Evaluation update September 2012

Introduction

The evaluation is based on the Teaching and Learning Plan Evaluation (Student as Producer), which incorporates Key Performance Indicators (May 2012).

The Plan distinguishes between internal and external sources of information that form the basis for determining the achievements of SaP. The data collection and analysis will be focused on the further improvements of SaP’s contribution to the research engaged teaching and learning strategy of the University.

Timeline, reporting structure and activities

Date	Title	content
15 October 2012	Baseline report	Internal information sources – quality processes, UROS, FED, academic outputs, conversations with participants, workshop, infrastructure (technology, learning landscapes, student experience, etc); recommendations for further SaP activities
15 February 2013	Impact report	Impact of developmental SaP activities (documents, interviews, self-assessments, workshops), and of external information sources (impact on debate HE, academic outputs)
15 April 2013	Final report	Analysis of the developments, summary of impact and recommendations for the teaching and learning strategy
End June 2013 (2 days)	Conference	Presentations, discussions and celebrations with an (inter)national invited speakers and audience at UoL

Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus

A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth hangs open, his wings are spread. This is how the angel of history must look. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage hurling it before his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

— Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History” in Illuminations (1940).

Student as Producer is based on a number of intellectual projects, including critical social theory. Walter Benjamin (1892 -1940) was a central figure among a group of critical social theorists writing in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. His article, Author as Producer (1934), is a key text for the development of Student as Producer

Author: Martha Vahl