Teaching Effort Analytics
Helping leaders understand the drivers of teaching capacity to inform better decisions on teaching delivery, portfolio design and workforce planning.
Universities are under increasing pressure to reduce teaching costs while improving student outcomes. To achieve this, leaders are rethinking what and how they teach, focusing on innovative design and efficient use of teaching capacity to deliver high-quality education with limited resources. However, progress is often hindered by poor-quality data, disparate tools, and lack of visibility for senior staff to assess the impact of portfolios, approaches and workload distribution practices.
Teaching Effort Analytics is a solution which provides universities with a comprehensive view of teaching effort and access to new insights, including:
Teaching Effort
Robust, comparative analysis of the availability and deployment of academic capacity for teaching down to the sub-discipline level
Drivers of Effort
Granular insights on the drivers of teaching capacity and the impact of taught portfolio size and shape, academic workload practices, and teaching models
Lead practice
Access to peer forums, case studies and expert advice on how to invest and innovate in teaching to enable scale and growth
Why Teaching Effort Analytics?
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Improve Academic Workforce Planning
- Empower staff with greater transparency in teaching resourcing decisions and workforce planning
- Understand how your teaching capacity and cost compares to other institutions globally
- Support evidence-based dialogue on investment in the academic workforce within and across discipline areas
- Empower academic leads with robust benchmarks to support local decision making on teaching allocations and workforce requirements
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Inform Changes to Workload Allocations
- Refine academic workload models to enable sustainable teaching allocations and improved student experience
- Gain a robust and comparative view of teaching allocation models across all areas of teaching
- Identify areas of under- and over-resourcing and where this might be impacting academic workloads, cost of delivery and the student experience
- Better manage teaching and coordination allocations to ensure sustainable and equitable teaching workloads
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Optimise Taught Portfolio Size and Shape
- Better manage the taught portfolio to enable more efficient teaching delivery and sustainable growth
- Understand how your portfolio is impacting teaching effort and student choice
- Identify opportunities to sustainably grow student enrolments within portfolio and workforce constraints
- Optimise the taught portfolio in response to changing or declining student enrolments
- Assess the cost of introducing new programs and disciplinary areas
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Target Investment in Teaching Differently
- Identify opportunities to improve teaching efficiency and outcomes through innovation and lead practice
- Understand the range of teaching models in use at your university, and how these compare to other institutions
- Identify where assessment practices are adding to teaching effort, driving use of GTAs, casual staffing costs and increasing moderation
- Identify opportunities to focus effort on teaching and student interaction and reduce time on unnecessary effort
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Plan, Deliver and Track Changes in Teaching
- Leverage data and tools to design, model and monitor impacts of changes to teaching delivery investments
- Evaluate the impact of changes to taught portfolio, academic resourcing and pedagogy
- Identify opportunities and model the impact of new changes teaching effort and delivery
- Inform robust business cases for investment in curriculum and pedagogy transformation
Improve Academic Workforce Planning
- Empower staff with greater transparency in teaching resourcing decisions and workforce planning
- Understand how your teaching capacity and cost compares to other institutions globally
- Support evidence-based dialogue on investment in the academic workforce within and across discipline areas
- Empower academic leads with robust benchmarks to support local decision making on teaching allocations and workforce requirements
Inform Changes to Workload Allocations
- Refine academic workload models to enable sustainable teaching allocations and improved student experience
- Gain a robust and comparative view of teaching allocation models across all areas of teaching
- Identify areas of under- and over-resourcing and where this might be impacting academic workloads, cost of delivery and the student experience
- Better manage teaching and coordination allocations to ensure sustainable and equitable teaching workloads
Optimise Taught Portfolio Size and Shape
- Better manage the taught portfolio to enable more efficient teaching delivery and sustainable growth
- Understand how your portfolio is impacting teaching effort and student choice
- Identify opportunities to sustainably grow student enrolments within portfolio and workforce constraints
- Optimise the taught portfolio in response to changing or declining student enrolments
- Assess the cost of introducing new programs and disciplinary areas
Target Investment in Teaching Differently
- Identify opportunities to improve teaching efficiency and outcomes through innovation and lead practice
- Understand the range of teaching models in use at your university, and how these compare to other institutions
- Identify where assessment practices are adding to teaching effort, driving use of GTAs, casual staffing costs and increasing moderation
- Identify opportunities to focus effort on teaching and student interaction and reduce time on unnecessary effort
Plan, Deliver and Track Changes in Teaching
- Leverage data and tools to design, model and monitor impacts of changes to teaching delivery investments
- Evaluate the impact of changes to taught portfolio, academic resourcing and pedagogy
- Identify opportunities and model the impact of new changes teaching effort and delivery
- Inform robust business cases for investment in curriculum and pedagogy transformation
Some of the universities we work with
A holistic solution for university leaders
Combining Teaching Effort Analytics with Professional Services Analytics and Service Effectiveness Assessment data provides university leaders with valuable insights to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of professional services, student satisfaction and teaching delivery.
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