The UWE Enhancement Framework: Working with Programme Teams to Develop Outstanding Academic Programmes and Practice

1. The UWE Enhancement Framework: Working
with Programme Teams to Develop Outstanding
Academic Programmes and Practice
22nd Annual SEDA Conference: Developing Teaching Excellence: Supporting and Developing the Work of
Groups and Teams
St David’s Hotel and Spa, Cardiff. 16th – 17th November 2017
Elizabeth Cleaver
Director - Academic
Practice Directorate
Rachel Cowie
Director - Student
and Academic
Services

2. Outcomes of the session:
• Gain a broad understanding of the new holistic, team-led and team-based
approach to enhancement at UWE.
• Gain an understanding of lessons learned from its first phase of operation.
• Have opportunities to engage in a sharing activity about your own and others’
team-based enhancement approaches and experiences.
• Have opportunities to consider how others’ (including UWE’s) insights may be
useful in your own settings when engaging in defining and developing ‘teaching
excellence’.

3. The six guiding strategic principles
– Drawing together strategic projects
into coherent whole
– Creating both local resonance and
strategic relevance
– Enhancement-led and metric-minded
Designed to frame and enhance
• programmes of study
• teaching and learning focused
activities

4. 3 stage end-to-end process
– Pedagogic and curricular design
– Data-rich continuous
improvement approach
– Programme Enhancement
Review

5. Phase 1: Design Phase

6. January
UCAS Numbers
February
Board Stats, Module
Evaluation, Ex Ex
Reports
August
NSS, PTES
Sept/Oct
Registration Nos.
Data Task Force
November
Taking Stock/Good
Practice Meeting
June
Ex Ex Reports,
Module
Evaluations, Board
Stats, DHLE
Phase 2: Data-rich processes for
continuous improvement
Continuous Improvement Cycle
• Continuous interaction with data sets on dedicated web
interface
• Flags sent to programme leaders when new data
available for comment and reflection
• Responsibility and authority to programme teams
Monitoring, Governance and Exchange
• CI data commentaries signed off by HoD
• Sept/Oct: Data Task Force
• November: Good Practice Exchange Meetings

7. Step 1:
Initial Team
Meeting:
introduce EF and
PER
Step 2 :
Curriculum and
Pedagogic Review
and Development
Events
Step 3 : Submit
programme and
modules
specifications to
PER panel
Step 4
PER pre-panel
meeting
Step 5 PER Panel
Meeting
Phase 3: Programme Enhancement Review

8. Over to you...
On your tables:
• How has ‘teaching excellence’ been defined at your own institution?
• How far are groups and teams (i.e. programme teams, cross-institutional groups)
engaged in defining and developing strategically- led but locally relevant
definitions of teaching excellence?
• How is this team approach key to the success of this work? & How might further
collaborations be facilitated?
• What role can and should educational and staff developers play in this broader
process?
Be prepared to share with the wider group:
• one thing that you will take away from today’s discussions to consider in the
context of your own institution/practice.