Some thoughts around Learning Excellence from 2 enterprise educators.

1. EDUBITES 2017/18
Learning Excellence Series
Educator Perspectives

2. We have swapped the last 2 EDUBITES of
the year around…as we have
students…but they haven’t started yet,
so we need to give them a chance to find
some interesting things to share.
So, join us next time, and expect to be
involved in the Great Learning Excellence
Debate!
Introducing our
students…

3. Learning, with an entrepreneurial flavour
Source: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/tutuwawa/sensory-flavour-wheels/ http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC101581/lfna27939enn.pdf
…because our discipline doesn’t work without yours

4. Introducing Dr Charlotte Warin
• Global perspectives drawn from a recent trip to
Japan
• The enterprise education team also have
experience in Europe, US, Africa, India, China,
Australia

5. Areas for innovation which stimulate the engagement of our students and researchers:
Problems Needs Challenges Trends Insights
Using valued and robust sources of information:
UN Sustainable
Development Goals
RA Eng Global
Challenges
Industrial Foresight Open Innovation NCL’s Research
Excellence; Institutes
Priority Themes
(Funding Bodies; Govt;
Research councils)
Trusted principles of a learning and creation process:
Problem Validation Opportunity
Identification
Opportunity
Evaluation
Lean Innovation;
MVP, Early Adopters
Interdisciplinary Learning from failure
Modes of participation and engagement:
Coaching /
Mentoring
Authentic,
Experiential
curriculum
Design Projects;
Design for Industry
Extra/co-curricular;
placements
Innovation
Challenges
Accelerators / Start
Up
Knowledge exchange and application to build impact:
Employability Innovation Knowledge Transfer Commercialisation Intellectual Property Societal Impact
To produce resilient graduates able to tackle complexity and uncertainty in the face of unprecedented change.
Katie Wray, Lecturer in Enterprise (Science, Agriculture & Engineering) katie.wray@ncl.ac.uk 0191 208 3988
Entrepreneurial Effectiveness; the ability to function effectively as an entrepreneur or in an entrepreneurial capacity, for
example within small businesses or as part of 'portfolio careers, where multiple job opportunities, part time work and personal
ventures combine'. (QAA, 2018)

6. From Teaching to Learning..

7. What is teaching
excellence?
Removed:
• student /students
• learners / learning
• expectation
• teaching

8. What is teaching
excellence at NCL?
Removed:
• student /students
• Teaching

9. From a LEARNING perspective, what approaches
could we take as educators and what are the
challenges in achieving our desired approach?
• Draft Education Strategy (currently out for consultation)
• We know where we want to be but there is a big challenge in how we get
there
• The challenge of ‘un-do’ing’ some innate learning since childhood
• Preparedness of students to accept your style
• Do we get the feedback we need until the assessment
• The challenge of teaching a global market/context/expectation
• Engaging the student that already has the destination
• Etc……..

10. Old School Likely Today Ideal Scholarly Leading
Instructional
Approach
Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy Academagogy
Educator Role Lecturer Coach Facilitator Scholarship
Decision making Lecturer Student Student-Educator Negotiation
Student Role Passive Simulating Doing Co-creators
Centre of Learning Educator Shared Student Publication
EE Outcome Awareness Mindset Startup -
Learning About For Through -
Disposition Curious Engaged Confident
Motivation &
Readiness to Learn
Low Medium High Readiness to teach
1) (G)ogy, (G)ogy, (G)ogy…Oi, Oi, Oi
Adapted from Neck & Corbett (2018) Continuums of Entrepreneurship Education (EE)
and Jones et al. (2014) EE unification model
<------------------------- Ideal ------------------------>

12. 2) Inform – Participate - Validate

14. 3) Scenario – context/partnership - authentic

16. 4) Assess – toolkits - learn

18. 5) Do now – would like to do - challenges

20. What can we learn from Marshmallows…
And do we need to ‘break the rules of the oldest game in
town’? (Jones 2016)

21. How can our Newcastle Educators
Community help?
Please leave your suggestions on the flip
charts at the back…
Thank you!