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Empowering Staff to Empowering Staff to Redesign Courses and Redesign Courses and Enhance Learning and Enhance Learning and Teaching in E-Learning Teaching in E-Learning

EnvironmentsEnvironments

Empowering Staff to Empowering Staff to Redesign Courses and Redesign Courses and Enhance Learning and Enhance Learning and Teaching in E-Learning Teaching in E-Learning

EnvironmentsEnvironments

Professor Mike KeppellProfessor Mike Keppell

Director, The Flexible Learning InstituteDirector, The Flexible Learning Institute

Charles Sturt UniversityCharles Sturt University

Professor Mike KeppellProfessor Mike Keppell

Director, The Flexible Learning InstituteDirector, The Flexible Learning Institute

Charles Sturt UniversityCharles Sturt University

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OverviewOverview

Context for distance

learners

Designing through

perspectives

Course symposiums

Teaching Fellowship

Scheme

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Context for Distance LearnersContext for Distance Learners

Growing acceptance that learning occurs in

different ‘places’ - on-campus/off-campus

Approaches emerging include ‘flexible’, ‘open’,

‘distance’ and ‘off-campus’ that assist the ubiquity

of learning in a wide range of contexts (Lea &

Nicholl, 2002).

Growing acceptance of life-long and life-wide

learning.

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VisionVision

To inspire best practice in blended and flexible learning

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Flexible Learning...Flexible 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 Learning...Blended & Flexible Learning...

...is a design approach that examines

the relationships between flexible learning

opportunities (Keppell, 2010, p. 3).

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Curricular Landscape of Distance Learners

Curricular Landscape of Distance Learners

Contemporary curriculum needs to be designed

to account for a variety of perspectives so that

distance learners can engage as successful

learners.

Designing curriculum through multiple

perspectives ensures that the different

circumstances of the distance learner are

considered in a thoughtful and considered way.

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PerspectivesPerspectivesPerspectivesPerspectives

Multi-literaciesMulti-literacies

ICTICT

InteractionsInteractions

Multi-literaciesMulti-literacies

ICTICT

InteractionsInteractions

Learning spacesLearning spaces

PedagogyPedagogy

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Physical Virtual

Formal Informal InformalFormal

Blended

Mobile Personal

OutdoorProfessional

Practice

Distributed Learning Spaces

Academic

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Pedagogy & Multi-literaciesPedagogy & Multi-literacies

Designing curricular from a

pedagogical perspective

directly influences the

student experience.

Designing curricular from a

multi-literacies perspective

embeds teacher and

student digital interactions

into the curriculum.

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Informal Virtual Learning Spaces

Formal Virtual Learning Spaces

ICTICT

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InteractionsInteractions

Information access (subject expectations)

Interactive learning (learner-to-content interactions)

Networked learning (learner-to-learner, learner-to-

teacher interactions)

User-generated content (learners-as-designers,

assessment-as-learning) (Herrington & Oliver,

2001).

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Inspiring Best Practice in

Blended and Flexible Learning

Process

PrinciplesPerspectives

Strategy DevelopmentAspirational Framework

Resources

Delicious linksSlideshare

PresentationsTwitter News

Inspiration

Exploring Good Practice DVD

BFL BlogCase Studies

Support

Course Symposiums

FLI Fellowships

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Aim: To support Course teams in

Multiple Ways using formal and

informal Strategies

Aim: To support Course teams in

Multiple Ways using formal and

informal Strategies

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Teaching Fellowship SchemeTeaching Fellowship Scheme

Funded by DVC (Academic)

Development of potential leaders through distributive leadership

Facilitate collaborative professional relationships.

Proactively redesign courses and subjects

Promote and facilitate CSU Interact as a pivotal teaching and learning hub.

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Teaching Fellowship SchemeTeaching Fellowship Scheme

Participation of all twenty-four schools at the University

2008 – 6 fellows, 2009 – 5 fellows, 2010 – 5 fellows, 2011 – 6 fellows, 2012 – 3 fellows

The fellowship scheme provides a .5 release from regular teaching duties over a 12 month period.

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Transformative LearningTransformative Learning

An enhanced understanding of pedagogy and of their own pedagogical approach.

An increased capacity and willingness to reflect upon their own practice

A willingness to think critically about received ideas and conventional approaches

Readiness to innovate to accept technological change and to build effective pedagogic connections between face-to-face and online teaching strategies

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Transformative LearningTransformative Learning

Renewed confidence with regard to leading and adopting change and innovation among their peers and within their own schools.

Being empowered to negotiate perceived technological and institutional barriers to change.

Preparedness to maximise the time/space opportunity of the fellowship to actively engage in meaningful and relevant activities for their individual context.

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Transformative LearningTransformative Learning

Keppell, M.J., O’Dwyer, C., Lyon, B., & Childs, M. (2010). Transforming distance education curricula through distributive leadership. ALT-J, 18:3, 165-178.

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Disruptive InnovationsDisruptive Innovations

Interrupt our usual policies, practices, assumptions.

Disruptive innovations are technological innovations, products, services, processes, or concepts that disrupt the status quo (Meyer, 2012; Christensen, 2008).

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Course Symposium GrantsCourse Symposium Grants

• The FLI introduced Course team Symposium Grants.

• In support of this strategy the FLI Developed a set of principles for good practice in blended and flexible learning,

• ‘5 perspectives’ framework to assist course teams.

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Fostering of Scholarly LeadersFostering of Scholarly Leaders

• FLI Teaching Fellows have been fostered and supported to become future learning leaders at CSU.

• Many have assumed formal leadership roles at CSU.

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FLI Website: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/flexible-learning/FLI Blog: http://blendedandflexiblelearning.blogspot.com/FLI Twitter: http:// twitter.com/#%21/FLINewsFLI Delcious: http://www.delicious.com/flexiblelearninginstituteFLI Design: http://blendedandflexiblelearning.wikispaces.com/homeFLI YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FLIMediaMike’s Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/mkeppellMike’s Blog: http://mike-keppell.blogspot.com/