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Intended Learning Outcomes: assistants, others), location (type and size of
venue), briefings and pre-departure training
By the end of the topic students will be better able to: for students and follow-up to close the
‘learning loop’.
1. Aware of some major examples of Imperial’s 3. Create a draft timeline, including major
established teaching outside the classroom. milestones for design, implement, evaluate,
follow-up.
2. Aware of benefits and burdens of this 4. Indicate an evaluation strategy (or identify
approach to teaching administratively. the difficulties of evaluation/impact
measurement).
3. Aware of the benefits and burdens of this 5. Outline the approach you could take on
approach, pedagogically for learning and using the outside-classroom teaching for
assessment. reputational enhancement (the ‘pay-off’ for
you, your department, your collaborators,
4. Better able to consider activities which could Imperial, profession).
be proposed in your context.
Alternatives: (a) A review of an existing outside-
5. Better able to consider resources including classroom event is an acceptable alternative or (b)
funding and industry collaborators. Report on just a part of large/complex activity: select
a ‘sample’ (e.g. one day of a three-day event; or one
6. Better able to evaluate, including identifying group’s project instead of five groups’ projects; or the
impact on student identity as well as student ‘key’ field activity).
learning.
Initial Reading:
Given the nature of this topic, reading will differ from ECTS credits: 2.5
most topics, and students will be directed to relevant, UKPSF indicative mapping: A1, A4, K2, K5, K6 and
current, material on out-of-classroom teaching, depending on your chosen activity reported in your
including YouTube. assignment, potentially V1, V2, V3, V4
Word Count: 750-1500
Tutor: Alison Ahearn
Outcome Assignment: Education Strategy
A plan for (a representative sample from) a proposed Aims
non-classroom activity linked to the student’s own
interests and context, to include:
1. Identify the student group(s) and This topic aims to offer students the chance to learn
stakeholders (including your funding body, about education strategy and the impact that this
your profession, your industry partners, your has on teaching and learning within higher education
teaching team and Imperial). institutions. Students will be given the opportunity
to analyse the current policy landscape in higher
2. Outline key resource requirements for the education and how this influences strategic decision
activity, identifying likely sources of material, making relating to teaching and learning. They will
labour (your own, administrators, teaching
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