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Managing Teaching and Learning Facilities

SUMS Consulting has engaged with its members about the implications of the new blended learning environment for physical spaces and the need for new ways of supporting these spaces.

To deliver this service SUMS:

• Analyses the University’s offering to the student by reviewing how the student engages with the University
• Benchmarks the provision of student computing, teaching and learning facilities
• Reviews learning support desks and complementary staff skill requirements
• Shares good practice between Members through presentations and workshops.

Significant outcomes from this work are:

• Seminar material for SUMS' members and for a wider audience
• An understanding of how integrated services’ (one-stop-shop) concepts are best applied to supporting the student.

Recent assignments in this area are:

• A review and evaluation of the options for the future provision of student IT for teaching and learning: Oxford-Brookes (Assignment number 1001)
• A review of library services for off-campus learners : Birkbeck (Assignment number 1040)
• An options analysis for the provision of a one-stop-shop for information resource and learner support: Brunel University; this drew on practices at Hertfordshire, Kent and KCL. (Assignment number 1050).