Academic Workload Estimation Tool

AWET Forum

Please use this forum to make any constructive comments or suggestions about how we can improve the AWET. Your feedback is important to us so we can improve the AWET. Once you have had some experience with using it, we would appreciate some more formal feedback using the online survey, which can be found by clicking the following link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7NLKD5. You can add your comments to a topic (please provide a name and contact e-mail address which will not be published). If you would like to suggest a new topic, please e-mail one of the AWET authors using our contact details on the home page.

Accountability for workload

“The status quo in universities, where most academic workload models underestimate or ignore much of the scholarly work academics do, serves the interests of university management by restraining costs. The AWET has the potential to address this, because it is transparent and provides realistic estimates of most activities academics do. Through this accountability, the AWET […]

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January 25, 2023
Nomenclature

One of the areas we have been considering to make the AWET more useful is how to configure it for different institutions. The forms of nomenclature used in range of organisations vary. For example, a teaching component of a degree might be ‘unit’, ‘course’, or ‘paper’; the organiser of such a component might be ‘unit […]

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November 30, 2022