Pain Points / Opportunities - not sure if they are pain points, however, seemed lots of reference to effective models to get faculty using TEL. Therefore, there is probably Strategic Consultancy opportunities around Academic Adoption, and potentially for TEL Strategy.
With respect to CBE - there are two institutions which showed an interest, American Uni of Sharjah, and the Masdar Institute. The later was a speculative interest. It appears their focus is applied technical, so skills and competency is perfect. However, it sounds like they are looking at all sorts of things. I agreed to send my slide deck.
The AUoS, is much more tangible. The person is very enthusiastic for CBE, within the key area of MBA / Executive development. He has also executive sponsorship very high up within the institution. They are keen to find out what we might offer in terms of consultancy. The message in the slide deck resonated with respect to cultural change, change in faculty practice. He acknowledges this will be the most difficult, more than the technical mapping exercises. However, keen to pilot with Executive Skills Development. Importantly, within this area they already have input from a number of large employers. I explained do not have strategic review and strategic planning as a worked up off the shelf consultancy, we are developing it appropriately with input from consultants in US Domestic, and Functional Teams in Australia. It was left as follows (post conversation with Emad) I'd mention it to Louise, and Emad would follow up with a conversation with AUoS, to gauge interest.
I had a good chat with Allan and Dan about how we might position CBE within other markets (in particular), where CBE is not a known term, or has negative connotations. One suggestion which would not be disruptive to current practice, and give a clear benefit to the Achievements, Goals and the CBE Building Block, would be to continue to map to UK Graduate Skills, but also add the institutional goals which are unique to their graduates. Many institutions are trying to embed graduate skill development within taught courses / VLE presence, therefore, this might suit. Interestingly, the QAA theme for 2015-16 audits is Employability. There is also the potentially link into the HEAR report. This makes me think, it might be worth arranging a half day at UCS, who are exploring this within the business school, to see if it has legs. This might work up as nice try before you buy consultancy, I'm just not 100% sure where it fits within our core portfolio.
A very good story was from HCT around the use of the online quiz tool for high stakes, formative assessment within Business School (?). This introduced the idea for academic adoption of the quiz tool and opportunities within both summative and formative objective testing. The key messages were; it worked on ipad's with locked down browser, it was scaled up with question imported from Excel (benefits on authoring cycle), the use of random blocks and pattern matching and reporting using item analysis.
Required material
Mohammed Ali >>> CBE (says lots of people interest, but he's not sure how to pitch it)
Emad >>> Academic Adoption long description, consultancy overview
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