Yuen Yuen Yip CAUDITpresentation

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)