The Vice Chancellor's Group have agreed the following high-level guidance to recognise academic workload associated with blended delivery in 2020/21. These changes are to help teams reprioritise work and temporarily redistribute BAW points from less critical activities to the production and delivery of online learning materials
The high-level guidance is:
- Where colleagues are required to create new material for online delivery, up to 0.3 to 0.5 additional BAW points per hours' worth of material created will be allocated;
- Where colleagues need to develop and practice new skills for preparation and delivery of online material up to 10 additional BAW points may be allocated for relevant CPD activities;
- Where additional student groups must be taught in order to comply with social distancing requirements additional BAW points will be allocated as per the main BAW guidance.
In recognition of the blended delivery requirements, we are also providing some teams with additional graduate teaching assistants, but finances will not support large scale additional teaching resource or staffing.
Where academic colleagues wish to develop more sophisticated and innovative online delivery methods which may assist in their academic development whilst being clearly beneficial to the student experience or learning, they should be encouraged to do so and to disseminate their experiences, for example through the UoG SHIFT conference or appropriate pedagogic media. Where this occurs, the RSA BAW allocation points should be utilised.
If you have any questions about this guidance, please speak to your Head of School/Head of Department.
