eSTEeM Community Event: Planning and conducting impactful scholarship

Dates: 

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 10:00 to 12:00

Location

Via MS Teams

Contact

eSTEeM

Overview

The impact of scholarship implies demonstrable benefits to learning and teaching that are directly attributable to a scholarship project. In this workshop, we will discuss why impact matters for student outcomes and experience, career progression of educators, and for the reputation of the institution. We will discuss the key values and strategies that can help guide scholarship practice for possible impact. You will learn how to apply the Impact Evaluation Framework (IEF) to guide the planning for impact of new and ongoing scholarship projects, and for retrospective impact evaluation of completed projects.

About the Facilitator

Shailey Minocha is Professor Emerita of Learning Technologies and Social Computing in the Faculty of STEM. Shailey was the Scholarship Lead in the School of Computing and Communications from September 2017 to January 2024.

Shailey is the author of the free Badged Open Course (BOC), 'Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM’ hosted on OU’s OpenLearn. She conducted impact evaluation of 16 scholarship projects in 2022-2023. The materials from this impact evaluation initiative including the ‘compendium of case studies’ and ‘guide for educators’ are available in OU’s repository (ORO) via the eSTEeM website.

This session is open to Open University colleagues. Please visit My Learning Centre by Friday 31st May 2024 to register.