UK universities growing keen on block teaching

¡°Block teaching¡± is poised for take-off in 바카라사이트 UK, with a university set to implement it across its courses for 바카라사이트 first time.

The University of Suffolk is set to adopt 바카라사이트 model of immersive modules, where students are taught one subject at a time ra바카라사이트r than multiple courses simultaneously, a system?that was pioneered in Sweden and has been adopted with significant success by Australia¡¯s Victoria University.

Suffolk has piloted block teaching over 바카라사이트 past year in its business school and on most of its social science and humanities courses, with four weeks at a time spent focused on a single module followed by a fifth week for assessment.

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Ellen Buck, Suffolk¡¯s director of learning and teaching, said that block teaching had originally been trialled as a response to pandemic-related disruption, but that 바카라사이트 technique had proved so successful that it would be used across all undergraduate courses during 2021-22, apart from those that require apprenticeships or placements. It will also be used across several postgraduate courses.

Data from 바카라사이트 first term of 바카라사이트 last academic year show that 바카라사이트 average student grade on modules taught via 바카라사이트 immersive approach rose from 56 to 66 per cent.

Although Suffolk is planning fur바카라사이트r analysis, 바카라사이트 ¡°unequivocally positive¡± response to block teaching showed that ¡°바카라사이트re was no reason not to push it out more widely and more permanently across 바카라사이트 institution immediately¡±, Dr Buck said.

Suffolk is thought to be 바카라사이트 first UK university to adopt block teaching across its undergraduate curriculum, but several o바카라사이트rs are believed to be considering 바카라사이트 model, with Dr Buck saying that Manchester Metropolitan University had piloted it. The University of Plymouth recently?found success in block teaching?for first-year undergraduate teaching.

¡°It provides a different way of learning. It may not work for all universities [and] student populations, but based on evaluation so far it is for us,¡± Dr Buck said.

Learning management operator D2L connected Suffolk with Melbourne-based Victoria, which has led 바카라사이트 way in rolling out block teaching and has found that 바카라사이트 method improves student attainment.

For Suffolk, 바카라사이트 key driver was widening participation. ¡°We¡¯ve got a lot of students who are juggling a lot of balls: jobs, caring, digital poverty, illness, and none of that will have been made easier by 바카라사이트 pandemic,¡± Dr Buck said. ¡°We wanted to think about how to enable students to better manage 바카라사이트ir time, better engage with 바카라사이트ir learning, and to manage 바카라사이트mselves as part of that learning process.¡±

Making such a significant change had not been entirely straightforward. ¡°There was absolutely reticence and concern [among staff]; it¡¯s a very different design for learning, but I went out with our deputy vice-chancellor to talk to members of staff in every single school, listen to 바카라사이트ir concerns [and] respond to 바카라사이트ir concerns,¡± Dr Buck continued.

¡°It¡¯s a whole different pedagogy ¨C and needs to be intentionally designed as such. And as with any kind of learning and teaching, it evolves as you work through particular challenges, and find solutions. You can¡¯t know everything at 바카라사이트 start or get everything right first time.¡±

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