Leeds Metropolitan Coaching Objects Workshop

A two-day workshop at Leeds Metropolitan University to produce "Coaching Objects" (or learning objects for coaching) is proving to be very interesting and productive. We have six highly motivated teams creating all manner of media assets, some of them realised in quirkily creative ways. The Sport and Education team are taking a wide-angle view on coaching practices, looking at the issues of peer-mentoring large cohorts of students. The Innovation North team is using GLO-maker to show how to conduct an effective job interview - and how not to.. (GLO-maker is proving a popular choice of authoring tool with its really simple to use features). Meanwhile, the Business School group have been grappling with the vexing and perennial problem of how to get students to understand statistical data and how it can be analysed. This is potentially an enormous problem space and they've had to seriously distill their initial broad learning objectives down to a more manageable size. The PC3 project group are focusing on a model of "Intentional Change" and have created a simple yet charming hand-drawn animation to illustrate one aspect of the model, which they will use as a media asset in GLO-maker. The team from the Library are exploring coaching within a teaching & learning context using the SMART technique. Finally, the Health Faculty group are showing how to make the most of a tutorial, also using GLO-maker. The sheer range of approaches and outputs is inspiring and the teams seem to be thoroughly enjoying the protected time and access to all the tools and templates.