This paper analyses the outcomes of a collaborative research project, involving six higher educat... more This paper analyses the outcomes of a collaborative research project, involving six higher education institutions in the UK, exploring relationships between learning, teaching and research in art and design.
This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Education at UBIR: University... more This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Education at UBIR: University of Bolton Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Education: Book Chapters by an authorized administrator of UBIR: University of Bolton Institutional Repository. For ...
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 2015
Aim: This paper explores the development of partnerships initiated in 2005 by one of the authors ... more Aim: This paper explores the development of partnerships initiated in 2005 by one of the authors through existing links with the Art, Design and Media subject centre of the Higher Education Academy (ADM-HEA). It looks at the continued evolution of collaborative activity over a number of evidence-based projects from 2006 to the present day. A special feature of the partnerships includes collaborative working between staff working at a range of levels in a variety of contexts including Higher Education in Further Education (HE in FE). The varied constituency of the network is innovative in that it cuts across institutional hierarchies and disciplines within Art, Design and Media and allows for the interests of individuals whilst serving institutional agendas. Here, the means by which this has been achieved is explored, as is the network's focus on evidence-based practice. This has enabled and encouraged a collaborative and creative approach to the research proposed and undertaken by the group. Outcome: In addition to highlighting the ways in which institutional and disciplinary boundaries can be transcended. The images and accompanying oral presentation will outline the processes by which projects have been conceived, bids written, funding sought and dissemination of the findings accomplished, providing a potential model for colleagues wishing to undertake similar evidence-based collaborative activity.
This work in progress report presents on-going research of the challenge and evaluation faced dur... more This work in progress report presents on-going research of the challenge and evaluation faced during the implementation of pilot studies of an ePDP exercise in the School of Arts, Media and Education at the University of Bolton in the UK. The inclusion of personal development planning is a University requirement for all programmes and was traditionally embedded through either text based and/or visual journal approaches used in the SAME (The visual journal has and continues to be an important aspect of personal development for Art & Design students at the UoB). With the emergence of new technologies that could support the traditional PDP the school explored a more flexible approach using an open source VLE (Moodle) to implement the existing PDP framework. The experience provided the school with data to inform full implementation of ePDP through Moodle and to further explore the optimum process, infrastructure and research that was needed to support future developments across the SAME...
This poster presents on-going research of the challenges, results and evaluation faced during the... more This poster presents on-going research of the challenges, results and evaluation faced during the pilot implementation of an ePDP approach in the School of Arts, Media and Education (SAME), at the University of Bolton (UoB). The inclusion of personal development planning (PDP) is a University requirement for all programmes and was traditionally embedded through a text based/visual journal approach in Art and Design. With the emergence of new technologies that could support PDP the school explored a more flexible approach using an open source VLE (Moodle) to implement the existing PDP framework. The experience provided the school with data to inform full implementation of ePDP and to further explore the optimum process, infrastructure and research that was needed to support future developments across the SAME more effectively. Students were willing to engage in the new platform and minor adjustments were made based on their recommendations and tutor findings. The (Interactive) Poster...
Subject Centre(ADM-HEA). Founded in 2006 the network's members are drawn from a range of institut... more Subject Centre(ADM-HEA). Founded in 2006 the network's members are drawn from a range of institutions across the North West(NW) including pre and post '92 Universities and Further Education (FEC) Colleges with Higher Education (HE) provision. To date it has completed and disseminated two major collaborative research projects looking at research informed teaching and aspects of the student experience. The network provides opportunities for staff working at different levels, in different areas of the sector, to work together, to share good practice and to feed these experiences into teaching. It provides a model of co-operation which circumvents the problems posed by increasing competition between institutions, the difficulties presented by limited funding, and time constraints. Here, in order to promote debate about the hierarchies and perceived barriers to collaboration, are outlined the means by which the group has been sustained; the network's research has been achieved; and the ethos of the group developed. The projects outlined here demonstrate that it is possible to provide opportunities for staff working at different levels, in different areas of the sector, to work together to undertake research and to share good practice.
This paper analyses the outcomes of a collaborative research project, involving six higher educat... more This paper analyses the outcomes of a collaborative research project, involving six higher education institutions in the UK, exploring relationships between learning, teaching and research in art and design.
This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Education at UBIR: University... more This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Education at UBIR: University of Bolton Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Education: Book Chapters by an authorized administrator of UBIR: University of Bolton Institutional Repository. For ...
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 2015
Aim: This paper explores the development of partnerships initiated in 2005 by one of the authors ... more Aim: This paper explores the development of partnerships initiated in 2005 by one of the authors through existing links with the Art, Design and Media subject centre of the Higher Education Academy (ADM-HEA). It looks at the continued evolution of collaborative activity over a number of evidence-based projects from 2006 to the present day. A special feature of the partnerships includes collaborative working between staff working at a range of levels in a variety of contexts including Higher Education in Further Education (HE in FE). The varied constituency of the network is innovative in that it cuts across institutional hierarchies and disciplines within Art, Design and Media and allows for the interests of individuals whilst serving institutional agendas. Here, the means by which this has been achieved is explored, as is the network's focus on evidence-based practice. This has enabled and encouraged a collaborative and creative approach to the research proposed and undertaken by the group. Outcome: In addition to highlighting the ways in which institutional and disciplinary boundaries can be transcended. The images and accompanying oral presentation will outline the processes by which projects have been conceived, bids written, funding sought and dissemination of the findings accomplished, providing a potential model for colleagues wishing to undertake similar evidence-based collaborative activity.
This work in progress report presents on-going research of the challenge and evaluation faced dur... more This work in progress report presents on-going research of the challenge and evaluation faced during the implementation of pilot studies of an ePDP exercise in the School of Arts, Media and Education at the University of Bolton in the UK. The inclusion of personal development planning is a University requirement for all programmes and was traditionally embedded through either text based and/or visual journal approaches used in the SAME (The visual journal has and continues to be an important aspect of personal development for Art & Design students at the UoB). With the emergence of new technologies that could support the traditional PDP the school explored a more flexible approach using an open source VLE (Moodle) to implement the existing PDP framework. The experience provided the school with data to inform full implementation of ePDP through Moodle and to further explore the optimum process, infrastructure and research that was needed to support future developments across the SAME...
This poster presents on-going research of the challenges, results and evaluation faced during the... more This poster presents on-going research of the challenges, results and evaluation faced during the pilot implementation of an ePDP approach in the School of Arts, Media and Education (SAME), at the University of Bolton (UoB). The inclusion of personal development planning (PDP) is a University requirement for all programmes and was traditionally embedded through a text based/visual journal approach in Art and Design. With the emergence of new technologies that could support PDP the school explored a more flexible approach using an open source VLE (Moodle) to implement the existing PDP framework. The experience provided the school with data to inform full implementation of ePDP and to further explore the optimum process, infrastructure and research that was needed to support future developments across the SAME more effectively. Students were willing to engage in the new platform and minor adjustments were made based on their recommendations and tutor findings. The (Interactive) Poster...
Subject Centre(ADM-HEA). Founded in 2006 the network's members are drawn from a range of institut... more Subject Centre(ADM-HEA). Founded in 2006 the network's members are drawn from a range of institutions across the North West(NW) including pre and post '92 Universities and Further Education (FEC) Colleges with Higher Education (HE) provision. To date it has completed and disseminated two major collaborative research projects looking at research informed teaching and aspects of the student experience. The network provides opportunities for staff working at different levels, in different areas of the sector, to work together, to share good practice and to feed these experiences into teaching. It provides a model of co-operation which circumvents the problems posed by increasing competition between institutions, the difficulties presented by limited funding, and time constraints. Here, in order to promote debate about the hierarchies and perceived barriers to collaboration, are outlined the means by which the group has been sustained; the network's research has been achieved; and the ethos of the group developed. The projects outlined here demonstrate that it is possible to provide opportunities for staff working at different levels, in different areas of the sector, to work together to undertake research and to share good practice.
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