Association for Dental Education in Europe

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Students as Collaborators, Partners and Educators COP

Thursday, 24th August 2023 - 14:00 to 15:30
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Timezone: 

BST (UTC+1)

Duration: 

90 Minute

Venue: 

Space 9 @ The Spine

Students as Collaborators, Partners and Educators COP
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Session synopsis: 
A meeting of the the Students as Collaborators, Partners and Educators Community of practice.

While the concept of embedding students at the heart of the educational process is not new, working in close partnership with them is a novel and developing concept. Dentistry has topic areas that lends themselves to the use of these educational methodologies to the benefit of both staff and students.

This session will look at student engagement though partnership in higher education by examining the process of working with students in all of the following aspects as outlined by Healey (2019).

  • Teaching learning and assessment - examples of which are peer mentoring, assessment, co-teaching and peer assisted learning.
  • Subject based research and enquiry - embedding research and inquiry into the curriculum
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning - students undertake projects designed to improve university learning experience for themselves and their peers.
  • Curriculum design and pedagogy - least developed area
Programme: 
14:00 Introduction to Community of Practice Students as collaborators, partners and educators (VB)
14:10 A framework for design, implementation, and sustainability (MB)
14:20 Students as Partners: the Glasgow story (RMcK)
14:30 The Student Voice (EDSA President - Marta Adam, president@edsaweb.org and others)
14:40

Case studies (1-3) workshop (all)

  • Research
  • Education
  • Service
15:20 Feedback from groups
15:30 Final thoughts and Close
Chair: 

Viv Binnie

ADEE CoP Chair and lead for Dental Educational Research and Scholarship
University of Glasgow Dental School, UK

Dr Viv Binnie is a dental senior lecturer, and lead for Dental Educational Research and Scholarship at University of Glasgow Dental School. She teaches public health/behavioural sciences including communication, across all five BDS years. Formerly a tobacco researcher, her current interests lie in dental educational research particularly around student engagement, peer assisted learning (PAL) and staff student partnerships (SSPs) and student motivation as defined by self-determination theory (SDT). She has published widely and recent publications are involved with assessment & feedback and non-technical skills. She supervises in the field of health professions education, at doctoral/masters level. She is a senior fellow of the HEA, and president-elect of BARDES (British Alliance for Research in Dental Education and Scholarship).

Speakers: 

Michael Botelho


Clinical Professor in Restorative Dental Sciences
University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Dentistry


Prof Michael Botelho has been at HKU for 27 years and has been actively engaged in educational reform, pedagogy and innovation. He has over 100 publications with 20 papers and 8 book chapters in education and 19 education grants. He has lectured and consulted in across South-East Asia and in Europe and North America. His educational research interests are related to the innovative use of video and online learning, PBL, flipped classes and closing the clinical transition gap. He has a number of teaching awards at HKU including the first Teaching Innovation Award, the Team Award and the UDTA. He is also a recipient of the UGC Teaching Award. He is currently the President-Elect of the Educational Research Group of the IADE. He is a former Regional Attaché for ADEE

Robert McKerlie

Senior Lecturer
University of Glasgow, UK

Mr Robert McKerlie has worked extensively in the field of ‘Students as Partners’. He led the development and implementation of a self-selected study module (SSM) in eLearning where students work in partnership with academic staff to develop learning objects that will be integrated into the curriculum for future years. In the first year of this SSM the group won best presentation at the University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference ( 2016). He also established a TELT Partnership Group that provides the space for staff and students working together to study, design, review and implement technologies to enhance the learning and teaching experience. He also assisted with the development of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) programme that runs within the BDS Curriculum

Learning Outcomes: 

The session objectives are:

  • To outline the practice, with regards to the current student role in relation to co-creation, collaborative and participatory design
  • To gather delegates perspectives on peer assisted learning, assessment and mentoring
  • To consider the role of students in their contribution to the wider social environment

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