{"id":1125,"date":"2018-10-08T17:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2018-10-09T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T15:07:28","slug":"a-case-study-on-student-retention-on-a-foundation-year-in-arts-and-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/a-case-study-on-student-retention-on-a-foundation-year-in-arts-and-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"A case study on student retention on a Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 6 minute video, Martin discusses how programme design and delivery is tailored to the needs of Foundation Year students and how support is coordinated across the programme team with a focus on retention and success.\u00a0 <!--more-->This includes assessment design to drive in-module student engagement, early identification and referral for mental health and educational support needs (44% of students were concerned in 2017\/18), reassessment surgeries (15 out of 21 students successfully engaged in 2017\/18) and proactive monitoring of attendance and engagement with Blackboard.\u00a0 Martin concludes that these and other strategies have contributed to high retention of the Foundation Year since its inception in 2015\/16, with a provisional figure of 82% of the 2017\/18 cohort progressing onto level 4.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Martin Watts   Student Retention  a Case Study with narrative\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-GEKmPnVDJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Four Approaches to Using Blackboard to Aid Retention<\/h3>\n<p>The case study refers to some quick reports you can run with a few clicks in Blackboard to checking on your learners\u2019 activity. \u00a0The first 5 minutes of this video shows how to do this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Retention   Practical Tools in Blackboard for Academic Staff mp4 wtasqg1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/16bRs6Buy_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video includes further ways of encouraging and evaluating engagement in Blackboard including the &#8216;Mark Reviewed&#8217; option to show learners have read key content, quizzes to check learners\u2019 understanding and discussion forum-based FAQs to save time and promote peer support.<\/p>\n<p>Contact your Faculty Learning Technologist for more information or if you are interested in a workshop for your School or programme team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 6 minute video, Martin discusses how programme design and delivery is tailored to the needs of Foundation Year students and how support is coordinated across the programme team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3361,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,9,110],"tags":[49,122,134,126,118,114,101,130],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities","category-case-study","category-media","tag-assessment","tag-develop-autonomous-learning","tag-foundation-year","tag-learning-environment","tag-personal-academic-tutor","tag-retention","tag-student-engagement","tag-technology-enhanced-learning"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Claire Haines","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/545\/2018\/10\/student-group.jpg","postExcerpt":"In this 6 minute video, Martin discusses how programme design and delivery is tailored to the needs of Foundation Year students and how support is coordinated across the programme team [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/prism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}