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SEDA Workshop - Doing Effective Dissemination: Theory and Practice
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SEDA Workshop - Doing Effective Dissemination: Theory and Practice
17 May 2011
Location: University of Bath
Dissemination
is crucial if learning and teaching research is to inform decision-making and
affect change. If the ultimate purpose of dissemination is indeed for the
intended audience to take up or adopt an innovation, information or resources,
as argued by Fincher (2000) , it is understandable that funding bodies, such as national or
institutional organisations, would be interested in ensuring that there is a
return on investment and that innovative practices move beyond project or
investigation teams.
In
late 2009, the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) funded a special
project to determine whether the promoted dissemination strategies had led to
effective dissemination and consolidation of outcomes of completed ALTC Grants
Scheme projects funded between 2006 and 2009. The project, called D-Cubed,
developed a new dissemination framework, grounded in both the literature and
the empirical research. The framework is designed to increase opportunities for
achieving productive change in learning and teaching. The new framework
particularly attends to exploring the climate of readiness for change, which
previous project leaders identified as a challenge. The project also developed
a series of resources based on the framework to support future teaching and
learning innovators in developing a coherent, consistent dissemination
strategy.
Aimed
at those who are looking at developing a dissemination strategy for teaching
and learning innovation projects and those who are coordinating institutional
changes in teaching and learning practice, this workshop presents project
findings and explores the resources in a practical, hands-on session.
The
workshop provides a brief overview of the project background and findings
before supporting participants through the resources on their own teaching and
learning innovations or institutional change processes. It explores the various
elements of the new framework and invites project participants to use the resources
within the contexts of their own teaching and learning innovations to identify:
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- whether the climate is ready for change;·
- what activities will be best to engage with
potential adopters; and,·
- what strategies are needed to transfer the
innovation into mainstream practice (embedding) or into other contexts
(upscaling)
Participants
will have the opportunity to work in small groups to develop dissemination
strategies designed to maximise continued embedding and upscaling innovation
and change.
The workshop leader is Deanne Gannaway, an academic developer and Head of the Evaluation Services Unit in TEDI
at the University of Queensland, Australia. Deanne was leader of the ALTC
funded project, A Review of the
Dissemination Strategies used by Projects Funded by the ALTC Grants Scheme, which
came to be known as the D-Cubed project.
Helen
King, Head of Academic Staff Development, University of Bath, will facilitate
the event.
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