Learn Foundations - ART update W/C 31st August 2020
- Report Date
- August 2020
The Learn Foundations focus is primarily on the support being delivered by our stduent interns in preparation for teaching in Semester 1. The below provides an overview of the work completed to date:
Core 20 interns
CAHSS
Learn Foundations has been working with 9 of the CAHSS Schools to become partners and adopt the Learn Foundations template. The following provides an overview on the Learn Foundations template adoption within CAHSS:
- Edinburgh College of Art: In Progress
- School of Divinity: Completed
- School of Education, Moray House: Completed
- School of Health in Social Science: Completed
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology: Completed
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures: In Progress
- Business School: Completed
- School of Economics: Completed
- Centre for Open Learning: School were managing this internally with no support required.
CSE
Learn Foundations are working with all CSE Schools to drive 100% adoption for Semester 1. The following provides an overview on the Learn Foundations template adoption within CSE:
- School of Biological Sciences: Completed
- School of Chemistry: Completed
- School of Engineering: Completed with the exception of courses in query
- School of Geosciences: Completed
- School of Informatics: Completed
- School of Maths: Completed
- School of Physics and Astronomy: Completed
CMVM
Learn Foundations are working with 4 of the Schools/Deaneries within the College to become partners and adopt the Learn Foundations template. The following provides an overview on the Learn Foundations template adoption within CMVM:
- Edinburgh Medical School (MbCHb): School were managing this internally with no support required.
- Deanery of Biomedical Sciences: Completed
- Deanery of Clinical Sciences (Dentistry Only): Completed
- Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences (Usher Institute Only): Completed
In Progress: For those Schools which are ‘In Progress’ (ECA and LLC), we have adopted a different model to provide additional support for both Schools in the migration of their content (course materials) onto the new Learn Foundations template.
Completed with the exception of courses in query: All migration work has been completed with the exception of any courses which could not be assigned on Learn. These have been/are being investigated and fed back to the School for guidance. In the majority of cases these are due to changes being made to course delivery after the original data set was received (i.e. Semester change etc.).
Additional Support
With the majority of the core migration work completed, we are now looking at how we support Schools in their preparations for their hybrid approach. We are working with/in conversation with our partner Schools to look at how we can continue to provide support in preparation for Semester 1 with focus being on:
- Migration of Course Materials from previous years into the current instance of Learn;
- Support of micro and macro patterns in preparation for Semester 1.
- Support with Learning Technology Tools in preparation for Semester 1.
The following Schools have taken up our offer of additional support/we are in discussions to uptake this offer of support:
- School of Divinity
- Moray House, School of Education and Sports
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- School of Economics
- School of Health in Social Sciences
- School of Geosciences
- School of Biological Sciences
- School of Informatics
- School of Chemistry
All remaining Schools are in the process of having next step discussions are ongoing.
Several of our interns ended their internship on the 21st August 2020; however, due to the preparation requirements for Semester 1, we have extended 20 interns for an additional 4 weeks. These interns will continue to support our partner Schools in their Semester 1 preparations until 18th September 2020.