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| AdminHistory | Initial Project Summary taken from the TLRP website.
'This project was designed to support 28 course teams in 15 departments involved in undergraduate teaching, in thinking about new ways of encouraging high quality learning. The collaborative research was underpinned by research into the quality of student learning and how it is influenced, not just by teaching and assessment, but by the whole teaching-learning environment. The project focussed on five contrasting subject areas: biological sciences, economics, electronic engineering, history, and media and communications.
The project team came from the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Coventry, around which the collaborating institutions tend to be clustered. A range of courses or modules were identified in each subject area and the researchers worked closely with each course team to analyse learning aims and outcomes in relation to their student intake. A focus of the study was on the constructive alignment between aims and the whole teaching-learning environment: in other words, on the match between the course teams' intentions and students' everyday learning experiences.
Ways of improving provision were explored with course teams, based on conceptual frameworks being developed through the research, and tailored to the specific subject areas. The effects of the changes introduced were investigated and reviewed with the course-teams involved. Methods of managing change effectively were also identified and discussed, prior to extensive dissemination through the LTSN and its subject teaching centres'. |