This document discusses reflective and formative learning spaces that have been developed at the University for the Creative Arts. The university has 7,000 students across 4 campuses and offers 90 courses in art, design, architecture, media and communications. New flexible learning spaces have been created using the Campus Pack platform to provide online spaces for student feedback, tutorial notes, personal development planning, work placement blogs, and activity dashboards. These learning spaces have benefited both students and staff by providing a central place for feedback and reflections, improving communication, and facilitating lifelong learning and assessment.

1. REFLECTIVE FORMATIVE SPACES
moulded around course pedagogy

2. - Guild HE university
- Specialist art and design education
- 4 southeast campus locations
- 7000 students
- 90 courses
- Art, Design, Architecture, Media & Communication
Campuses:
Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham & Rochester
MARIA TANNANT
Programme Manager in Digital Pedagogy
mtannant@ucreative.ac.uk
UNIVERSITY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS

3. - Flexible learning spaces
- Technology employed
- Development history
- Learning spaces:
…unit feedback
…tutorial log
…personal development
…work placement blog
- Sustainability
- Who benefits?
- Staff & student feedback
- Staff training & roll-out
PRESENTATION - overview

4. REQUIREMENTS – for flexible learning spaces
- Secure and private
- University owned
- Managed at course level
- Works with existing UCA systems and process
- Moulds with the course program and beyond
- Provides flexible modes of delivery
- Retained throughout the student’s lifecycle

5. TECHNOLOGY - employed
- Campus Pack (by Learning Objects)
- LMS integration (Blackboard)
“Our wikis, blogs, journals, podcasts and templates help
instructors and students create, present, and evaluate
interactive learning activities”. (Campus Pack, 2015)

6. DEVELOPMENT HISTORY – pilots to roll-out
- Unit Feedback space – year 3
- Personal Development space – year 2
- Tutorial Log – year 1
- Work Placement Blog – year 5
- Modified the rollover process for courses
- Faculty Management support
- Registry now on-board

7. LEARNING SPACES – unit feedback
- Assessment feedback repository
- 24/7 remote access
- Centrally held
- Holistic teaching & support
- Reflective and dialogic

8. LEARNING SPACES – tutorial log
- Tutorial notes held centrally
- Aide memoire
- Recording mechanism
- Joined-up approach

9. LEARNING SPACES – personal development
- Independent learning
- Reflective self-evaluation tool
- Articulates professional goals
- Develops criticality
- Fosters personal development planning

10. LEARNING SPACES – work placement blog
- Sharing experience
- Staying in touch
- Learning about industry
- Creating networks
- Reflective and evidence based
- Measures contributions

11. LEARNING SPACES – activity dashboard
- Monitor engagement
- Measure contribution
- Evidence tool for assessment

12. SUSTAINABLE and transportable
- Learning spaces reside in course area
- CP integrates with most LMSs

13. CUSTOMISATION – learning spaces

14. WHO benefits?

15. COURSE performance

16. COURSE performance

17. STUDENT feedback
Post-pilot student feedback revealed the project had been a huge
success. It identified the need for feedback to be uploaded in a
timely manner and be constructive and feed-forward - not
retrospective. Students felt the 2-way dialogue needed to be a
mandatory requirement otherwise very few would bother.
“The online space helped
me keep track of my feedback and
how I was improving over the units. I
think being able to set your own goals
and highlighting the main points of
improvement is a good idea
and would help more”

18. COURSE LEADER feedback
Course teams spend a lot
of time giving feedback to
students, but students do not
always remember or
understand their feedback,
making tutorials difficult and
ineffective.
Sessional staff also presented
concerns as many arrived ‘out
of the loop’ in terms of the
feedback chain and methods,
which can result in a disjointed
student experience.
“It’s a great way
of seeing the student’s
learning over time, it’s going
to be of even more value now
we are moving into the second
year – we can start to pick up
on comments from the
previous year.”

19. CAMPUS REGISTY feedback
- Easy to upload
- Great improvement on the old printed method
- Beats using pigeonholes or posted during summer break
“A simple cost effective
system allowing students easy
access to their present/past feedback
and saves a vast amount of
photocopying, paper
and time.”

20. STAFF TRAINING and roll-out
- Work with course teams
- Tailoring learning spaces
- Create templates to spec
- Workshops - to campus registry
- Demos – to Faculty Management

21. Thanks for your time!
View this presentation at: http://goo.gl/evB4xi
MARIA TANNANT
mtannant@ucreative.ac.uk
UNIVERSITY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS