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Beyond a Specialist Support Team: Embracing a Wider HE Context

3. Impactful Bolt-Ons

2. Proactive Relationships

1. An Innovative Presence

Overview:

• Updating learning materials periodically to reflect industry, technological, and policy changes

• Regular themed CPD which shares new and existing pedagogical apporaches that engage, inspire and involve

• Going one further and modelling the above on a site containing focused hints, resources, and videos to a wider practitioner audience

Continuous Innovation

• Academic Skills' modules and short courses - including student projects and targeted ESP programmes

• Tailored Diagnostic Assessments - reflecting learner needs

• A repository that is visually impacting, interactive and utilizes both receptive and productive skills (not just reading)

• Streamlining 1:1s - "Chat with an expert" facility

Digital Fixtures

An Innovative Presence

Core Meeting Technical

• Keeping a proactive relationship with our own syllabus - striking a balance between core academic skills and more technical ones related directly to assignments

• Mapping skills into our developmental materials

• Conceptualizing core and technical skills through creative design and pedagogical approaches, but avoiding skills' isolation.

• Reflection and making tweaks

• Link Tutors - custodians of schools and faculties working proactively with academics.

• Harvesting detailed and quick-fire needs that impact learners directly and support academic production

• Tailored workshops for shools, faculties, as well as external partners. To illustrate, module and assignment specific, but also professional skills e.g. technical writing, E-comms

Outreach

Proactive Relationships

Concluding Thoughts

• Keep innovating and keep present

• Keep in touch

• Keep thinking beyond the day-to-day provision

• Extra Curricula clubs

• Summer Schools

• Intercultural Effectiveness Training Workshops

• Academic Skills'/CPD YouTube channel - show us how it's done

Impactful Bolt-Ons