This case study investigates the attempt in 2007-8 to transform the experience of teaching and learning on a well-established Level 1 undergraduate module at a large Business School. It looks at the experience of developing a new-style module within the confines of the existing University structures and reflects on the learning from the first run-through the challenges that arose and the issues which remain.
This innovation has involved the introduction of a 'Graduate Development Programme' (GDP) into an existing compulsory module 'Management and Organisational Behaviour' (MOB). The experience has challenged many of our preconceptions and assumptions about the nature of teaching and learning in the Business School and has made us question the aims of the course its content and structure and the nature of the student-tutor relationship. At the end of the first year of implementation we are in a position to report on what we have done but also on the ongoing challenges with which we are presented. We believe that the potential interest for others may lie as much in the questions the experience has raised as in any local solutions we may have found.
