{"id":3403,"date":"2021-05-18T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/CESI\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:46:23","slug":"shaping-your-learning-community-at-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/shaping-your-learning-community-at-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaping your learning community at Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" data-attachment-id=\"3406\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/shaping-your-learning-community-at-cardiff\/group-of-students-working-in-team\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,335\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Multiethnic group of students sitting at the table with laptop and discussing homework together in team in the library&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1573686050&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Group of students working in team&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Group of students working in team\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Multiethnic group of students sitting at the table with laptop and discussing homework together in team in the library&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/CESI\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2-270x152.jpg 270w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2021\/05\/cropped-newsletter-img-2-370x208.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does&nbsp;Learning&nbsp;Community mean to you?&nbsp;In response to that question, you might be asking \u2018what does&nbsp;learning&nbsp;community even mean?\u2019&nbsp;which is&nbsp;something we&nbsp;at Cardiff&nbsp;are&nbsp;working hard to answer.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Most universities&nbsp;define&nbsp;learning community&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;sense of community&nbsp;which&nbsp;students&nbsp;and staff&nbsp;have within their learning environment (i.e.,&nbsp;the University).&nbsp;But to help us understand how to improve your learning community, we first need to understand&nbsp;exactly what that&nbsp;means to you, our students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The results of&nbsp;March and April\u2019s&nbsp;Cardiff&nbsp;Pulse&nbsp;shows&nbsp;that there is a real issue&nbsp;in students understanding what&nbsp;learning community&nbsp;means.&nbsp;&nbsp;Various other data sources, including the National Student Survey (NSS) and the Students\u2019 Union Speak Week,&nbsp;also&nbsp;highlight&nbsp;this&nbsp;as&nbsp;something we need to investigate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Learning Community Partnership&nbsp;Project&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">To&nbsp;address this issue,&nbsp;we have established a Learning Community&nbsp;Partnership Project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;partnership project consists of a Student Chair and a University staff member who work together&nbsp;to create a group&nbsp;and ensure&nbsp;its objectives are delivered.\u202fThis project&nbsp;was launched in&nbsp;October 2020&nbsp;and&nbsp;is looking to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-list\"><li>Understand&nbsp;the&nbsp;identity of a Learning Community for Cardiff University&nbsp;<\/li><li>Look at&nbsp;School level&nbsp;Learning Communities within academic Schools and identify&nbsp;improvements&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Analyse&nbsp;student feedback&nbsp;to inform&nbsp;findings&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Assess Cardiff\u2019s current provision of learning communities&nbsp;<\/li><li>Look at the role of societies in developing Learning&nbsp;Communities&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Look at the role of academic Schools in developing Learning&nbsp;Communities&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Look at the potential for technology to support Learning&nbsp;Communities&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We started by&nbsp;working with the&nbsp;Student Champions&nbsp;to analyse&nbsp;existing student&nbsp;feedback&nbsp;by coding free-text comments provided by students about learning community for themes. This helped us&nbsp;understand student perceptions of learning community and allowed us to focus our attention and resources.<br>&nbsp;<br>Based on&nbsp;the&nbsp;feedback, we were able to identify&nbsp;key&nbsp;themes which we used to inform a <a href=\"https:\/\/response.questback.com\/isa\/qbv.dll\/bylink?p=42BYwKLKvO7MTVoWYpkHYH-vTd6buDa25Jd9kq0uy5OZQFq3pxY4SxwVEReXLQzp8v8Q5ZkWperKPJjSylYBCA2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">learning communities survey <\/a>which you can now take part in, and we used the April Pulse to ask for your suggestions for improvement in this area. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;the&nbsp;current context our sense of community&nbsp;feels different but&nbsp;once restrictions are lifted, we&nbsp;will need to think about our&nbsp;future&nbsp;sense of community.&nbsp;This project will continue over the next two years&nbsp;to help us build a strong community over time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We will combine all&nbsp;your feedback&nbsp;to get&nbsp;an&nbsp;understanding of&nbsp;the perception of&nbsp;learning community at Cardiff and&nbsp;will&nbsp;create set of recommendations for the 2021\/22 academic&nbsp;year.&nbsp;We&nbsp;will review the impact of these changes in 2022\/23.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This will enable us to recommend improvements to your Schools and the wider University with regards to Learning Communities, informed by your feedback. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get involved<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019d like to&nbsp;get involved further, our&nbsp;survey&nbsp;is currently&nbsp;open&nbsp;and asks&nbsp;your opinions about what learning community means to you,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/response.questback.com\/isa\/qbv.dll\/bylink?p=42BYwKLKvO7MTVoWYpkHYH-vTd6buDa25Jd9kq0uy5OZQFq3pxY4SxwVEReXLQzp8v8Q5ZkWperKPJjSylYBCA2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">take part here&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Keep an eye on our <a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.cardiff.ac.uk\/students\/student-voice\/student-surveys\/cardiff-pulse-student-survey\/your-feedback\">Cardiff Pulse feedback pages<\/a> to stay\u00a0up to date\u00a0with changes we\u2019re making across\u00a0the University based on your\u00a0feedback.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Written by the CESI Student Engagement Team&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does&nbsp;Learning&nbsp;Community mean to you?&nbsp;In response to that question, you might be asking \u2018what does&nbsp;learning&nbsp;community even mean?\u2019&nbsp;which is&nbsp;something we&nbsp;at Cardiff&nbsp;are&nbsp;working hard to answer. 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