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SEDA / SRHE Educational Development Research Network
"Evaluating Educational Developments in Learning Centres: a Case Study"
Monday 17 April 2000
10.30 am - 3.30 pm
Adsetts Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
Eighteen months ago the Staff and Educational Development Association
(SEDA) collaborated to form a joint Educational Development Research
Network together with the Society for Research into Higher Education
(SRHE). Our next meeting is planned for Monday 17 April in the Adsetts
Centre at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). Two and half years ago SHU
asked their Learning and Teaching Research Institute to undertake a study
of the recently built new learning centre - the Adsetts Centre. The report of
that study was entitled 'An evaluation of the functioning of the Adsetts
Centre - As an Integrated Learning Centre'.
The aim of this meeting will not be so much to look at the findings of the
evaluation or the role of learning centres as to examine the rationale,
methodology and outcomes of the study. As such we will be looking at it
as a case study of research and evaluation in a specific area. At an earlier
meeting Graham Gibbs made a similar presentation around the theme of
training new teachers in higher education.
Presentations will be made by those involved in the evaluation as well as
representatives from the Learning Centre. There will also be an opportunity
to discuss the transferability of the approach used to other areas of
educational development. Whilst accepting that there is a significant
difference between research and evaluation, it is often through the latter
that people begin to engage in the former and, as such, it will be an
interesting approach for some.
We hope this meeting will provide an opportunity for those who find it more
difficult to get to London to participate in the network. The cost of the
meeting is £25 which will include morning and afternoon drinks and lunch.
Ranald Macdonald
Convener, SEDA / SRHE Educational Development Research Network
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