Evaluating Student Experience in Industry Projects (Live Projects)

  • Cara Lee Roth: Educational Developer SEE
  • John Jackson: Educational Developer CLTAD

This Workshop starts at 11:45 in room T304. Back to Parallel Session 2

Brief description of session and activities

Creative use of resources/IT/collections to support student learning and Innovation in teaching

SEE and CLTAD have developed a questionnaire on Moodle for evaluating students’ engagement in industry projects to support learning and innovation in teaching when designing the curriculum for live projects with industry.

This questionnaire can help course teams to evaluate the impact of industry projects, enhance enterprise and employability and also inform curriculum design and learning and teaching strategies on how to measure student experience.  It is intended as a discussion with students and tutors to reflect on their design and support of industry projects.

Will students be involved in the session? If so how?

The questionnaire was developed from the 2013 UAL research project Students’ Engagement in Industry Projects, which addresses how enterprise and employability are conceived among students in different disciplines and how they engage with industry projects. The questionnaire was developed to resolve some of these tensions to improve the student experience and enhance reflection on learning and teaching in enterprise and employability.    

What will participants take away from the session?

Tutors and students are often negotiating a series of tensions that come to the fore in the setting up and running of industry projects. The findings of the research project are presented as tensions intentionally to provoke debate. The questionnaire developed from this study is intended as reflection for students and a resource for tutors who wish to reflect on their design and support of industry projects.   The questionnaire has been built using the ‘Feedback’ module in Moodle. It has been placed in a Moodle area which can be made available to course teams. The ‘Feedback’ module has been chosen because it is both straightforward to use (for students and tutors) and includes useful options to analyse student responses.

The questionnaire would not stand alone, SEE and CLTAD will work with tutors to support a pedagogic opportunity to enhance discussion with students on their experience.