Welcome to the

Rich ExchangesConference

28th June 2011

The programme

Two changes:

– 11.40 Food for discussion

– 3.15 Developing the multicultural community of practice starting at induction

Posters: What do students think?

52 face-to-face semi-structured interviews

What does a Degree give you?

What do you think Graduate Attributes means?

What skills do you think you have developed by studying at Wolverhampton?

If an alien landed today and they asked you what’s special about studying at Wolverhampton – What would you say?

Enterprise needs to be contextualised by subject /course

Digital literacy needs to be contextualise by subject/course.

Do we need a university threshold that all students will have to achieve?

Global Citizenship: Explore interactive work between home and international students

Expert panels

knowledge exchanger and producer,

interpersonal and communication skills,

ethical and professional approach,

community player,

critical thinking,

cultural fluidity, 

innovation, 

creativity,

reflexivity

Characteristics?

Contextualised by subject/course

Stitched together by students

Building a web resource

Presentations

Practice-based case studies, including:

• Work Based Learning • Peer Supported Study • Developing the relationship between Home and

International Students • Community Projects that utilise ‘real life’ environments • Student-centred approaches

Dr Viv Caruana

Reader in InternationalisationCarnegie Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University

Co-Director of CAPRICentre for Academic Practice and Research in Internationalisation

Externally Funded Projects

ILE 2010/11

Global Citizenship as a Graduate Attribute: an ESRC Seminar Series

Led by the University of Wolverhampton with partners from: The Institute of Education, London University, University of the Arts, University College London and University of West London.

We aim to generate a theorised direction for global citizenship as a graduate attribute and an underpinning pedagogic direction for its encouragement. We anticipate that these directions will be sufficiently expansive to grapple with the dynamic and complex interrelationship between social differences and commonalities among humans.

ILE Project Leader: Professor Glynis CousinProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/globalcitizen

Disparities in Student Attainment (DISA) Project

The research explores the attainment gap between white and BME students through:

• data collection from students • engaging lecturers in action research to make changes to

modules and evaluate the impact of those changes • collection of naturally occurring institutional data to help

build a comprehensive picture of the attainment gap, to identify area of best practice and to roll out best practice.

ILE Project Leader: Professor Glynis Cousin

Project website: www.wlv.ac.uk/DISA

Learning to Teach Inclusively 30 credit ‘tailor-able’ module entitled ‘teaching inclusively’ aimed at teaching and support staff as part of accredited CPD

The module will reflect four key areas of inclusive practice:• curriculum design• curriculum delivery• assessment and • management

Overarching aim is to facilitate the development of inclusive practitioners across the sector and to enhance the academic engagement of all students.

ILE project Leader: Professor Christine HockingsProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/teachinclusively

An e-Portfolio based Pedagogy for SMEs (ePPSME)The ePPSME project has provided the Higher Education sector with reusable models and resources for an ePortfolio

based pedagogy to address the needs of SME enterprise-based learners.

Providing HE learning opportunities to work-based learners that are bespoke to the individuals’ learning needs.

Enabling staff development for work-based learning

Project Leader: Alison Felce

Project website: www.wlv.ac.uk/eppsme

An e-Portfolio Community of Practice (ePCoP) The e-Portfolio Community of Practice (ePCoP) project - JISC Benefits Realisation (BR) Project extending the work of ePPSME.

Includes:• a wide range of e-portfolio principles for work-based learners, • lifelong learning and employer engagement projects

to create and enable a more sustainable community of practice beyond the funding period for both ePPSME and the BR project.

Project Leader: Alison Felce

Project website: www.wlv.ac.uk/epcop

ePortfolio for Accreditation of Prior Experiental Learning (eP4APEL)

Building on our knowledge of ePortfolio pedagogy this project is exploring how and ePortfolio can be used to gather and package evidence that will allow for structured support and guidance to students who could make a claim for Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL).

Project Leader: Alison FelceProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/eP4APEL

Digitally Enhanced Patchwork Text Assessment  (DPTA)

This project developed the use of digitally enhanced patchwork text assessments (DePTA) in a range of traditional academic subjects. 

• Psychology (Bedfordshire and Wolverhampton)• Photography (Cumbria)• Archaeology (Liverpool)• Law (Derby)

The project is hosted by Cumbria University working collaboratively with the Universities of Bedfordshire, Derby, Liverpool, Wolverhampton and The Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA).

ILE Project Leader: Dr Megan LawtonProject website: www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=24876