2015 learning, teaching & assessment @ swinburne

Learning, Teaching and Assessment @Swinburne

Professor Mike KeppellPro Vice-Chancellor, Learning Transformations

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2015 Technology Outlook: Trends

Formal on-campus

teachingspaces

Informalon-campus

learning spaces

Online learning and teaching

spacesBlended Learning

On-Campus Learning and Teaching at Swinburne

• The disintegration of the distinction and the growing acceptance that learning occurs in different ‘places’ presents both exciting and challenging opportunities for higher education.

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What is the University Campus?

• Formal teaching spaces

• Informal learning spaces

•Online learning and teaching spaces

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Guiding Pedagogies

Guiding Pedagogies

• Authentic learning

• Authentic assessment

• Personalised Learning

• Peer learning

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Authentic Learning• …require students to complete

complex real-world tasks over a period of time in collaboration with others as they would in a real setting or workplace(Herrington, 2006)

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Authentic Assessment• Empowering the learner by engaging

them in assessment tasks that simulate or engage the learner in real-life situations.

• “Engaging and worthy problems or questions of importance, in which students must use knowledge to fashion performances effectively and creatively” (Wiggins, 1993, p. 229).

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Personalised Learning

• Learning pathways

• ePortfolios

• The knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable learning and act as a catalyst to empower the learner to continue to learn (Keppell, 2015)

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Peer Learning• Students teaching and learning from

each other.

• Sharing ideas, knowledge andexperiences

• Emphasises interdependent asopposed to independent learning (Boud,2001).

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2015 Technology Outlook: Challenges

Rethinking the Roles of Educators

Blended & Online

Learning Analytics


Scholarship of Teaching and

Learning

Open EducationOERsDigital

literacies

Authentic Assessment

SpacesMobile

LTU MissionOur mission is to transform practice across the faculties and PAVE by inspiring, enabling and empoweringteaching staff to develop capacity and capability in innovative teaching and learning.

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LEARNING TRANSFORMATIONS

PORTFOLIOS

Blended & Online Learning


and ePortfolios

Events, Seminars in the Digital Aquarium

Graduate Certificate of Learning and

Teaching

Scholarship of Learning and

Teaching

Learning Design

Authentic Assessment

Learning Transformations

Conference

Open Education, Open TextbooksOERs, MOOCs

PAVE

Virtual Lab Simulator for Science Education

Labs for Introductory Courses

Advanced labs – 25+ modules total