1. Peter Chatterton, Sarah Knight, Mark Kerrigan, Simon Walker
Instituting student partnerships: a workshop to explore approaches and effective practice.
8/7/2014
Peter Chatterton, Sarah Knight, Mark Kerrigan, Simon Walker
#CAN2014

2. Welcome and introductions
Simon Walker, Head of Academic Development, University of Greenwich
@sialker
Dr Mark Kerrigan, Director of TL&A
Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education
Anglia Ruskin University
@MarkKerrigan
Peter Chatterton, Consultant
@balham
Sarah Knight, Senior Co-Design Manager, Jisc
@sarahknight

3. Change Agents’ Network – Students as partners
Rachel Wenstone, Vice President (Higher Education), NUS
‘Students as partners is not just a nice-to-have, I believe it has the potential to help bring about social and educational transformation, as long as we know what we are trying to do and we maintain a critical attitude about the ways the concept is adopted and used.’  
A Manifesto for Partnership (November 2012)
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4. Ways of engaging students in the digital environment
Gathering information - Surveys, interviews, focus groups to find out about student expectations - Participative / observational methods to explore practices and attitudes - Social media – with students' consent – to collect information - Analyse existing data e.g. NSS/USS/ISB/PRET/local surveys
Stimulating, gathering and responding to ideas - Interactive and fun e.g. crowdsourcing, hashtags, ideas tree, padlet Make sure students can share ideas and see how they are acted on
Representation
Partnership projects: 'making things better‘
See Jisc Digital Student Study –

5. Background and context
NUS Student Engagement model
Use this model to evaluate your current student engagement practices
s/highereducation/student- engagement/toolkit/
Recognition of the importance of staff - student partnership working in curriculum innovation projects involving technology
Using the four-stage picture of engagement as a reflective tool, this exercise challenges students’ representatives and institution managers and academics to evaluate their current
student engagement practices. The focus of this task is to think about the outcomes of engagement activities and the impact that policies and practices have on students.
Feedback from students
Representation
Curriculum design

6. Benefits of engaging students
Benefits for students:
Gain an experience of leadership and influencing change.
Gain experience of using research to shape change.
Students can gain recognition through awards such as leadership awards, academic credit, extra-curricular awards and awards accredited through external bodies.
Enhances student experience.
Increases confidence & skills (e.g. communication, team-working, management, research skills).
Enhances networking with e.g. employers, community.
Improved employability and job prospects.
Peter

7. Benefits of engaging students
Benefits for staff:
‘… the novice-expert dynamic has been overturned. Two years into the project, we have observed and reflected on the fact that it is not us who are privileging the Student Fellows by awarding them with these important roles, but rather we who are privileged because of the insights we have gained from being allowed into their worlds. Student Fellows have given us an honest insight into what goes on behind the scenes when technology is brought into the mix and how re- shaping feedback influences their confidence, self-belief, well-being, subject knowledge and collaborative skills.’
Bath Spa University and University of Winchester, FASTECH project
Peter

8. Change Agents’ Network @CANagogy #CAN2014
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Enhance student change agents’ understanding of effective practice and change issues.
Identify and share effective practice in the area of students/student groups as change agents working in partnership with staff.
Provide a forum for support and sharing of ideas with events and webinars.
Create and link to resources to support staff and students promoting the use of student change agents sector wide.
Developing a framework to support accreditation through SEDA and possibly ILM.
Developing an open access Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change – call in April and launched in Autumn 2014.
Sarah

9. Accreditation – Institutional Change Leader
….in progress
Accreditation via SEDA
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Developing digital literacies

10. Journal of Educational Innovation , Partnership &Change
Opinion Pieces 
Case Studies / Project reports
Research Articles 
Book Reviews 
Technology Reviews 
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Developing digital literacies

11. Supporting staff and student partnerships
A series of resources to support staff and students in instituting student partnerships:
Practice points
Viewpoints for student partnerships
Case studies
List of benefits
Useful links
Educational agency initiatives

12. Viewpoints: a framework/process to support change
Originally developed by the University of Ulster
Funded by Jisc Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design Programme ( )
Original focus on curriculum design, assessment and feedback
Adapted to different contexts e.g.
Flexible Curriculum
Student Partnerships
Digital Literacy
Work-based learning
Jisc Design Studio page:
Sarah

13. Change Agents’ Network – Viewpoints Toolkit
Supporting staff and students in:
setting up and implementing partnerships with students (including students as change agents)
developing student and staff capabilities (including implementing accreditation)
evaluating and sustaining student partnerships
The toolkit:
a set of (good practice) “Viewpoints” cards (practice points/top tips)
a web-site with resources – linked to the Viewpoint cards
a proposed methodology for using the toolkit
A community of practice:
helping to inform and shape the toolkit join
using it (piloting…….. embedding)
refining it and maintaining its currency
Peter

14. Viewpoints: a framework/process to support change
Peter

15. The Resource Kit for Staff
Questions about the resources?

16. Opportunity to experience the Viewpoints toolkit
Partnership set-up
“Your VC wants to improve your NSS ratings and believes that student partnerships can help this and has tasked you and your colleagues to take this forward. Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan”.  
Partnership implementation
“Your VC wants to improve your NSS ratings and believes that student partnerships can help this - another member of staff has developed an outline plan and you and your colleagues are now tasked to take this forward. Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan”.   
Capabilities, development and accreditation
“You and your colleagues have been tasked by the PVC (Student Experience) to focus on developing capabilities and accreditation for students and staff involved with student partnership initiatives. Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan”.  
Evaluation, impact and sustainability
“Your institution has undertaken two successful pilot student partnership projects and you and your colleagues have been tasked to sustain and embed these - Use the Viewpoints cards to create a prioritised plan.”

17. Discussion Would the Viewpoints toolkit be useful in your institution?
Does it need amending/developing further?
Would you want to customise it?
Do you have any case studies to add to it?

18. Find out more…
Change Agents’ Network
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