Presented on 1st May 2014 at Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference (#BbTLC2014) at University College Dublin. This worshop encouraged attendeed to engage with materials created by Sheffield Hallam University as part of their Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) transforamtion project.

1. Developing a Menu of Teaching
Approaches to Encourage Deeper
Engagement with TEL
Brian Irwin, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning
Dr. Ian Glover, Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning

2. • 35000+ Students, 2100+ Academic Staff
• Blackboard Learn, Collaborate key institutional tools
• Many other online and physical technologies available
Sheffield Hallam University and TEL

3. Context
• Two big institutional challenges
 Consistency
 Not fulfilling potential of TEL
• Desire to transform student
experience through:
 More active learning
 More varied teaching approaches
 Better integration of technology
• National Changing the Learning
Landscape (CLL) initiative provided
an opportunity to address this

4. Project Approach
• SHU-based - covers practice
at SHU
• Grassroots - all academics
invited to take part
• Constant refinement -
updated from feedback
• Project steering group drawn
from across SHU, including:
 Students' Union
 Academics
 TEL support staff

5. • Survey -> Workshops -> Draft ‘menu’ and materials
• Follow-up staff and student workshops to generate
further information and refinements
Project Development

6. • Workshops
 Open to all; or
 Tailored for specific groups
• Training Faculty TEL staff
• ‘Restructuring’ TEL activity
• Promotion through:
 Blogs
 Mail-outs
 Targeting influencers
 Presenting to course / subject
teams
 Faculty and SHU conferences
Internal Dissemination

7. • Key resources
 The ‘Menu’
 Worksheet to develop action plan
 Workshop activities
 Student-developed online
version(s)
• Additional resources
 Case studies
 Alternative presentations
 Draft 'Top Trumps'
ALook at the Resources
Questions & Discussion

8. • Each group has an envelope with a scenario on it
• Open the envelope and take out a teaching approach
• Discuss how that approach might be used to address the
scenario, including the role technology could play
• Move onto the next approach
• Padlet site: http://tinyurl.com/SHU-BBTLC2014
Exercise: Typical Teaching Scenarios

9. Lessons Learned
• Senior support vital to get the non-'innovators' involved
• Local focus helps people see value in project
• Avoid jargon to help get, and keep, people engaged

10. Next Steps
• Expand current 'menu'
• Support faculty staff in running
workshops
• Workshop on PGCert
• Workshops for other institutions
• Follow-on project - APPETITE
• University strategy -
development & implementation

11. Discussion
• What would you do to get engagement from staff?
• How could you adapt this approach for your institution?

12. Contact
Blog: http://elearningatshu.wordpress.com