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TELFest and its impact at the University of Sheffield. The presentation also provides links to discussions that took place during the session. The discussions explored starategies to promote the adoption of TEL.
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- 1. Supporting the adoption of TEL through TELFest Farzana Latif @farzanalatif TEL Manager, University of Sheffield
- 2. University of Sheffield Research intensive institution 27,000 students 5 Faculties (1 international) www.Sheffield.ac.uk @farzanalatif
- 3. Outline • Challenges related to the adoption ofTEL • Introduction toTELFest • The value and Impact • Share your strategies • How to go about implementing your ownTELFest @farzanalatif
- 4. Factors that Impact Adoption • Institutional/Departmental -lack of institutional direction and support • Individual - perceived lack of time (most cited, unsurprising, takes longer) resistance to change, lack of rewards and recognition, skills, self-efficacy (confidence) • Pedagogy -scepticism over the learning value Adapted from Birch and Burnett (2009) @farzanalatif
- 5. Strategies to Overcome @farzanalatif Workshops Exploratory Space Resources Platforms to Share Good Practice Adapted from: Walker et al
- 6. Share your Strategies https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/EXB4rM pk5n8szuE @farzanalatif
- 7. TELFest • Launched Sept 14, ran again Jan 15 and Sept 15, next June 16 • Sponsored by PVC Learning and Teaching • Bring together TEL Activity – Array of support previous not clear • Offer Timely Training Develop Practice • Surface Activity - Support Sharing of Practice Pedagogic Focused • ‘Create a Presence - Promote TEL • Flexible and Fun Space – Not • Run by TEL Team in Collaboration 7
- 9. @farzanalatif Something for everyone (‘right ’ balance) Beginners Advanced Pedagogical Focus and Practical Flexible and Timely Support Sharing of Practice Bringing together TEL Activities Supporting, not replacing previous support
- 10. @farzanalatif Incorporating Research • Call for participation – over 40 collaborators • Appealing to new and existing audiences • Announcements • Student Research • Invite institutional leaders • Connect with suppliers • E.g. Blackboard listening session • Launch NEW activities • E.g. Blackboard Exemplary course programme • Gain a better understanding of interest • ‘New Sessions’ most popular
- 11. “first chance to network with colleagues from outside my faculty since the L&T conference” - Delegate Feedback
- 12. Delivering Good Practice Provided us with experience @farzanalatif Gamifying - Making it Fun (Awards) Experience Different Delivery Methods Introducing Concepts – Experience as a student
- 13. Making it Fun 13
- 15. 175 Attended September 2014 Increased to 280 in September 2015 4 Average number of sessions attended
- 16. What kind of sessions would you run at these events? https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/KMqp2oPQ7YGHH0d @farzanalatif
- 17. “Learning new skills and finding ideas for innovative approaches to teaching.“ - Delegate Feedback “Variety of Content. “ - Delegate Feedback “A good range of sessions covering some interesting and topical TEL topics! I came away with some good ideas.“ - Delegate Feedback
- 18. Measuring Impact • Data Collection – Questionnaire (71 respondents) – Follow on Focus Groups (5 focus groups, 21 participants) @farzanalatif
- 19. 81%(n=4 7) have made or plan to make changes 0 5 10 15 20 25 Strongly Agree 5 4 3 2 Strongly Disagree 1 Attending TELFest gave me ideas to put into practice
- 20. Blended Learning Approaches • Allammary et al. (2012) reviewed different blended learning approaches and proposed three distinct design approaches: – Low impact blend: adding extra activities to an existing course – Medium impact blend: replacing activities in an existing – High impact blend: building a course from scratch the higher the impact, the larger the potential change will be to a course and to the student learning experience @farzanalatif
- 21. Types of Changes Made Low Adding a Twitter back channel to large classrooms, enhancing design of VLE Medium Introducing mobile learning activities, incorporating more game based learning activities High Redesign face to face teaching, moved to flipped learning model of delivery, redesign of assessment activities @farzanalatif 80% Low Impact 77% Medium Impact 32% High Impact
- 22. other value • Networking – Other colleagues – Professional staff • Identifying like minded colleagues – Invited to departmental events • Keeping up to date • Confidence Building • Raising awareness when the time is ‘right’ • Contributed to our online Hub @farzanalatif
- 23. Ongoing Barriers/Challenges • Raising the profile ofTEL (Institutional Barrier) – “I never thought about attendingTELFest before, I thought it was more for IT was more for IT Managers” • Departmental Culture (Institutional Barrier) – “it feels like my colleagues are behind the curve, things are almost stuck to where they were 30 years ago”. – “I think that we have a very supportive environment” 23
- 24. Ongoing Barriers/Challenges • Individual Barriers – “time to sit and focus on making the course as good as it could be” – “How long before I need to change what I do again?” – TEL Retreat • No Pedagogical Barriers – Nature of audience 24
- 25. Changes Ahead • Catering to an audience with a widening digital divide – Increasing parallel and ‘bite-sized’ sessions “… you have an impossible job of catering for people that don’t have a clue and others clue and others that are nuanced … you need a mix of sessions”. • On-going Support • More Student Involvement • Timing • Student Digital Literacy “We are racing ahead with using the technology, but the students aren’t always able to always able to use the technologies, so we need help and support for them” 25
- 26. Timing When do you find the best time to run staff development events are? http://Pollev.com/farzana 26
- 27. Sept 14 27
- 29. Sept 15 29
- 30. June/July 16 30
- 31. Developing own TELFest 1. Get a Senior Sponsor 2. Start with an agenda Get lots of input revise and revise Create flexibility (session type, audience) Integrate the use ofTEL 3. Capture the Event Twitter, Filming, Picture, Blog 4. Advertise Widely More people will come next time 5. Create a sharing and informal atmosphere Learning should be fun! @farzanalatif
- 32. Questions • WouldTELFest work for you? • Do you do something similar? @farzanalatif
- 33. Useful Resources • Website http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/telfest • Blog http://learningtechnologiesteam.blogspot.co.uk/ • TEL Hub http://tel.group.shef.ac.uk/ • Your Ideas http://padlet.com/farzana_latif/eli Contact Me: Farzana.Latif@Sheffield.ac.uk @farzanalatif @farzanalatif
Editor's Notes
- Ask audience where they are from
- Birch and Burnett, categorise Factors that impacting adoption into three broad groups, these are: institutional, individual, pedagogical. (Birch and Burnett) Institutional - lack of institutional direction, staff development, clear processes and standards, lack of money, culture at both and institutional and departmental level. Individual - lack of perceived time, has been cited as a biggest barrier towards the adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning in the last 4 iterations of the UCISA UK based Technology Enhanced Learning report. This is unsurprising, Vaughan(2007) in Alammary (2014) suggest that developing a blended course takes to three time longer than “a similar course in a traditional format”. I would add to this digital capability. Confidence with technology - Digital skills: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies/supporting-staff Hard to contextualise role of technology as their own experiences involved learning in traditional classrooms (Reilley et. al., 2012). also salmon Pedagogic Concerns - scepticism of the benefits, potential negative. unable to see the value (Walker et al, 2014). Birch(2009) - scepticism over the learning value. http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ843989
- Events Providing support and training to academic staff Exploratory Spaces Providing platforms for sharing good practice (e.g. networks; show and tell meetings)
- Appealing to new and existing audiences Incorporating innovation Surfacing activity already taking place Place to launch new events Active audience, enables us to gain a better understanding of interest ‘New Sessions’ most popular: e.g. Social Media, Flipped Learning, Innovation in teaching and learning
- Aimed primarily at academic staff, but also attended by professional service staff 27 SESSIONS
- Appealing to new and existing audiences Incorporating innovation Surfacing activity already taking place Place to launch new events Active audience, enables us to gain a better understanding of interest ‘New Sessions’ most popular: e.g. Social Media, Flipped Learning, Innovation in teaching and learning
- Representation from different faculty
- Ask questions to the panel before the sessions
- Based on delegate feedback we got the right balance
- Who we are What we do Name change
- Mentioned earlier how telfest is supplement to staff dev in the Uni, let alone outside activity.
- Mentioned earlier how telfest is supplement to staff dev in the Uni, let alone outside activity.
- 2. You don’t have to do everything the first time round