DSC PVC May

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VISUAL: RMIT University logo.

VISUAL: Professor Paul Gough and Tania Broadley seated across each other.

[Paul Gough]

Hello, my name's Paul Gough, I'm the PVC for Design and Social Context.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Professor Paul Gough, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, College of Design and Social Context.

And I'm here in the Press Play Studios at City campus in Melbourne here to interview Tania Broadley, our new Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching.

So, Tania, what brought you to RMIT?

TEXT ON SCREEN: Tania Broadley, Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching, College of Design and Social Context.

[Tania Broadley]

Lots of things brought me to RMIT, Paul. Really exciting initiatives occurring at RMIT. A very large multi-campus, offshore location institution, which I think offers a range of complexity and opportunities in my focus area of learning and teaching. And lots of great people working here who I'm really excited to work with.

[Paul Gough]

And what's your first impressions of the College?

[Tania Broadley]

The College is absolutely astounding. There are a number of things happening in the College which have blown me away since I've come to RMIT. I'm certainly very impressed by the calibre of our academic staff, and the very high-quality professional staff that support all of the learning and teaching and research initiatives. Not to mention WIL and Community Engagement. Lots of great work happening. I think the intellectual and cultural offerings that we have in the College and what that brings for the student experience is certainly something that I'm really impressed by as I've come to RMIT.

[Paul Gough]

Sounds great, I want to work there.

[Tania Broadley]

You do.

[Paul Gough]

We've got 24,500 students, 1100 staff, 2,000 sessional staff. Brings with it a lot of challenges, in terms of quality, in terms of assessment, in terms of up to date learning and teaching. What are the real challenges that you see at the moment for us all?

[Tania Broadley]

That's a really good question. And, I think, as we move into a new funding model, regardless of the government who win the next election, we will see a real push toward a performance-based funding for quality indicators of learning and teaching. And what that means for us as a College is really working from a strengths-based approach. Looking at where we are, doing really great things in learning and teaching and how we're achieving that. And then, really looking at where maybe our areas of weakness are and how we strengthen around that.

You mentioned assessment and quality feedback for students, and I think that's something that's really dear to the student's heart. How do we actually improve our assessment practices? Look at authentic learning activities? What that means for our industry? What that means for our students and our staff? How do we look at our really important feedback approaches and what does that look like in the 21st century and beyond? There's a lot to be said around digital use of feedback, how much of that are we using? So, I'm really interested in working with our staff to see where we're at, where we want to be going forward, how we look at the quality of our assessment practices? And I think that's going to become more and more critical in the future.

[Paul Gough]

And I think one of our real pedagogic strengths is around the Partner Project, Partner Studios, the way we work with industry. Have you been able to see examples of that played out in the College?

[Tania Broadley]

Well, given I've been here a relatively short time, I have had snippets of wonderful examples presented to me. I've been into the School of Architecture and Urban and Design, where Martin Hook has certainly walked me through the studio approach. Working with the academic development groups as well that are in my team, many of them are looking at the vertically integrated Studios and how that's supported through Canvas. So, really starting to get my head into the studio design principles.

[Paul Gough]

And other interventions we're making through the areas of focus. I'm thinking of Microsurgery, as it was once called, and the Program Principles. How-- what kind of progress are we making there?

[Tania Broadley]

That's a really good question. We certainly are making progress with our areas of focus work. So, not only the program transformation, where we're looking at our divine 9 and our fabulous 15, but also looking at the Microsurgery approach. And it's pretty ambitious, when you look at the 2,000 courses across the University that will be taken through the Microsurgery approach for 2019. And in the College, we're really looking at how we can use our academic development groups to be able to support the program managers down to the course level, to be able to look at those improvements, and really look at our student experience. What does it mean? What are the impacts, and how do we improve the CES through that work?

[Paul Gough]

Great. Well thanks Tania. I know in the three months you've been here, you're delightful to work with, you're making a huge impact and a real difference to DSC.

So, there's plenty of more information contained in this update. I'll see you again next month and I'll be joined by other wonderful people from the College, so look forward to seeing you again soon. Bye for now.

VISUAL: RMIT University logo.

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The RMIT Design Market featured work from current and past students in the art and design areas. 

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Duration: 1:08 seconds

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RMIT Design Market

The RMIT Design Market at Melbourne Central features unique works by RMIT alumni and current design students. 

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RMIT students and alumni interact with customers at the various arts and crafts stalls interweaved with visuals of the products on sale at the market.

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