The Advance HE Podcast

Student Success: Flexible learning part three

Student Success is a six-month longitudinal project for the Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 focusing on embedding flexible learning in higher education, as well as employability and access, retention, attainment and progression.

This series of podcasts complements the findings of a literature review on flexible learning, looking at into research articles published between 2016 and 2021, including Advance HE’s report on the topic. The papers reviewed detailed research undertaken across the world, using quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, including a few conceptual articles. 

In the third episode of the series, Professor Mark Loon, author of Flexible learning: a literature review 2016 - 2021, is joined by Professor Keitha Dunstan, Provost, Bond University in Australia, Professor Ruksana Osman, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Professor Lisa Anderson, Interim Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education, University of Liverpool to explore the flexible learning in the global context.

This episode was recorded on 17 February 2022.

Design thinking: episode five

Design thinking is a new podcast series ahead of Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement - a virtual event on 9 March 2022, developed by Dr Bo Kelestyn is a Senior Fellow and Director of Student Experience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick.

In this episode, Dr Kelestyn and Larissa Kennedy, the current president of the UK National Union of Students, discuss the connection between student activism, power and design thinking.

Find out more about the design thinking insights event: www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/events/insights-event-design-thinking-approaches-student-engagement 

Design thinking: episode four

Design thinking is a new podcast series ahead of Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement - a virtual event on 9 March 2022, developed by Dr Bo Kelestyn is a Senior Fellow and Director of Student Experience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick.

In this episode, Dr Kelestyn and Dave Thomas, Senior Advisor at Advance HE explore the connection between design thinking, leadership and inclusivity, and the ways in which we need to go about building truly inclusive cultures and learning communities.

Find out more about the design thinking insights event: www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/events/insights-event-design-thinking-approaches-student-engagement 

Student Success: Flexible learning part two

Student Success is a six-month longitudinal project for the Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 focusing on embedding flexible learning in higher education, as well as employability and access, retention, attainment and progression.

This series of podcasts complements the findings of a literature review on flexible learning, looking at into research articles published between 2016 and 2021, including Advance HE’s report on the topic. The papers reviewed detailed research undertaken across the world, using quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, including a few conceptual articles. 

In the second episode of the series, Kim Ansell, Senior Advisor at Advance HE is joined by Professor Lisa Hannah, Dean of Students at Deakin University to discuss institutional priorities for empowering the learning and teaching process, the most challenging aspects of creating the right environment to enable innovation and flexible learning, and how best to democratise and empower the learning and teaching process to enable better student success without compromising staff satisfaction and wellbeing.

This episode was recorded on 15 February 2022.

Design thinking: episode three

Design thinking is a new podcast series ahead of Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement - a virtual event on 9 March 2022, developed by Dr Bo Kelestyn is a Senior Fellow and Director of Student Experience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick.

In this episode, Dr Kelestyn speaks with Anish Bagga is the founder of Unitu, an award-winning online platform that helps universities and student unions to collect and analyze student feedback in real time.

Find out more about the design thinking insights event: www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/events/insights-event-design-thinking-approaches-student-engagement 

Student Success: Flexible learning part one

As part of our Connect Benefit Series for 2021-22 on Student Success, the flexible learning literature review project looked in-depth into 105 research articles published between 2016 and 2021, including Advance HE’s report on the topic. The papers reviewed detailed research undertaken across the world, using quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, including a few conceptual articles. Initial findings reveal that Covid19 was a key driver for the increased adoption of flexible learning by HEIs. Nonetheless, flexible learning was also a deliberate strategy in some HEIs.

These podcasts complement this review, looking at different, yet equally important aspects of flexible learning.

In the first episode of the series, Stuart Norton, Senior Advisor at Advance He and Dave Thomas, Senior Advisor at Advance HE discuss the opportunity to infuse diversity within higher education to ensure practices and process are flexible to promote student success for increasingly diverse cohorts, as well as advice on how institutional systems and structures can support flexible learning.

Find out more: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/membership/member-benefits-2021-22/connect-benefit-series/student-success 

Design thinking: episode two

Design thinking is a new podcast series ahead of Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement - a virtual event on 9 March 2022, developed by Dr Bo Kelestyn is a Senior Fellow and Director of Student Experience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick.

In this episode, Dr Kelestyn speaks with Luke Netherclift, a Warwick graduate, a former work innovation fellow, Warwick Secret Challenge facilitator and trainer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Let's Level Up, an education startup focused on building the next generation of skilled professionals.

Find out more about the design thinking insights event: www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/events/insights-event-design-thinking-approaches-student-engagement 

Design thinking: episode one

Design thinking is a new podcast series ahead of Design Thinking: Approaches to Student Engagement - a virtual event on 9 March 2022, developed by Dr Bo Kelestyn is a Senior Fellow and Director of Student Experience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick.

In this introductory episode, Dr Kelestyn talks about the overall series and shares how the University of Warwick has been leveraging design thinking for student engagement and student voice. 

Find out more about the design thinking insights event: www.advance-he.ac.uk/programmes-events/events/insights-event-design-thinking-approaches-student-engagement

Supporting Inclusive Boards: an introduction to the community

The Supporting Inclusive Boards community will convene governance professionals from small and specialist institutions in a series of developmental, online sessions to enhance and share thinking, noting the importance of the role of the governance professional in implementing change. Invitations to join the community is offered in conjunction with GuildHE and has been sent to small and specialist institutions. This forms part of our Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 project on Leading change through teams and networks will run from November 2021 to January 2022.

In this conversation, Kim Ansell, Senior Adviser at Advance HE is joined by Tesse Akpeki, Director of Tesse Akpeki Associates Ltd to discuss the value of this community and what participants can expect from being part of it.

This conversation was recorded on 24 November 2021.

Student Success: attainment

Student Success is a six-month longitudinal project for the Connect Benefit Series 2021-22 focusing embedding employability and access, retention, attainment and progression in higher education. This is the first in a series of four podcasts previewing the findings of a literature review on access, retention, attainment and progression 2016-21, exploring interventions which have shown impact on access, retention, attainment and progression outcomes and the connections between these areas,  which will be published as part of this theme. 

Dr Jill Dickinson, Senior Lecturer, Evaluation and Teaching and Learning (Secondment) is joined by Dr Liz Austen, Head of Evaluation and Research, Sheffield Hallam University, who principally researched this area of the literature review focusing on attainment.

This episode was recorded on 27 September 2021.

For more information on this podcast series and the Connect Benefits Series - Student Success, please visit https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/membership/member-benefits-2021-22/connect-benefit-series/student-success