Looking for Inspiration?
Here are some ideas for Learning Enhancement Projects (LEPs), which emerged from a consultation session with faculty, staff and students. The ideas are organised under the four strategic priorities specified by the National Forum – your LEP must align to one or more of the National Forum’s priorities. We hope that the ideas might provide some inspiration for your LEP, however you should not feel restricted to the ideas listed here.
Professional Development
Professional Development of Those Who Teach
- Faculty development initiatives focused on specific teaching/learning approach, e.g. active learning, team teaching, using case studies, teaching online, problem-enquiry based learning, inclusive teaching, etc.
- Reverse mentoring initiative, whereby students ‘teach’ faculty/staff
- Training/development initiatives for demonstrators/tutors
- Faculty/staff digital literacy
- Community of practice / learning network initiatives
- Programme/teaching team development initiative
Digital World
Teaching and Learning in a Digital World
- Redesign of a module (or compenent) for online/blended delivery
- Multi-media resource development to support teaching and learning (e.g. audio, video, games)
- Active learning using technology
- Interactive lecture notes & resources
- Developing students' digital skills within the discipline
- Designing assessment rubrics in Brightspace
- Development of quizzes in Brightspace
- Integrating digital tools/technologies to support new approaches to teaching and learning
Within and Across Disciplines
Teaching and Learning Within and Across Disciplines
- Discipline-specific career-readiness intervention
- Development of students’ research skills
- Balancing assessment load across a programme/stage
- Collaborating across disciplines for better student outcomes
- Developing new assessment approaches within/across disciplines
- Scenario-based, case-based or problem-based learning
- Decolonising the curriculum
- New ‘Discovery Elective’ module
Student Success
Student Success
- Peer-assisted learning
- Student peer-review activities
- Active learning in class
- Offering choice of assessment
- Developing authentic assessment
- Learning from assessment and feedback
- Feedback to large classes, using technology
- Development of students’ transversal skills
- Facilitating inter-cultural learning
- Skills development for diverse student cohorts
- Inclusive teaching & learning environments
Spending
Some ideas on how the LEP grant could be spent
NB – in all cases the expenditure must be directly related to the delivery of the project
- Staff costs (e.g. teaching, research or administrative assistance, including hourly paid)
- Student costs (e.g. bursaries, internships)
- External expertise (e.g. guest speaker, graphic designer)
- Consumables/materials, software and equipment specifically required for the project (note: equipment costs must not exceed 20% of overall project budget)
- Costs associated with organisation of workshops, seminars, events; dissemination activities
- Travel and subsistence where it is directly related to the achievement of project outputs.