From August 22 to 25, the Mikhailovskaya Dacha campus of St. Petersburg University became a platform for like-minded people who are passionate about course design and learning outcomes management. The annual GSOM SPbU Summer School for teachers, methodologists and heads of universities and corporate universities was held there.



This year, the main topic of the Summer School was the design of courses and the alignment of the assessment procedure at the university. The participants are sure that the educational system is going through a period of rapid transformation now. Learning requires a completely different degree of involvement, and the result that the student must receive must be special: not just a set of knowledge, but the ability to learn and successfully apply constantly updated knowledge in practice. The key to such learning is not only the experience of the teacher, but also the use of design based on the principles of modern educational design. In addition, the support of a modern teacher is the selection of suitable tools and assessment tools that allow you to see that the goals set for training have been achieved and help you correct the process in time.

Olga Alkanova, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence in Business Education, GSOM SPbU

“This year, the participants figured out how to create effective learning for the whole course. The Center team specifically engaged external experts to develop a training program in order to make the lecture content as versatile and applicable as possible at the moment. As a result, the participants received expertise not only from the team of the Center for Teaching Excellence, but also from our colleagues from other universities.

The program itself was built around practical teamwork. The students redesigned the courses jointly and, tried to put the learned tools into practiceon the basis of this task. We decided to bet on live communication. After all, it is the full-time format that allows you to fully immerse yourself in the design process. In this sense, for the second year in a row, the GSOM SPbU Summer School has become a unique platform where participants can reconsider here and now their approaches to working on courses and classes and understand what and how they will change in their work in the upcoming academic year.”

In 2023, the Summer School program was developed by the Center for Teaching Excellence in Business Education at GSOM SPbU together with members of the Method.GSOM community — experts from the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

The organizer of the Summer School is the Center for Teaching Excellence in Business Education at GSOM SPbU. You can read more about the Center here. The community about modern teaching methods Method.GSOM

The participants of the Summer School understood how course design is connected with the tools of formative and resultant assessment in universities. During the workshop from the School experts and practical work the participants researched what formats of the resulting assessment can help the teacher measure the result most accurately and what approaches to formative assessment will help to assess the progress of the group “in the moment” and give high-quality feedback to the audience.

Olga Ushakova, Deputy Vice-Rector for Education of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, member of the Method.GSOM community

“It is not so much about changing the means of assessment (although these tools are also changing today), but about a new perception of the assessment procedure and the assessment itself. While analyzing various aspects of the procedure with the participants of the Summer School along with solving the main task — building a logical system of assessment for the course — we found answers to the important questions: how a teacher should integrate assessment into his schedule, how to choose an assessment tool to make it as objective and meeting the goals of the course as possible and useful for students."

 

 

 

During the project work the participants of the Summer School went through the full path of redesigning the course based on data and the request of the training customer, figured out the role of formative and resulting assessment, as well as metrics that allow the teacher to understand what students really learned.

Daria Lazutina, Director of the Finance and Economic Institute, Tyumen State University

“Having worked in the scientific and educational environment for almost twenty-five years I can say that designing is important for both the teaching staff and the head of educational programs, and for everyone in general. It is very important that at this Summer School the organizers managed to connect universities and corporate universities. We all have learned to apply not only the experience that we have, but also to take into account the specifics of those educational institutions that are present here. We will definitely put into practice the educational results that we managed to achieve during the event.”

The result of the project work of the participants of the Summer School was the presentation of the revised courses. Teachers will be able to apply the knowledge and skills gained in the work on the "training" courses and within the framework of the lecture program in their work in the new academic year.

The Summer School was attended by 62 representatives of universities and corporate universities in Russia and the CIS: Far Eastern Federal University, Siberian Federal University, Tomsk State University, Higher School of Economics, Almaty Management University, Sberbank Corporate University, Gazprom Neft Corporate University, Corporate University of Russian Railways, Corporate University of the Central Bank and others.

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