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Blended Learning in UWS
Overview
• Drivers for change
• Curriculum redesign
• Technology
• Space design
• Projects
“The higher education sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation in terms of its
role in society, mode of operation, and economic structure and value”
Source: Ernst & Young “University of the Future” 2012
Blended learning is a driver of
change for the universities of the
future
Source: Ernst & Young “University of the Future” 2012
Blended learning at UWS refers to a strategic and systematic approach to combining times and modes of learning, integrating the best
aspects of face-to-face and online interactions for each discipline, using appropriate ICTs.
Drivers
• UWS responding to the needs of: – Students who work as well as study
– Students who have children
– Mature age students
– Students who have to travel between campuses
– School leavers
– Students who are time poor
What does blended learning look like?
Online lectures & on-campus seminars
Group assignments & online peer review of
work
Creating and sharing content
Intensive on-campus learning
Study groups
Site-based learning
Access to learning anytime
Use UWS technologies with my own
Flexible for me
Social networks
The student experience
• Offers on campus experience
• Progressively prepares students for more blended learning
• Is discipline context specific
• Provides different avenues for interaction
• Offers fully off-campus as an option
Transforming learning
• Content curation • Collaboration • Engagement • Facilitation • Learning supports • Inspiration • Motivation • Flexibility
Blending it all
• Benefits of blended learning occur at the individual, social, activity, unit, course and university levels
• Paradigms of blended learning include enabling, enhancing, supporting and transforming
• Designing optimal learning spaces, virtual and physical, will be a key success factor for blended learning
Curriculum and teaching
• Teaching Development Unit
PVC Education
TDU
school school school school school school school school school
Curriculum and teaching
• Creating options and opportunities in the curriculum for: – Face to face lectures / tutorials
– On-line / flexible delivery
– Interactive on-line delivery
Technologies
• Wireless integration of BYOD with AV systems
• Wireless integration of BYOD with central software systems
• Echo360 to support lecture capture
• vUWS – on-line teaching tool
Diversity of learning spaces
Physical Blended Virtual
Formal Informal Informal Formal
Mobile Personal
Outdoor
Teaching spaces
• Flexible and adaptable spaces for collaborative learning
• Mobile furniture
• Wireless technology
• Multiple AV projection screens
• Charging stations for electronic devices
• Writing surfaces on 4 walls
Learning commons
• Connected hot spots on the campus with the McDonald’s phenomenon
• Consistent in space, look and feel • Meeting places / market places • Large spaces with synergies with the library • Hybrid of formal and informal spaces • Flexible and adaptable learning spaces • Spaces for students and teachers
Hot spots
• Connected by unifying principles that is recognisable through: – Function
– Technology provided
– Signage & graphics
Approval process
• Learning commons – Executive – Steering Committee
• PVC(Students), PVC(Education, Dir-ITS, Dir-CWF, Library
– Reference Group • Blended Learning
consultant, CWF, ITS, Library, TDU, Student Services, MESH
– Stakeholder Group • Student reps, Library, TDU,
ITS, Student Services, Disability
• Teaching spaces – PVC (Education) Sign-off – Reference Group
• TDU, ITS, CWF, Library – Stakeholder Group
• TDU, ITS, CWF, Schools, Timetabling, Exams
Collaboration
• Students
• eLearning Team
• Academic Staff
• CW&F
• IT Services
• Library
The past
Looking forward
Teaching Spaces
Looking forward
Learning Commons
Projects
• Teaching spaces – Campbelltown building 10
– Bankstown building 20
– Parramatta building EB
• Learning commons – Parramatta building EFa Pavilion
– Bankstown building 1
– Hawkesbury building G1
Positive Deviance
“Somewhere in your organisation, groups of
people are already doing things differently and
better. To create lasting change, find areas of positive deviance and
fan their flames.”
- Pascale and Sterin (Harvard Business Review, 2010)