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What is it about?

This module aims to enable anyone who teaches and/or supports students' learning, within a higher education context, to improve their professional practice through structured dialogue with their peers and colleagues in the sector.

It is designed to develop supportive communities of practice amongst academics and professional staff in Higher Education.

Peer dialogue for practice development adopts a scholarly process of collaborative enquiry: participants will engage in structured, creative dialogue with relevant academic and professional peers in HE, in order actively to develop one or more aspects of their practice.

Through exploration of relevant education theory, recent developments in HE and University policy, participants will also locate and evaluate their practice within current institutional, political and social contexts.

FOR FULL DETAILS AND HOW TO BOOK FOR PCAP, PLEASE SEE THE PCAP WEBPAGES AT: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/staff/development/teach/pcap/

What will I get out of it?

At the end of this module, you will be able to demonstrate, through a triad presentation, online discussion and written portfolio, the ability to: Module Specific Skills.

1) Engage in structured dialogue with academic/professional peers on aspects of teaching, curriculum development, curriculum delivery and/or assessment, with an advanced level of constructive, critical analysis.

2) Explore critically, with originality, up to three areas relating to your own practice as a teacher and/or facilitator of learning in higher education.

3) Devise a strategy for changing and enhancing the identified area(s) of your academic practice, with reference to the UK Professional Standards Framework of the UK Higher Education Academy.

4) Implement change to develop at least one aspect of your practice and reflect critically on that development.

5) Critically evaluate key theoretical and research-based debates about learning, teaching, student support, assessment and evaluation in higher education and apply them to your professional practice.

Discipline Specific Skills.

6) Demonstrate critical awareness of higher education policy and its implications for academic/ professional practice.

7) Demonstrate critical and analytical engagement with education-related literature and ability to cite it and use references appropriately.

8) Show critical awareness of similarities and differences in the cultures of different subject disciplines.

9) Evaluate alternative forms of theoretical and research based knowledge.

Personal and Key Skills.

10) Engage in independent study informed by the presentation and analysis of materials and issues in group discussion.

11) Reflect analytically on personal and professional values and their implications for practice.

12) Communicate effectively in dialogue with peers, giving constructive, well organised feedback.

13) Design and write a portfolio which communicates clearly and persuasively.

Training Provider:

This course is administered by Staff Learning & Development, please contact SLD@exeter.ac.uk for any queries.