About Outduction
Background
Project Aims
- To investigate the diverse final year experiences of UK honours degree students, including specific attention to returning and direct-entry final year students.
- To develop innovative strategies for encouraging students to engage with employers and alumni.
- To develop a framework that makes linkages between and brings cohesion to the following elements of the final year experience:
- Transition.
- Project work, individual and collaborative.
- The development of learner autonomy and confidence.
- The development of self-awareness and skills.
- The development of ethical awareness and responsibility.
- Employability and employer engagement.
- "Outduction"
- To gather, develop, evaluate and disseminate a series of learning environments, case studies and resources that will assist staff and students in enhancing the overall quality of the final year experience across the sector.
Process
- Sector-wide activity: literature review, gathering of case studies, dissemination.
- Inter-institutional activity: sharing of practices, collaboration in research design.
- Intra-university activity:
- employment of student interns;
- portfolio of mini "projects", some "whole-institution", some school-based;
- focus on two academic schools in each institution:
- Year 1: literature review; first cohort of interns, gather student perspectives on final year, event(s); initial discussions and information gathering in Schools, development of mini projects.
- Year 2: mini-projects; event(s); sector-wide case studies; "final year experience forum".
- Year 3: possible further round of mini-projects, development of case studies and resources, dissemination.
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