This week, in my talk to the British Computer Society’s symposium Ideas Before Their Time, I outlined our vision for relocation and how we have created a building from scratch to meet the needs of a digital future. Today’s students are no longer the people our education system was designed to teach. They want to simulate industry practice, learn and study on demand and utilise the best in technology and mobile computing. This makes possible a variety of learning styles in virtual spaces as well as physical ones, where collaboration can be spontaneous as well as deliberate.
Our journey is far from easy – building an appropriate, engaging, challenging, ambitious and effective world-class learning environment is highly complex. Such complexity is not well understood, well documented or well implemented. And there are few models to work from. But we are trying, and are confident we will get there. It was good to see so many society members showing a keen interest in our ideas.
Made another visit this week to the new site with some staff and external visitors – these visits are now linked to internal discussions with course staff exploring potential issues in academic delivery. One of the issues causing concern in broadcast engineering has hopefully been resolved through the design and construction of a test trolley, which will allow the engineers to deliver at various locations around the building. A great idea in response to mobile learning.
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