/2022-winners

Share a QR code to the above link.