Chris Trace from University of Surrey talks at Talis Insight 2015

1. To be or not to be, that is the question;
Can a new curriculum be everything you
want it to be?
Dr Chris Trace BVetMed MRCVS

2. Content of presentation
• Personal
introduc/on
• Introduc/on
to
Surrey
and
UK’s
newest
vet
school
• How
teaching
and
learning
has
changed
• What
we
wanted
to
do
• Factors
affec/ng
curriculum
delivery
• What
we’ve
actually
done
• Our
experience
with
Talis
• Ques/ons

3. A bit about me… pre-Surrey
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013

4. April
2015
Dec
2013
Staff
training
Content
crea/on
Launch
Teaching
Talis
Insight
Oct
2014

6. Our Mission
“To inspire and educate veterinary professionals who will
advance veterinary medicine to meet the needs of a
changing world through “One Health, One Medicine”.
Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine & Science – BVMSci
Emphasis on developing confident, competent, research-
aware career-ready graduates with a global view of
veterinary medicine and One Health.
FIRST POST-DIGITAL VET
SCHOOL

7. Our curriculum
Year 5 – Practise, practise, practice
Year 4 – The role of the Veterinary Surgeon
Year 3 – Return to normal
Year 2 – Discovering the abnormal
Year 1 – Discovering the normal

8. School of Vet Med Practice Partners
8
Conservation
Education
Specialist areas
Research
Small Animal Practice Equine and Production Animal
Corporate
Shelter Medicine

9. How has teaching (and learning) changed?

10. How has teaching (and learning) changed?

11. • Lectures
• Seminars
• Directed
learning
• Recorded
lectures
• Online
lectures
• Online
discussion
boards
• Audience
par/cipa/on
systems
How has teaching (and learning) changed?

12. • Animal
handling
• EMS
• Intra-­‐mural
rota/ons
• Clinical
Skills
centre
• Virtual
pa/ents
• Simulated
pa/ents
• Clinical
learning
resources
How has teaching (and learning) changed?

13. • Books
• Journals
• Papers
• eBooks
• Online
Journals
• WikiVet
How has teaching (and learning) changed?

14. Flipped Classrooms

15. Flipped ClassroomsTools we’ll be using:

16. Tools we’ll be using:
Screen
capture
Short
Lecture
Videos
PowerPoint
Forma/ve
quizzes
Tests
Xerte
PollEverywhere
Interac/ve
lectures
PBL
cases
Discussion
boards
Instruc/onal
videos
Virtual
Pa/ents
Talis
Lighthouse
Reading
lists
Digi/sed
content
OERs

17. What we wanted to do:
Student
-­‐
centred
Teacher
-­‐
centred
Technology
enhanced
Tradi/onal

18. Factors affecting innovative
curriculum delivery
Learning
object
Module
Course
Department
Faculty
School

19. Factors affecting innovative curriculum
delivery
Learning
object
Module
Course
Department
Faculty
School
Mo/va/on
Time
Ability
Knowledge

20. Factors affecting innovative curriculum
delivery
Mo/va/on
For
Against
Perceived
worth
of
web-­‐based
ac/vi/es
Cultural
learning
style
Perceived
benefits
Ease
of
use
“If it’s not going to
improve my MEQ scores,
what’s the point?”

21. What would you do? What we’ve done:
• Staff training –
workshops, informal
drop-in sessions
• Staff support
• Teacher observations
• Semester coordinators
• Showcase events
• Reviewing and sharing
student feedback
• Publishing guidelines

22. Our experience with Talis
Reading lists:
Adopted throughout university, accepted by staff and (largely)
populated.
Fairly poor student engagement
Digitised content:
Started using, process seems to work effectively but staff awareness
work to be done.
Project Lighthouse:
Pilot underway.
Some initial teething problems with player and student access, but very
swiftly resolved
Main issue currently is staff not motivated to use as many don’t care
about LA – also haphazard uploading of content

23. Any questions?