Strategic projects to enhance our teaching and learning excellence

Introduction

Overview

Fran Hooley is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health Education in the School of Health Sciences. She has co-created digital health data science materials with health care professionals to develop bespoke professional development courses, credit-bearing units and open educational resources. She was deputy director for the PG Cert in Clinical Bioinformatics and is currently collaborating with Health Education England and HDR UK on various innovative online learning projects to help support the digital transformation of the NHS.

Project aims and objectives

This project aims to standardise evaluation across the University by co-creating an approach based on the Theory of Change. It aims to:

1. Establish a consistent evaluation framework to support the measurement and reporting of teaching practice effectively and efficiently
2. Create a network of evaluation advocates, consisting of staff and student partners to promote new case studies and drive evaluation using the framework.
3. Gather evidence of the new approach, through pilots, to recommend the tools and methods needed for University-wide reporting to support Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and Access and Participation Plans (APP).

Outcomes will include:

• A supportive and active network of advocates who share creative evaluation methods and approaches.
• Co-created set of theory of change materials and guidelines aligning with access and success and TEF requirements.
• A collection of suggested methods and tools that gather evaluation metrics efficiently and sustainably.
• Create exemplars and case studies to share lessons learnt and promote the framework and network.

Outputs

• The University of Manchester's Evaluation toolkit