EduExe Communities of Practice
To build a supportive culture of peer support in education at Exeter, we have set up the EduExE Communities of Practice. These will enable academic and PS colleagues to collaborate, learn about and take forward practical solutions on areas of learning and teaching practice, that are aligned to the University’s 2030 strategy and Curriculum for Change.
What is a Community of Practice?
Communities of Practice are defined as a group of people who share a commitment to a common area of interest, expertise and goal – and to pursuing this through:
- Collaborating and building practical knowledge together
- Developing strong relationships based on mutual trust and respect
- Engaging consistently together on an agreed basis
- Personal and collective commitments to learning and development
- Creating a welcoming open environment where participants can contribute based on their capacity and level of expertise.
Our current EduExe Communities of Practice
Our communities of practice will evolve over time – and may be instigated and/or paused in line with demand and as education trends across the sector shift.
Our current communities of practice have ‘hubs’ on teams, and can be joined via the links below:
While striving to design inclusive, authentic, and creative assessments, we also have a need to explore accessibility, real-world challenges, portfolio-building, and secure use of AI in formative and summative assessments. This community will aim to share best practice and foster UK-wide collaboration.
Generative AI and the data that underpins it can enhance learning, teaching, and assessment while preparing students for an AI-driven future. Aligning with our efforts for Enabling AI @ Exeter, this community focuses on improving the student experience, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and real-world readiness while addressing integrity, bias, and ethical considerations of AI in education.
This new University-wide space aims to bring colleagues together to explore how teaching and learning can better reflect Exeter’s commitment to a greener, fairer, and healthier future. It’s a place to share ideas, highlight useful examples, and open up conversations across departments.
As demand for scalability and teaching efficiencies rise, we see the need for exploring scalable teaching design and practice that allow large cohort teaching while maintain and/or improve student experience.
The future of learning increasingly depends on international collaborations between academic institutions, whether through formalized Global Partnerships, academic consortia like Future17 and the Responsible AI Consortium, or individual collaborations between academics. This community will explore best practice, growth and improvement of existing collaborations, and identify opportunities for future development.
Productive responses to wicked problems and other complex emerging challenges demand creative, empathetic, and ethical collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. This may involve inter-, cross-, multi-, or transdisciplinary approaches – all of which require a core set of human skills that need to be imparted to tomorrow’s graduates. This CoP explores what these skills are and how they can be taught within an HE context; it offers educators a place to hone their own knowledge and confidence, and to network with like-minded colleagues.
More details coming soon
More details coming soon