Learning and teaching reimagined: managing a safe return to campus
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Coventry University is implementing a comprehensive plan for a safe return to campus for the next academic year, focusing on accountability, evidence-based decision making, and effective communication. The checklist developed will guide actions needed for hybrid teaching, ensuring infrastructure and support for staff and students while preparing for potential future lockdowns. Key innovations and changes to established practices and digital processes will be explored to enhance the learning experience amidst health considerations.
Learning and teaching reimagined: managing a safe return to campus
- 1. Managing a safe return to campus Chris Thomson – subject specialist: digital practice Ashleigh Hargraves - Business Process Management Specialist July 2020
- 2. Session plan • Setting the scene • Ashleigh Hargraves – Coordinating Coventry University’s return to campus • Discussion • Innovative steps • Changing established practice • Infrastructure and processes • Next webinar - moving learning online 2
- 3. Sum up in a sentence or phrase what your organisation’s intentions are for next academic year
- 4. COVID19 Return to Campus Coventry University Group
- 5. COVID Recovery Check-List What Key actions required for Return to Campus / Hybrid Teaching model Who Content co-written through consultation with the relevant stakeholders UUK/JISC Principles Coventry Principles Why Accountable allocation of actions Evidence based decision making Collaboration, communication and joined up thinking
- 6. Education & Student Experience Research E&I Community Infrastructure Preparingour… Gather & Review Data Action Requirements Communications & Engagement Provision of IT and Estates Building Alterations for Social Distancing Staff & Student Welfare and Support Overarching Framework Behavioural / Procedural Change
- 7. How it is used to assess • Each item on the Checklist has an Objective with Criteria which clearly describe the ‘end state’. Each are aligned to Infrastructure or Community with a sub theme and a Pillar(s) and an assessment rating, timescale, evidence and suggested next steps.
- 9. Communication/Reporting •Strategic Reporting to GLT • For reporting purposes the Checklist will be used by the Covid GLT Group to drive business critical decision making • Just the Objective, Criteria, timescale and RAG status will appear •Second Wave Planning / processes
- 10. What are the next steps? • Use the checklist to drive conversations in the appropriate forum aligned to the framework • Ensuring that there is the correct evidence base to sign off tasks within the Organisational Framework to drive the development of a clear plan which ensures that accountability sits with the Pillar leads and is reportable through the Covid 19 Senior Leadership Team meetings.
- 11. Next steps • Develop further Lessons Learnt from the first lockdown to ensure we are prepared for a second wave • Ensure that there are shared processes and best practice aligned to business-critical activities to ease the transition to a safe return to campus • Be prepared for a second lock down or changes in government advice
- 12. Question 1 What innovative steps can we take to help people learn and work and protect people’s physical and mental well-being whilst on campus?
- 13. Question 2 What established practice will need to change in order achieve the goal of a safe return to campus?
- 14. Question 3 What changes to digital infrastructure, policy and processes do we need to make to enable the return of staff and students?
- 15. Thank you…
- 16. Stay informed… • Sign up to the next webinar in the learning and teaching reimagined programme, ‘Moving Learning Online – hosted by the Open University’ – 30 July, 11.30 – 12.30 • Learning and teaching reimagined now has a dedicated online community on Advanced HE’s Connect platform. Details to sign up will be shared in the post- event email • Keep up to date with this programme by signing up to Headlines, our fortnightly newsletter - jisc.ac.uk/headlines or put your name in the chat to let us know you’d like to be added to the mailing list 16
- 17. customerservices@jisc.ac.uk jisc.ac.uk Louisa Dale Director of insight, Jisc louisa.dale@jisc.ac.uk 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB learningandteachingreimagined @jisc.ac.uk