Implementing Student and Employer Engagement in Developing Flexible Learning
An HEA Individual Teaching Development Grant funded project
We’re pleased with our success in bidding for an HEA Individual Teaching Development Grant. This will support a project to engage potential end users – students, prospective students and employers – in our process to design flexible forms of postgraduate provision appropriately aligned to their needs: Implementing Student and Employer Engagement in Developing Flexible Learning (I-SEED-FL).
It also fits neatly with our over-arching Flexible Learning Project here at The University of Bath and alongside our JISC funded FLeXchange project, providing academic staff development for flexible teaching.
All three projects are responding to the anticipated changes in postgraduate student needs – the impact of increased student debt from higher undergraduate fees, demand for work-relevant courses and competition from international providers on the demographic of UK postgraduate students over the next 3-5 years. We propose that students will be increasingly mature, in employment, studying remotely and requiring flexible provision. Aligning learning outcomes to work-related objectives and employer needs will be crucial to remain relevant and this fund this HEA funded project will explore evidence-based approaches applicable across disciplines and institutions.
It’s great to have these three projects complementing each other, enabling us to take an holistic approach to our overall aim of exploring and developing a protocol for the delivery of postgraduate education through flexible delivery modes.
Find out more about I-SEED-FL on this page.
FLeXchange 