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Designing Blended Learning Opportunities: Principles for a

Digital Age !

Designing for Learning Showcase (D4L) University of Western Sydney

Werrington South Campus, Penrith December, 4 2014

Professor Mike Keppell Executive Director

Australian Digital Futures Institute Director, Digital Futures - CRN

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” !

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― Walt Disney Company

OverviewnWhat is the context? nExpectations nDeconstructing

blended learning nPlaces and spaces of

blended learning nDesign opportunities nChange management nChanging mindsets

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What is the Context?

2014 NMC Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education

Expectations

UWS Graduate Attributesn Commands multiple skills and literacies

to enable adaptable lifelong learning

n Demonstrates knowledge of Indigenous Australia through cultural competency and professional capacity

n Demonstrates comprehensive, coherent and connected knowledge

n Applies knowledge through intellectual inquiry in professional or applied contexts

n Brings knowledge to life through responsible engagement and appreciation of diversity in an evolving world

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Deconstructing Blended Learning

Blended LearningnThe blurring of face-to-face

learning and teaching and online learning is a significant shift for both learners and staff of universities.

nThis 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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Flexible learningnFlexible learning”

provides opportunities to improve the student learning experience through flexibility in time, pace, place, mode of study, teaching approach, forms of assessment and staffing.

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Blended & Flexible LearningnBlended and flexible

learning” is a design approach that examines the relationships between flexible learning opportunities, in order to optimise student engagement.(Keppell, 2010, p. 3;Garrison & Vaughan, 2008).

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Places and Spaces of Blended Learning

Formal On-campus

Informal On-campus

Informal Off-campus

Blended Learning

Face-to-face ‘Campus’

Formal On-campus

Informal On-campus

Formal/Informal Off-campus

Blended Learning ‘Campus’

Blended Learning

Physical Virtual

Formal Informal InformalFormal

Blended

Mobile Personal

Outdoor Professional Practice

Distributed Learning Spaces

Academic

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Virtual Learning Spaces

Design Opportunities

Learning DesignsnEnabling blends Address issues of access and equity. !nEnhancing blends Incremental changes to the pedagogy. !nTransforming blends Transformation of the pedagogy.

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Forms of Blended LearningActivity-level blending !Subject/course-level blending !Program/degree-level blending !Institutional-level blending

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Example

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Interactive learning (learner-to-content)

Networked learning (learner-to-learner; learner-to-teacher)

Student-generated content (learner-as-designers).

Connected students (knowledge is in the network)

Learning-oriented assessment (assessment-as-learning) (Keppell, 2014).

Interactions

Learning Design PrinciplesnMake explicit links to

the Maths and Science Australian Curriculum

nConsider the relationship of the content to years 7 & 8 and years 11 & 12.

nFocus on authentic learning

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Learning Design Principles

nDesign interactive sessions that engage learners through:

nInteractive learning nNetworked learning nUser-generated content nConnecting online nLearning-oriented assessment.

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Teaching PrinciplesnMake all interactive sessions

learning centred. nCreate a partnership with

your learners. nConnect with parents, other

teachers and learners as learning is a community activity.

nMotivate and inspire learners to engage with Maths and Science.

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Change Management

!n http://www.slideshare.net/mkeppell/csu-report-jov3hrtd05082013 n http://learningleadershipstudy.wordpress.com

Distributive LeadershipnCharacteristics: collaboration, shared purpose, responsibility and recognition of leadership irrespective of role within an organisation.

nCentral premise: good leadership is foundational to good learning and teaching practice.

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Open Educational Resources

Changing Mindsets

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Design thinking by its nature is strategic and future focussed. !

It is a thoughtful and considered pedagogical approach to ensure relevance for both learners and teachers.

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Interactive learning (learner-to-content)

Networked learning (learner-to-learner; learner-to-teacher)

Student-generated content (learner-as-designers).

Connected students (knowledge is in the network)

Learning-oriented assessment (assessment-as-learning) (Keppell, 2014).

Teacher Mindsets

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Digital literacies (competencies, fluency, design)

Seamless learning (formal, informal, F2F, blended, online, mobile)

Self-regulated learning (scaffolded, strategic, autonomous)

Learning-oriented assessment (authentic, negotiated, self-assessment)

Life-long learning (short-term, figure-focussed, being a learner)

Learning pathways (prescribed, electives, open) (Keppell, 2015 in-press)

Learner Mindsets

Institutional MindsetsnEncouraging teacher and

learner mindsets

nFocussing on blending a the degree level

nEmbracing blended learning throughout all learning and teaching and assessment

nUtilising distributive leadership to create strategic change

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