Presentation by Professor Simon Haslett at the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2015 at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen Campus.

1. Flexible Provision:
Rising to Challenges
in Learning and Teaching
An Institutional Context
Professor Simon Haslett
Dean of Learning, Teaching and Enhancement
and Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor
Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, 8th May 2015
University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen
@ProfSHaslett #uwtsdlte2015

2. Croeso Welcome
• Health and Safety
• Live streaming: http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/events/learning-and-
teaching-conference-2015.php
• Social media: Twitter hashtag #uwtsdlte2015
• Conference Programme
• Learning, Teaching and Enhancement Committee (LTEC)
• Learning, Teaching and Enhancement Strategy (LTES)
• Enhancement Unit
• Future Directions (FD) and Enhancement Theme

3. LTE Committee
Student
Experience
Technology
Enhanced
Learning
Faculties
Student
Services
FE Partners
Library &
Learning
Resources
Students’
Union
Enhancement
Groups
LTE Committee

4. LTE Strategy
Professional
Recognition
Research and
Scholarship
Professional
Development
• Institutional mission, vision and
strategic plan
• Three overlapping pillars
• Focused on staff and students
• Building capacity and resource
• Recognising and celebrating
experience and expertise
• Beacon of excellence in learning
and teaching

5. 1 Professional Recognition
HEA
Fellowship
PGCE tHE
PCET/PCE
MA PDET
CPD
Route
• UK Professional Standards
Framework (UKPSF)
• Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Fellowship
• HEA accreditation
• Aspirational professional
recognition aim of 100% of
academic and learning support
staff
• Support ‘Student Led Teaching
Awards’

6. 2 Professional Development
• CPD route to HEA Fellowship
• Professional development mapped to
the UKPSF
• UWTSD events:
• School/Faculty events
• Seminars and conferences
• Lunch ‘n Learn sessions
• External and international events and
communities, e.g.
• Future Directions
• Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Society for Research into Higher
Education (SRHE)
• International Society for the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)
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7. 3 Research and Scholarship
Research-
informed
Teaching
Research
Scholarship
Professional
Practice
• The University’s Mission states that
“The education we deliver,
underpinned by high quality research,
will be distinctive”.
• Scholarship of learning and teaching
and pedagogic research culture
• Research-informed teaching
• Launch Learning and Teaching Journal
• Establish Enhancement Groups to
develop R&S excellence in areas of
strategic priorities
• Audit R&S at Level 6 & 7 teaching
• Promote undergraduate research

8. Enhancement Groups
Linked to strategic priorities:
1. Bilingual education
2. Skills, Enterprise and
Employability
3. Sustainable Development
4. Technology Enhanced Learning
5. Research-teaching links
6. And more, it’s over to you …
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9. Enhancement Unit
• Supports LTEC and the implementation of the LTES, working
collaboratively in promoting, coordinating and monitoring:
• HEA Accreditation and Fellowship Recognition Panel
• Learning and teaching professional development activity
• Future Directions and Enhancement Theme activity
• Scholarship of learning and teaching, and pedagogic research
• A Learning and Teaching Journal
• Enhancement Groups linked to strategic priorities
• Audits of research and scholarship currency of staff teaching at Levels 6 and 7
• Research in undergraduate student learning e.g. BCUR, Student Researcher
• Communication tools and resources, such as website, Moodle, etc

10. Future Directions
• Owned by the Welsh HE sector, planned and directed by the Future Directions
Steering Group which is coordinated by the HEA
• encompasses the quality enhancement work being carried out in the Welsh HE
sector
• aims to enhance specific areas of the student learning experience
• encourages academic and support staff and students collectively to share current
good practice
• generates ideas and models for innovation in learning and teaching
• Inaugural Conference at Glyndwr University, 2012
• Second Conference at Aberystwyth University, 2014
• Current enhancement theme Global Graduates: Enabling Flexible Learning
• Three new work strands: (1) Distinctive Graduates, (2) Inspiring Teaching, (3)
Learner Journeys
• http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/wales/future-directions
• Next Conference April 2016 – venue to be confirmed.

11. Works Strand Group
Membership
UWTSD FD Work
Strand Groups
UWTSD FD
Institutional Team
Future Directions
(FD) Steering Group
Dean LTE
Dean of LTE (Chair)
UWTSD FD Work Strand Leaders
Student Representative
Distinctive
Graduates
(Leader: Jacqui Jones)
One representative from:
Each Faculty/Colleges
Students Union
Appropriate Support
Departments
Inspiring
Teaching
(Leader: Errietta Bissa)
One representative from:
Each Faculty/Colleges
Students Union
Appropriate Support
Departments
Learner
Journeys
(Leader: Liz Wilson)
One representative from:
Each Faculty/Colleges
Students Union
Appropriate Support
Departments

12. Enhancement Themes
• UWTSD Enhancement Themes have, in the past, been linked to
Future Directions themes and cycles:
• Students as Partners (2012)
• Distinctive Graduates (2013-14)
• Flexible Provision (2014-2016)
• For the next cycle however, the Enhancement Theme will be:
• Life Design (2016-2018)

13. Flexible Provision Theme
• What the Learning, Teaching and Enhancement Strategy says:
• Aligned with the Future Directions (FD) theme and works strands and will
make a significant contribution to FD activity.
• Relevant to the development of the SA1 campus and models of delivery.
• Explores flexible, blended and distance learning routes, and linked to
Technology Enhanced Learning.
• Addresses aspects of widening access to higher education.
• Informs student participation, retention and part-time study.
• Rising to some challenges in learning and teaching:
• Learning spaces
• Facilitating learning
• Improving the student learning experience
Diolch Thank you