I am working hard to provide high-quality teaching that benefits our students and my colleagues. I have also established external networks in my area of teaching and research, entrepreneurship and Innovation. In particular, I am:
Designing, developing, delivering, evaluating and reviewing a range of modules in my subject area which is Entrepreneurship and Innovation via the following activities and responsibilities
the following modules which included a) developing and delivering new material, b) keeping students up to date about research and industry insight relevant to the topic, c) actively assessing students' learning, and d) adjusting the teaching and learning material and style to reflect on their learning.
· Innovation BS6701 (MEQ results: avg. 4.04 attached)
· Entrepreneurship and Organisations BS4202A (MEQ results: avg. 3.91 attached)
· Entrepreneurship and Organisations BS4202B (MEQ results: avg. 3.5 attached)
· Business Design Thinking BS4205 (new module, extensive material development)
I also taught on the following modules to support colleagues:
· Consultancy in Practice BS6701 (Quantitative Methods; Personal Professional Development)
· Basic to advanced quantitative methods series for British Academy of Management
Achievements: Where the modules were delivered by me the MEQ results were good and CEPs and MEPs were closely followed to improve the module deliveries. As a result, students appreciated the innovative nature of teaching activities as well as realisation of their abilities and skills, something I try in my teaching style. May aim is that students realise that some of them worker harder than others, but they are all same smart.
Challenges: Where the modules were diverted in cooperation with other departments the MEQs and the assessment element outcomes could have been improved. To overcome this challenge I have started early communication and agenda establishment so we could follow similar strategy and teaching activities that improves students learning experience.
v Taking responsibility for the subject area and range of modules as appropriate and developing and supervising a diverse range of students
In 2020, I continue to lead the following modules:
· Innovation BS6701
· Entrepreneurship and Organisations BS4202A
· Entrepreneurship and Organisations BS4202B
· Business Design Thinking1, BS4205
· Business Design Thinking2, BS5205 (new module, extensive material development)
· Entrepreneurship and Strategic Growth, BS5403 (new module, extensive material development)
PhD supervision:
- Supervising 2 PhD student
MSc supervision:
- Supervising desertion: MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Personal tutor to students
- I continue to be personal tutor and support various levels of undergraduate and postgraduate students. Currently I have 52 personal tutees.
Also, I continue to director BSC Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management course which includes lecturing some of the above modules,
Contributing to identification of innovative approaches to teaching and learning
In all the above modules and programs, I am working hard to deliver excellent teaching, assessment, and feedback as well as tutoring my students (52) from diverse programs and backgrounds.
For example, since March I have set a drop-in weekly meeting for MSc dissertation supervision where students share their progress and ask questions as they emerge. The innovative collective approach allows peer -learning and support and students have expressed their appreciation for remaining motivated and easy to reach supervisor approach and consistent communication through regular meeting.
Since last year I also embedded the "tool-box" in my modules. It includes life hacks for improving students' work such as MS office hacks/hands-in tools, structured templates to help developing an idea for the assignment/ report/creative work, video tutorials for time management, groupwork and communication tools, etc. The evidence that they have helped improved my students' outcomes is the quality of assessments and the improved average marks across all the modules I thought in 2019-20. I do take pride in seeing my students thrive, their quality of work has been exemplary.
From 2019 I embedded creative video presentation as an alternative to conventional in-class presentation. So, for example in Autumn 2019 I assessed first elements of most modules which was the 2 minutes creative videos. Not only students were able to use variety of tools and ways to convey their ideas, but also, they became much more involved in the group work, considering some of them used to experience discomfort when doing in-class presentation. They used avatars, drawings, new programmes and software to create videos that were relevant and rigour to their learning outcomes.
Engaging in continuing professional development and contributing to knowledge development in my subject
While leading and delivering the above module, I am also contributing to entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation scrutiny activities and keep myself informed about the subject area and range of relevant modules within and outside Kingston University. This includes constantly observing the market and becoming familiar with what other HE institutions offer in terms of specialised knowledge, learning and teaching material, and industry activities.
I am also contributing/ taking responsibility for developing subject material and building professional network in my subject areas and in Entrepreneurship and Innovation outside Kingston.
In winter 2019 I initiated the first virtual quantitative methods training for the British Academy of Management (BAM). The workshops were called Quantitative Research for All (2 months, 5 sessions) and included range of methods and hands on skills for postgraduate students across the globe. The evidence of success was having up to 110 participants from 25 counties. (See https://www.bam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D3682%26amp%3Breset%3D1)
I am currently developing the content material in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship for a UCL project that is an online platform to improved students experience. https://studious.org.uk/
I am also taking Eir responsibility for London Metropolitan university in a shared research project funded by CABS (see Research, Leading to Grow project).
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