Hullo everyone
I'm fascinated by the subject of team teaching and endorse views that,
ultimately, economic factors will define what we can offer, in terms of
tutorials and seminars. At the School of Healthcare Studies in the
University of Leeds, we are attacking the problem of "doing more with
less" by wider use of the WWW. If we assume that breaking down into
tutorial groups will, to an extent, address many similar issues and thus
lead to lecturers repeating some, if not many, focused discussions, we
can address a lot of this by publishing frequently asked questions
(FAQs) on the web.
Leeds is trying to engender a culture of utilising the web, in a variety of
ways, and this approach seems to appeal to students and lecturers
alike. It places some responsibility on students to prepare for their
seminars/tutorials and means lecturers can assume some prior
knowledge among students, allowing everyone to use their limited time
together, perhaps!, more effectively.
Regards
Ian
Date sent: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 08:49:37 +0100
Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: Getting discussion going
From: "Roger OTTEWILL(SBF)" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi Paul
>
> In my School, Business and Finance, team teaching would be perceived as
> expensive for the following reason. Taking a typical seminar group of between
> 20 and 25 students as an example, the workload allowance for a semester is
> currently 30 hours (ie 2hours x 15 weeks). This assumes one tutor taking the
> group. Team teaching based on 2 tutors would 'cost' the School 60 hours. Of
> course, it would be possible to keep to within 'budget', by:-
>
> * giving the tutors 15 hours each and only seeing the students for half the
> time;
> * doubling the size of the group and pooling the hours; and
> * expecting tutors to contribute hours from their self-managed time on a
> goodwill basis.
>
> In my view, none of these options would be in the best interests of either
> students or tutors. Don't get me wrong. I am very much in favour of team
> teaching and have had experience of it in the past. If it could be resourced
> without further reductions in student contact hours I would strongly advocate
> it.
>
> How would team teaching be resourced at John Moores?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> >Dear Roger,
> > I can see that multi-disciplinary teams may cut across university
> >politics, but I don't really see why they should be intrinsically
> >expensive...
> >
> > best wishes,
> >
> > Paul S.
> >
>
>
Ian Grigor
School of Healthcare Studies
University of Leeds
Baines Wing
LS2 9UT
(0113) 233 1185
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