Level 6: Cross-campus online delivery

"Engageli offers a real classroom experience"

Module Summary  
Module

Level 6 Leadership and Management for healthcare professionals

Interprofessional module– cross campus

Cohort size

 300
Staff : Student ratio

4 : 300 (Lectures)

1 : 25  (Seminars) 

Module leader

(Nursing)

Jo Durham, Assistant Professor 

 

For this module students across different disciplines in Health Sciences come together for 8 weeks. The aim of the module is for the students to understand the process of change management and leadership and how it can impact different disciplines in the workplace. It further enables students to experience interdisciplinary collaboration and apply their knowledge in different settings, while developing essential skills such as collaboration, teamwork, and communication.

The module is delivered with a combination of lectures and seminars. The early lectures of the module are structured in a way that enable the delivery of key information and content with some opportunities for low level active learning.

The weekly 2h seminars focus on creating a safe learning environment for discussions around the key themes introduced during the lectures and assessment focus points. The seminars are the perfect environment for enabling time for students to work on their group project and gain support with their assessment.

The module is supported by a large teaching team (10-15 members of staff), that includes subject leads and teaching assistants.

This module aims to offer students an active, social, inclusive and applied learning experience. Engageli has not changed the way that the module is delivered, but it has made its delivery more effective.

This is how it is achieved:

Active

During lead lectures, the module leader encourages the active engagement of students via the use of polls and quizzes for exploring students’ views and past experiences. Engageli enables you to monitor how many students and which students have answered the polls, so the lecturer can prompt the remaining students to engage with the task.

The lecturer is supported by additional teaching staff that are inviting students to ask questions in the chat and ensure that all questions are promptly answered. To further enhance engagement during assessment support lead sessions and seminars, the module leader prepares a set of questions and/or prompts that are added in the Q&A section of Engageli and invites students to add their questions anonymously.

Social

The lectures are supported by 2h seminars that offer opportunities for students to work in small groups. Polls are used as a prompt for group discussions. The module leader ensures that the seminars run smoothly and on time by utilizing the auto detection of tags for changing the audio setting from room-mode to table-mode; as well as for starting timers for group task.

The seminars also enable time for the students to work on their group project, a group PowerPoint presentation. For this module students were sharing their screens. However, new features on Engageli can enable now the direct distribution of PowerPoint files. The seminar lead has a better understanding of how the different groups engage with the task by hearing all tables when on table mode and monitoring student engagement. This enables the seminar lead to join the table that may require more support with their task.

Inclusive

The module is designed in a way to ensure that the students are assigned to diverse groups, so that students from different disciplines will get to work together. This has enabled students to interact with others that they may not otherwise had the opportunity to.

Furthermore, the module team ensures that everyone has the opportunity to engage, even if they want to do this anonymously, through the Q&A option. This function has been used extensively for supporting students in relation to questions they may have around assessment.

Finally, neurodiverse students may find Engageli’s many windows overwhelming. Engageli enables students to adapt their screen by adding or removing panels when in full screen mode. This can ensure that students have the option to focus their attention during the session. The module team has been introducing this function to students early in the module.

Applied

This module is all about supporting students to develop those essential employability skills that they will encounter in a complex workplace such as healthcare. It aims to bring students from different disciplines together to work on realistic scenarios (such as failure to report errors, death of a patient; or change of team processes) that will require the implementation of quality improvement and change strategy. Students are working together to explore and develop action plans on how to implement change to achieve defined goals. This experience further support student to develop the right attitude towards supporting and influencing change in the workplace.

Module leader's advice

  • “Engageli is so much better than other platforms, so take your time to explore it” 

  • “Invest some time to explore Engageli’s portal on setting up classrooms and material” 

  • “Invest some time to ensure that students have clear guidance in AULA on how to access and use Engageli”

Top tips for large cross-campus module teaching in Engageli:

  1. Consider using the auto detection of tags for ensuring a smooth transition between parts of the lecture e.g. room-mode to table-mode.

  2. For lectures with large audiences consider embedding some low active learning opportunities such as polls, Q&A and chat.

  3. For lectures with large teaching teams consider having teaching staff to monitor and respond to chat messages.

  4. When a large teaching team is involved, ensure that clear lessons plans and/or slides are available ahead of time to ensure consistency of delivery during seminars. 

  5. Consider setting up a test Engageli classroom to allow practice ahead of time for seminar leads.​