This document summarizes the agenda for Day 1 of the Change Agents' Network event in Birmingham. The day included sessions on principles of student engagement, sharing experiences of student-staff partnership projects, and shaping the future of the Change Agents' Network. Attendees provided input on how the Network can best support partnership working through surveys and an ideas wall. The day aimed to facilitate sharing of practices and identify barriers and successes in student-staff partnerships.

1. Change Agents’ Network EventBirmingham
17/03/2015
@CANagogy #JiscCAN http://can.jiscinvolve.org

2. Welcome to our 3rd CAN networking event
» Housekeeping
» Wifi code wifi8025 and extension cables
» Using the hash tag #JiscCan and follow us on @Canagogy
» CAN Event app
» Permissions for photographs
» Share your views – video and audio reflections with Chris and
Scott and Peter
» Delegate packs
» Expenses claim

3. CAN team
Sarah Knight, Senior
co-design manager, Jisc
@sarahknight
PeterChatterton,
CAN Consultant
@balham
Simon Walker,
Head of Academic
Development,
University of
Greenwich
@sialker
Dr Mark Kerrigan,
Director ofTL&A
Faculty of Health, Social
Care & Education
Anglia Ruskin University
@MarkKerrigan
Ellen Lessner,
CAN C0-ordinator
@levellearninguk
Clare Killen, CAN
Consultant
@clareJK
Paul Bailey, Senior
co-design
manager, Jisc

4. Event aims
» To facilitate the sharing of practice from students working as change agents, and
students working in partnership with staff on technology related change projects
across further and higher education
» To identify the barriers and celebrate successes in implementing such projects in
an institutional context
» To discuss the principles for effective student engagement and partnership
working in a digital context
» To explore the role of change agents/champions/pioneers and what skills are
required for such roles
» To capture effective practice to feed into the ongoing development of the Jisc
Student PartnershipToolkit
» To further develop and expand the Jisc ChangeAgents’ Network and explore ways
in which the network can support students and staff with their partnership
working

5. Andy McGregor
Deputy Chief Innovation Officer

6. Icebreaker
»Introduce yourself to someone you don’t know on your
table and share the following:
»On a yellow post-it record:
› Why are you here, what do you want to take away from
the event
»On a pink post-it:
› Write down one challenge you experience in
implementing staff-student partnership working in
your college or university

7. Background and context
» NUS Student Engagement model
» Use this model to evaluate your current
student engagement practices
» http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/campaign
s/highereducation/student-
engagement/toolkit/
» HEA Engagement through partnership:
students as partners in learning and
teaching in higher education -
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/engageme
nt-through-partnership-students-
partners-learning-and-teaching-higher-
education

8. Importance of working in partnership
‘In order for universities to foster more inclusive learning environments, we
believe that students must be empowered as active and participatory agents,
not as mere consumers, so that they can articulate their own conceptions of
what makes good learning environments, and work in partnership with
academics and administrators to realise these conceptions.’
The 2014 NUS Report, Radical interventions in teaching
and learning
Report available from http://bit.ly/1EjAtmt

9. A potted history of CAN
» Jisc Curriculum design and delivery projects
(2008-2012) – students as change agents
» Jisc Developing digital literacies projects
(2011-2013) – digital pioneers, co-
researchers, student fellows -
http://bit.ly/1aZunJW
» First networking event at University of
Greenwich- December 2012
» Second event at University of
Winchester – February 2014

10. http://can.jiscinvolve.org @CANagogy
» The Change agents’ network supports students working as change
agents, digital pioneers, student fellows and students working in
partnership with staff on technology related change projects
» Over 250 members subscribed to the CAN community mailing list
» Facilitates the sharing of best practice through
› Face to face networking events
› CAN monthly webinar series
› CAN case studies – launch of 2 institutional case studies
» Student partnership toolkit
What is the Change agents’ network (CAN)?

11. Launching the Journal of
Educational innovation,
partnership and change
http://can.jiscinvolve.org @CANagogy
» A peer-reviewed online journal
that welcomes articles, case
studies and opinion pieces
relating to learning, teaching and
assessment within the context of
students and staff as change
agents or working in partnership
» http://bit.ly/Jisccanjournal

12. http://can.jiscinvolve.org @CANagogy
» The award supports staff and students working in partnership on
curriculum innovation projects in UK further education and skills and
higher education
» Pilot course has over 90 participants registered and runs from March –
June 2015 with next cohort opening for registration in September
» Two modules – module 1 is formative and online through Moodle with
module 2 assessed by portfolio and should be taken whilst completing a
partnership or change project
» ContactMark Kerrigan for more information:
Mark.Kerrigan@anglia.ac.uk
SEDA accredited Jisc Institutional Change Leader award

13. CANLearn

14. »Mark to add slide on APL of event to SEDA award

15. » Download the app from
www.doubledutch.me/download/change-agents-network, or
search ‘Jisc events’ on the app store
» Select the option for your operating system
» Sign in with the email that you used to register forCAN
» Use the password ‘CAN2015’
» Speak to Katie or Jane if you have any problems
How to engage with the event

16. Surveys Surveys:
» Throughout the Change
Agents’ Network there will
be various surveys for
different sessions.You can
find and complete these
under the ‘surveys’ tab when
instructed.

17. Ideas Wall - have your say
What one thing should CAN do to
support student-staff partnership
working or you in your role as a
student change agent?Share your reflections
on the Ideas wall
What One thing? Padlet:
http://padlet.com/sarahknight/CAN
#JiscCAN

18. Reflection point – use
your reflection form
to note down actions
for your return to
your college or
university

19. For all event resources and reflections:
http://can.jiscinvolve.org

20. Enhancing the student digital experience
New online guide available
from:
jisc.ac.uk/guides/enhancing-
the-student-digital-experience

21. Find out more…
Change Agents’ Network:
Sarah.knight@jisc.ac.uk
http://can.jiscinvolve.org
Follow us @CANagogy
can@jiscmail.ac.uk visit
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CAN
Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND

22. Principles of Student Engagement (NUS) – sharing
the work fromThe Student Engagement
Partnership (TSEP) on the principles for effective
student engagement
Ellie Russell,The Student Engagement Partnership (TESEP), NUS

23. Survey results: http://bit.ly/1bbMumL

24. Relating the principles of student engagement to
your own context
Paul Chapman, Birmingham City University Students Union and Ellie Russell, The
Student Engagement Partnership, NUS

25. Reflections
Session chair: SimonWalker

26. Reflection point – use
your reflection form
to note down actions
for your return to
your college or
university

27. Sharing our experiences
Session chair: SimonWalker

28. When visiting projects
» 2 min pitches from projects followed by 5-6 15 minute
sessions
» Please record on the Delegate response cards:
› Provide examples of related practice (record something you
are doing that is similar)
› How will you deal with challenges? (record issues and
possible solutions)
› Emerging ideas (record new ideas)
» Pin up these cards on the poster boards

29. Reflection point – use
your reflection form
to note down actions
for your return to
your college or
university

30. Shaping the Jisc Change Agents’ Network – what
support do you need, what should CAN’s priorities
be, what can you offer the network?
CAN project team

31. Group activity
»What support could the Jisc Change Agents Network
offer you with supporting the implementation of staff-
student partnership working/working as a student
change agent in your institution?
»What can you contribute to the Change Agents’
Network?

32. Group activity
»What support could the Jisc Change Agents Network
offer you with supporting the implementation of staff-
student partnership working/working as a student
change agent in your institution?
»What can you contribute to the Change Agents’
Network?
› Record on post-its and share top support requirement
using survey in CAN App

33. Surveys Surveys:
» Throughout the Change
Agents’ Network there will
be various surveys for
different sessions.You can
find and complete these
under the ‘surveys’ tab when
instructed.
» Select Shaping the Change
Agents’ Network (1) survey

34. Survey results: http://bit.ly/1bbMumL

35. Change Agents’ Network – what we offer
» Ellen Lessner: ChangeAgents’ Network webinar series
» Mark Kerrigan: SEDA CAN InstitutionalChange Leader Award
» SimonWalker: Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change
» Clare Killen:ChangeAgents’ Network Case studies of institutional practice
» Peter Chatterton: Student PartnershipToolkit
» Paul Bailey: Engagement of employers in the ChangeAgents’ Network and
student projects

36. What one thing…
»What one thing can the Jisc Change Agents’ Network do
to support student-staff partnership working/student-led
change agency projects within your institution?
»What one thing can you do to support student-staff
partnership working/student-led change agency projects
within your institution?
› Complete the card
› Submit via the survey in the CAN app
› Use the padlet: http://padlet.com/sarahknight/CAN

37. Survey results: http://bit.ly/1bbMumL

38. Close of day 1 – dinner at RepTheatre @ 7 pm
Padlet: http://padlet.com/sarahknight/CAN
Tweet: @CANagogy #JiscCAN
IdeasWall
Reflection Form