New QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Projects announced
| Date: | January 22 - 2024 |
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QAA has announced the 18 exciting new initiatives to be funded under our Collaborative Enhancement Projects scheme for 2024.
The scheme funds groups of institutions to work together on projects to enhance the quality of the student learning experience, offering outputs that benefit the wider QAA Membership and the HE sector as a whole.
Now in its fourth year, the scheme has proven even more competitive than ever, with 147 different proposals being put forward for consideration during this latest round.
‘There were so many brilliant ideas, we wish we could have funded them all,’ says Sally-Anne Saull, QAA's Membership Services Delivery Manager. ‘The selection process was a long, difficult and inspiring task, but we're very happy to be supporting these 18 fantastic projects.’
Given recent interest and concerns the technology has provoked, it comes as no surprise that a third of the successful proposals focus on the prospective roles and potential impacts of artificial intelligence in higher education.
Other projects will explore a range of topics including degree apprenticeships, exam boards, skills and achievement gaps, learner assessment, engagement and attainment, modes of study and the student voice.
‘We're delighted to be able to fund these projects,’ says Dr Ailsa Crum, QAA's Director of Membership, Quality Enhancement and Standards. ‘The quality of the proposals we received was very high. This is a real testament to the passion of the higher education sector and the desire of our members to enhance the quality of their students' learning experiences.’
The 18 projects being funded are:
- Using Generative AI as a force for good to promote education for sustainable development and support the development of students' digital skills with a particular focus on mature and BAME students (project lead: London Metropolitan University)
- Supporting the ethical and equitable use of Generative AI for formative and summative assessment: A transnational perspective (project lead: King's College London)
- Making human learning visible in a world of invisible Generative AI: An international perspective from the Universities of Bath (UK) and Stellenbosch (ZA) (project lead: University of Bath)
- AI in higher education (project lead: University of Brighton)
- Exploring the opportunities that Generative AI offers for higher education (project lead: Kingston University)
- Using AI in learning and teaching in art and design (project lead: Nottingham Trent University)
- Evaluating the impact of apprenticeship skills coaches on degree apprenticeships (project lead: University Centre Quayside)
- The future of exam boards (project lead: University of Bristol)
- Exploring graduate and employer perceptions and expectations of the support provided for the learner-earner journey and mechanisms to bridge the digital skills gap (project lead: Northumbria University)
- The effectiveness of institutional data in identifying the drivers of awarding gaps (project lead: University of Sussex)
- Compassionate assessment in higher education (project lead: University of Bedfordshire)
- Engaging staff and students with assessment: enhancing assessment literacy through a comprehensive toolkit for balancing expectations with students' effort and time (project lead: Coventry University)
- A competence-based assessment framework (project lead: University of Hull)
- Examining how educational collaborative partnership providers can effectively enhance student engagement and delivery in higher education programmes (project lead: University of Plymouth)
- Standing out in the crowd: A best practice framework for inclusive and effective student engagement (project lead: University of Lincoln)
- Improving retention and attainment: the promotion of the 'sticky course' (project lead: De Montfort University)
- Investigating differing modes of study (project lead: University of Roehampton)
- The audit of student representation and voice practices project (project lead: University of Nottingham).
To find out more about all our QAA-funded Collaborative Enhancement Projects, including those already completed, please visit our Collaborative Enhancement Projects webpage.
We look forward to sharing fuller details of each project as their plans come to fruition.