1.2 Provision of Stimulating Programmes
1.2.2 Examine whether teaching methods appropriately underpin the programmes offered, and enable students the best opportunities to learn
Summary of Strategy
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1.2 Provision of Stimulating Programmes |
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1.2.2 Examine whether teaching methods appropriately underpin the programmes offered, and enable students the best opportunities to learn |
§ Support and facilitate the work of the LLP to build a rounded and up-to-date database of how contemporary Cambridge students learn and are best taught. |
§ CUSU AAO § CUSU EO § CUSU FLO through: § LLP Steering Group. |
Strategy
1.2.2 Investigate whether teaching methods appropriately underpin the programmes offered, and enable students the best opportunities to learn.
The stated aim 4.1.2 (b) of the ULTS is to 'investigate whether teaching methods appropriately underpin the programmes offered, and enable students the best opportunities to learn'.
From January 2007 as part of the University's Strategy, four researchers were commissioned to 'map' and 'draw a landscape' of the current teaching and learning models across the University. The CUSU Academic Affairs Officer, Education Officer and Faculty Liaison Officer and the Graduate Union Academic Affairs Officer sit on the Project's Steering Group. The Project is expansive in its goal of mapping the range of ways students learn in Cambridge, whether it is through supervisions, chats with friends or internet sites, and is conducting research accordingly. The project will run for three years and in time will build a considerable data base of the different ways students learn and are taught.
The findings of this project will serve as a rounded and up to date appreciation of how contemporary Cambridge Undergraduates and Graduates learn. With such information CUSU will have a resource to draw upon in our efforts to encourage innovative and effective teaching and learning fit for the contemporary Cambridge students.
Ongoing Action: CUSU will continue to support the work of the LLP and report on its progress.
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