{"id":181,"date":"2021-03-08T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/?p=181"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:26:25","slug":"pandemic-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/2021\/03\/08\/pandemic-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Ups and downs of redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How is it possible to represent three and a half years of work in a poster?  About a  year ago Ros Beaumont and I met up to do just that.  Our project: the redesign of the HaSS PG Cert Research Methods involved a huge effort, the gantt chart was redrawn regularly,  there were dramas and ups and downs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We wanted to be honest about our struggles and to foreground the importance of the collaboration at the heart of the project.  So, we represented it as a board game, with ups (the ladders) and downs (the snakes).   It&#8217;s never a good idea to put an A1 poster on a blog post, but do have a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearning-Nuala-Ros-A1-Poster-V3.pdf\">closer look at it as a pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearningNualaRosA1-Poster-V3-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearningNualaRosA1-Poster-V3-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearningNualaRosA1-Poster-V3-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearningNualaRosA1-Poster-V3-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearningNualaRosA1-Poster-V3-1536x1085.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearningNualaRosA1-Poster-V3-2048x1447.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/files\/2021\/03\/BlendedLearningNualaRosA1-Poster-V3-1200x848.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The ladders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Early champions:<\/strong>  We wouldn&#8217;t have got off the blocks without Dr Adam Potts taking on the module lead for HSS8007 and the library team being willing to rework HSS8002.<\/li><li><strong>Teamwork<\/strong>: this was a shared endeavour, we had difficulties to overcome, we had to be open, supportive and bring a can-do attitude.<\/li><li><strong>Capturing Student feedback<\/strong>: early results showed that this was a positive experience for majority, the flexibility was great for diverse learners, including those new to UK HE.  Initial positive feedback helped us recruit collaborators.<\/li><li><strong>Building momentum<\/strong>: we also encouraged our early contributors to share positive stories and talk about the impact on their own development<\/li><li><strong>Review and revise:<\/strong>  we made annual adjustments in response to student feedback, eg. introducing a face to face session for HSS8002\/007 introduction and expectation setting session.<\/li><li><strong>Having a back catalogue<\/strong>: As more content was blended it became easier to articulate and model possibilities for new topic leads.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Snakes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Complexity<\/strong>: 32 contributors with competing priorities and workloads; inadequate time and a fixed project timetable &#8211; we needed to be able to deliver modules to students.<\/li><li><strong>Reconceptualising learning<\/strong>:  we had to take our contributors on a journey, to rethink their topics in a student-centred versus teacher-focused way, incorporating active learning and having a different relationship with students.<\/li><li><strong>Reality Check<\/strong>: Understanding what can be achieved by when, and when to acknowledge defeat and re-scope.<\/li><li><strong>Academic Presence and identity<\/strong>:  We found that pre-work familiarises students with the session leader without the involvement of the session leader. How then do they start a face to face session? <\/li><li><strong>Loss of Momentum:<\/strong>  Time pressures resulted in development of materials being put on hold \u2013 these though needed to be picked up later.<\/li><li><strong>Own goals<\/strong>: Not trusting expectations which had been set and using valuable in person time to repeat pre-work rather than extend and explore. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The enablers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Vision<\/strong>: Clear goals, Sell and keep on selling the vision to different audiences<\/li><li><strong>Expertise<\/strong>: Technology, pedagogy and content knowledge<\/li><li><strong>Project management<\/strong>: prioritising, monitoring<\/li><li><strong>Resource<\/strong>: Team members who have the project\/ work as major part of role or responsibility. Time for contributors to engage.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The poster was made for our Covid-cancelled 2020 Learning and Teaching Conference; but we managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.ncl.ac.uk\/learningandteaching\/posters\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/conferences.ncl.ac.uk\/learningandteaching\/posters\/\">submit this to the event in 2021<\/a> and won the poster competition! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it possible to represent three and a half years of work in a poster? About a year ago Ros Beaumont and I met up to do just that. Our project: the redesign of the HaSS PG Cert Research Methods involved a huge effort, the gantt chart was redrawn regularly, there were dramas and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/2021\/03\/08\/pandemic-perspectives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ups and downs of redesign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}