Reimagining Courses and Modules for Lifelong Learning

Join us in Oxford or online for a fascinating free workshop with Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris, as part of her Visiting Fellowship series.

About the event

This interactive workshop supports participants to move from theory to practice by collaboratively redesigning programmes, modules or elements of provision for lifelong learners. Building on the preceding lecture, it uses a charrette-style design process to explore how evidence about student lives, engagement and belonging can inform practical pedagogic decisions.

Participants will work with prompts drawn from the Being, Belonging, Becoming (BBB) survey and related research to challenge assumptions about availability and engagement, and to identify where existing designs may unintentionally exclude learners at different life stages. The session explores how assessment, interaction and programme coherence can be adapted to support flexible and modular participation while maintaining academic standards.

The workshop is collaborative and cross-role, welcoming academic and professional services staff, students and others involved in learning design or student experience. No prior expertise is required.

To attend online, follow this link at the scheduled time of the talk. (You can choose this option if the event is sold out!). Please note that this event will be recorded.

To attend in-person, please book a place on this page. Places to attend in-person are limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. This event will take place in Room 301 in the Language Centre.

About the series

Designing Lifelong Learning: Evidence, Belonging and Co-Creation in Practice is a series of three interconnected events moves from theory to practice to collaboration. While designed as a coherent whole, each session can also be attended as a standalone event. Colleagues across Oxford Lifelong Learning are invited to engage with the series with a view to developing joint research or practice during and beyond the Visiting Fellowship. Find the first and third event of this series on our Eventbrite page.

About our speaker

Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris is Provost and Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Higher Education, at the University of Buckingham. She provides strategic leadership for learning, teaching and research and is widely recognised for her work on student experience, student–staff partnership and evidence-informed educational change. Among other cross-institutional initiatives, she is currently overseeing work on her institution’s approach to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement, exploring its implications for curriculum design, pedagogy and flexible provision.