JUNE

• Completed consultations with academics across the university.
• Conducted focus groups with students.
• Designed and launched a survey to reach out to the wider student body.

JULY

• Synthesized ideas gathered from consultations with academics, and students from focus groups and survey.
• Devised learning outcomes, ideas for themes, exploration, and assessment using insights gathered from the consultations.
• Created a website and sample Learn page with assistance from Learning, Teaching and Web Services.

AUGUST

• Held a final presentation that showcased the course prototype and highlighted the process of developing it, on the 2nd of August, 2018.
• The prototype will be taken forward through further iterations during the next academic year.

 

The following is a bit more information on the findings from consultations with academics and students.

Our consultations included:

• Interviews with academics: About 25 academics
• Focus groups with students: 3 focus groups conducted with a total of 20 students participating
• A student survey: 132 respondents

The consultations majorly covered the following  topics:

• Interdisciplinary study of Edinburgh
• Online Learning
• Offline Learning and Exploration
• Assessment

 

Click here to view a summary of each topic based on information gathered from academics and students.