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Support Students as Change Agents Office of the DVC (S&E) Student and Staff Workshop Students Matter Forum 2013 Dr Sara Booth Overview of Workshop • Student Experience Plan 2013-2015 • Students as active collaborators or co-producers • Theoretical model for students as change agents (Dunne & Zandstra, 2011) • Workshop activity 1: Different views on engaging students as change agents • UTAS examples • UTAS project in progress • What research projects can make a positive change to UTAS? Students as Change Agents Initiative Student Experience Plan 2013-2015 Goal 1: Provide students with opportunities to have a strong voice through student representation and active engagement in University life 1.2 Develop students as change agents in research and presenting solutions with fellow students Students as active collaborator or coproducer “There is a subtle, but extremely important, difference between an institution that ‘listens’ to students and responds accordingly, and an institution that gives students the opportunity to explore areas that they believe to be significant, to recommend solutions and to bring about the required changes. The concept of ‘listening to the student voice’-implicitly if not deliberately-supports the perspective of student as ‘consumer’, whereas ‘students as change agents’ explicitly supports a view of the student as ‘active collaborator’ and ‘co-producer’, with the potential for transformation.” (Dunne in Foreword to Dunne and Zandstra, 2011, 4) Integrating Students into Educational Change EMPHASIS ON THE STUDENT VOICE Students as evaluators of their HE experience (the Student Voice) EMPHASIS ON THE UNIVERSITY AS DRIVER Students as participants in decision-making processes Integrating students into educational change Students as partners, cocreators and experts EMPHASIS ON THE STUDENT AS DRIVER Students as agents for change EMPHASIS ON STUDENT ACTION (Dunne and Zandstra, 2011) Workshop Activity 1: Dimensions of students as change agents Different views on engaging students in educational change Student voices Students as partners and leaders Faculty controlled Student controlled Institutionally driven Student driven Design and development Research/evaluation Discipline level Institutional level Practice level Strategic level Voluntary/service Credit/paid Ad hoc Embedded Work independently Student-faculty team Senior students Students at all levels Healey, 2012 http://www.mickhealey.co.uk/workshops-offered/sotl-change-and-celebration/studentsas-change-agents. Students as Change Agents Students as Change Agents Pedagogical consultants and ambassadors Co-designers of courses SOTL Practitioners Strategy developers and advisors Students as Change Agents at UTAS EXAMPLES Pedagogical consultants and ambassadors • • Meg Good: lecturing and tutoring first year law units and constitutional law; PASS leader and International Student Support Program tutor in law; Tasmania’s first animal law conference Rikki Mawad: Worked in the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) now TILT Co-designers of courses • Meg Good: UTAS Law Moot Competition (58 competitors); delivered a series of lectures on water law in a new winter intensive unit (Current Issues in Environmental Law) she proposed to the Faculty SOTL Practitioners • Rikki Mawad: UTAS citation for outstanding contributions to student learning; ALTC national citation for outstanding contributions to student learning Strategy developers and advisors • • Alex West & Vino Rajandran: Student Experience Plan 2013-2015 (19 initiatives with TUU responsibility); Student evaluation project Rikki Mawad: Student advisor-AEU-teacher education UTAS Project in Progress eVALUate • Importance of student voice • Institutional response rate strategy involving students and staff Issues • increasing response rates • improving the quality of the feedback Partnership • TUU & SERRU eVALUate Video eVALUate video In what other ways can students and staff bring about change with eVALUate? How do we move from an individual approach (student voice) to an institutional approach? Activity 2: What research projects can make a positive change to UTAS? • What research project can make a positive change to UTAS? • What examples can you think of? • What support will you need (other students/staff)?