Download - To be or not to be, that is the question: Can a new curriculum be everything you want it to be?
To be or not to be, that is the question; Can a new curriculum be everything you
want it to be?
Dr Chris Trace BVetMed MRCVS
Content of presentation
• Personal introduc/on • Introduc/on to Surrey and UK’s newest vet school
• How teaching and learning has changed • What we wanted to do • Factors affec/ng curriculum delivery • What we’ve actually done • Our experience with Talis • Ques/ons
Our Mission
“To inspire and educate veterinary professionals who will advance veterinary medicine to meet the needs of a changing world through “One Health, One Medicine”. Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine & Science – BVMSci Emphasis on developing confident, competent, research-aware career-ready graduates with a global view of veterinary medicine and One Health.
FIRST POST-DIGITAL VET
SCHOOL
Our curriculum
Year 5 – Practise, practise, practice
Year 4 – The role of the Veterinary Surgeon
Year 3 – Return to normal
Year 2 – Discovering the abnormal
Year 1 – Discovering the normal
School of Vet Med Practice Partners
8
Conservation
Education
Specialist areas Research
Small Animal Practice Equine and Production Animal
Corporate
Shelter Medicine
• Lectures • Seminars • Directed learning
• Recorded lectures • Online lectures • Online discussion boards • Audience par/cipa/on systems
How has teaching (and learning) changed?
• Animal handling • EMS • Intra-‐mural rota/ons • Clinical Skills centre
• Virtual pa/ents • Simulated pa/ents • Clinical learning resources
How has teaching (and learning) changed?
• Books • Journals • Papers
• eBooks • Online Journals • WikiVet
How has teaching (and learning) changed?
Tools we’ll be using:
Screen capture
Short Lecture Videos
PowerPoint
Forma/ve quizzes Tests
Xerte
PollEverywhere
Interac/ve lectures
PBL cases Discussion boards
Instruc/onal videos
Virtual Pa/ents
Talis
Lighthouse Reading lists Digi/sed
content
OERs
Factors affecting innovative curriculum delivery
Learning object
Module
Course
Department
Faculty
School
Factors affecting innovative curriculum delivery
Learning object
Module
Course
Department
Faculty
School Mo/va/on
Time
Ability
Knowledge
Factors affecting innovative curriculum delivery
Mo/va/on
For Against
Perceived worth of web-‐based ac/vi/es Cultural learning
style Perceived benefits
Ease of use “If it’s not going to
improve my MEQ scores, what’s the point?”
What would you do? What we’ve done:
• Staff training – workshops, informal drop-in sessions
• Staff support • Teacher observations • Semester coordinators • Showcase events • Reviewing and sharing
student feedback • Publishing guidelines
Our experience with Talis
Reading lists: Adopted throughout university, accepted by staff and (largely) populated. Fairly poor student engagement Digitised content: Started using, process seems to work effectively but staff awareness work to be done. Project Lighthouse: Pilot underway. Some initial teething problems with player and student access, but very swiftly resolved Main issue currently is staff not motivated to use as many don’t care about LA – also haphazard uploading of content