The document outlines a presentation given by staff from the Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL) at Bournemouth University. The CEL was established in 2013 to promote, support, and coordinate pedagogical initiatives and embed learning into university life. The presentation discusses the changing landscape of higher education, innovative approaches to learning, and CEL's role in inspiring, engaging, and supporting the university. It also includes an activity for attendees to discuss triggers for organizational transformation and optimal levels of disruption.
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CEL
• Promote, support and co-ordinate pedagogic
initiatives
• Embed the learning into university life
• Established 2013
• Theme perspective
• Secondment of academics two days a week
• 3 PGR
The model of educational innovation we present is adapted from that proposed by Hutchings and Quinney (2015) which articulates the process as a triple helix, with research orientations, education strategies, and technology affordances as the three strands which have the potential to trigger transformation. These three strands share synergies with the BU Centre for Excellence priorities. Building on earlier work (Hutchings et al 2010 and 2013a and 2013b) Hutchings and Quinney (2015 p108) recognise and explore the challenges that change agents face when educational initiatives are “experienced as too uncomfortable, too difficult or simply too unwelcome and therefore resisted or rejected” or where academics may be “uncertain, unconvinced or indifferent” about educational initiatives (Hutchings et al 2010) and propose strategies for negotiating the complexity of the higher education environment with the aim of achieving optimum disruption (Hutchings et al 2010). Whilst this model was developed in the context of a health and social care curriculum the model is transferable to other disciplines and university-wide settings.
Hutchings, M. and Quinney, A., 2015. The Flipped Classroom, Disruptive Pedagogies, Enabling Technologies and Wicked Problems: Responding to" The Bomb in the Basement". Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 13(2), pp.106-119. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1060159.pdf