Abstract:

The Open University Associate Lecturer Support and Professional Development (ALSPD) team works with colleagues across the University to deliver a programme of online cross-faculty staff development events for associate lecturers.  In 2019, evaluation of events was identified as a strategic objective for the team, which led to the development of a co-evaluation model using outcomes-based surveys designed to capture reactions, learning and planned changes in behaviour (Kirkpatrick, 2006; Guskey, 2016; Stefani and Baume, 2016).  Drawing on 2021-22 event data, this session will share some of the learning and expertise gained through developing that model.

Biography:

Dr Charlotte Stevens has a background in teaching English Literature.  She joined the UK Open University in 2005, where she has held a number of roles, broadly based on the delivery of subject-based educational advice and guidance, quality assurance and enhancement, and management of systems.  She is part of the Associate Lecturer Support and Professional Development (ALSPD) team where she leads on evaluation of staff development events and on shaping the training and development of associate lecturers in new core systems.  Charlotte is a SEDA fellow, an AdvanceHE Senior Fellow and a member of the UK Evaluation Society.  She is actively engaged in research focused on evidencing the longer-term impacts of staff development.