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

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  

A bit about me… pre-Surrey

2008   2009   2010   2011   2012   2013  

April  2015  Dec  2013  

Staff  training  

Content  crea/on   Launch   Teaching   Talis  

Insight  

Oct  2014  

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

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

School of Vet Med Practice Partners

8

Conservation

Education

Specialist areas Research

Small Animal Practice Equine and Production Animal

Corporate

Shelter Medicine

How has teaching (and learning) changed?

How has teaching (and learning) changed?

•  Lectures  •  Seminars  •  Directed  learning  

•  Recorded  lectures  •  Online  lectures  •  Online  discussion  boards  •  Audience  par/cipa/on  systems  

How has teaching (and learning) changed?

•  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?

•  Books  •  Journals  •  Papers  

•  eBooks  •  Online  Journals  •  WikiVet  

How has teaching (and learning) changed?

Flipped Classrooms

Flipped Classrooms Tools we’ll be using:

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  

What we wanted to do:

Student  -­‐  centred  

Teacher  -­‐  centred  

Technology  enhanced  

Tradi/onal  

Factors affecting innovative curriculum delivery

Learning  object  

Module  

Course  

Department  

Faculty  

School  

Factors affecting innovative curriculum delivery

Learning  object  

Module  

Course  

Department  

Faculty  

School  Mo/va/on  

Time  

Ability  

Knowledge  

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?”

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

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

Any questions?