Engaging Students with The Edinburgh Award: Innovating Work Experience Programs
"Discover how The Edinburgh Award successfully engaged students at scale, distance, and during vacations by moving their program online. Learn about the results, future plans, and strategies used to manage workflows and enhance student participation."
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The Edinburgh Award: Engaging students at scale, at distance, and during vacation Lizzie Mortimer Careers Consultant Elizabeth.mortimer@ed.ac.uk Inspiring futures
The context: Edinburgh Award (Summer Work Experience) This version of the Award recognises student involvement in summer work experience. Alongside setting development goals and submitting written reflections on their experience, participants must attend inputs at the start, middle and end of the Award. Challenge with scaling the Award, programme required a face-to-face session in Edinburgh in both May and September. In 2017 we put the Award full online, using a variety of platforms to support it, and a blend of synchronous and asynchronous inputs Inspiring futures
Using MyCareerHub to manage workflow Inspiring futures
Engaging students using Collaborate Polls Message board Interactive white board Break out rooms for group exercises Inspiring futures
Results I think the Award was really well-organised and I liked the use of Padlet as it was interesting to see what everyone else was doing over their summer and the projects they were involved in. It was convenient I would have been unable to attend sessions in person here in Edinburgh It has been excellent. If we had to participate in non-online sessions, it could be a bit complicated to do it. 100% would recommend to a friend 160% increase in participants since moving fully online 20% improvement in retention Significant staff time saved Inspiring futures
Future plans Offer a year-round Edinburgh Award (Work Experience) programme with flexible roll on and roll off points Continue to scale participation, automating the process as much as possible to ease admin burden Incorporating peer review of submissions through Learn PeerMark Inspiring futures
