Design for Learning Forum

Research-Based Learning: Reinventing the Undergraduate Curriculum

• Presenter: Dr Chris Rust, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
• Intended audience: This workshop will be useful to all staff engaged in curriculum review and revision, particularly those interested in developing students' research/inquiry skills.
• Cancellation policy: The CTLC will make every effort to notify registrants of cancelled workshops at least 5 working days in advanced

Students-as-researchers? Dr Chris Rust will explain how 'reinventing' the relationship between teaching, learning and research can help our students become contributors to - not just consumers of - the research cultures of their own disciplines. Based on his experiences leading a five-year project in the UK, Dr Rust will present a strategy for embedding research-related graduate capabilities into undergraduate learning at the earliest stages by encouraging students to engage in their own research.

Biography - Dr Chris Rust

Dr Chris Rust is Head of the Centre for Staff and Learning Development, where he has designed and led educational development programs for over twenty years, and Deputy Director of the Human Resource Directorate at Oxford Brookes University. Chris is also Deputy Director of two national Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - ASKe (Assessment Standards Knowledge Exchange) and the Reinvention Centre for undergraduate research (led by Warwick University).   He is a Fellow of both SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association) and the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ) and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, for whom he was also an accreditor.

An internationally recognised researcher and practitioner, Chris Rust has published on a range of issues including: the experiences of new university teachers, the positive effects of supplemental instruction, the effectiveness of workshops as a method of staff development, ways of diversifying assessment, and improving student performance through engagement in the assessment process.