Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology

1. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology Professor Graham Webb Director: CHED

2. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology What is flexible learning? How will we know when we are doing it well? How are we doing?

3. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology What is flexible learning? word association . . . one or two words technology, information technology, web, cost-saving, replacing teachers, distance education, teleteaching, remote delivery etc

4. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology What is flexible learning? Still a legitimate question CHED Guide No 1: “What is Flexible Learning?”

5. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology silly to think we can ‘simply’ define it ‘learning’ is difficult enough . . . . . . . . . . . . massive, complex and contested area why has ‘flexible’ learning become an issue?

6. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology • response to the challenges of: massification (363 - 1961; 42k - 1998) diversity (100 countries; 17% HK, M, S; 25% > 30 years old) life-long learning skills (information explosion; shelf-life of knowledge)

7. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology • move from institution and teaching • to more student-centred learning • what is flexible learning: an umbrella term for increasing student access and choice . . . in . . .

8. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology entry and exit (enrolment, qualifications, RPL, articulation) programme and course structures (electives, streams, completion times) time of learning (start date, offerings per year, assessment periods, pace of learning)

9. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology place of learning (on/off campus mix, workplace, study abroad) learning: content (lectures, tuts, practs, labs, libraries, print based materials, multi-media materials, on-line materials . . . . choice, negotiated curriculum, self/group-direction)

10. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology learning: interactions student-teacher, student-student (email, conferencing (tele, desktop, video), fax, mail, study/syndicate groups and rooms, newsgroups, chatrooms, face-to-face individual, group, class)

11. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology assessment (time, choice, negotiation, self/group-direction) support (automated, personalised, equality of access)

12. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology flexible learning is not (simply): use of information / educational technology (teleteaching, web etc) distance education (from one-stop factory to decentralised production; deregulation; multiple production providers; short time-lines)

13. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology A cheap alternative to lecturing/ a way of reducing staff (but there are consequences for how we work) Again, flexible learning is the umbrella term for a direction of travel

14. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology How will we know when we are doing it well? Technology won’t tell us . . . . . . Retrogressive . . . . metaphors of teaching What do we know about good teaching?

15. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology 1 Provides appropriate learning experiences 2 Provides appropriate assessment 3 Encourages active learning 4 Encourages cooperation

16. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology 5 Provides prompt and helpful feedback 6 Respects diversity 7 Models scholarly values 8 Builds relationships

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18. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology • CUTSD . . . An Evaluation of Information Technology Projects for University Learning

19. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology • How are we doing as a University? • Still in the early stages, but we have come a long way since last year:

20. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology Monash Plan Learning and Teaching Operational Plan Strategic Innovations Fund University Teaching Development Grants? Faculty Teaching Development Grants

21. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology Commitment to new administrative systems Reconsideration of support systems Development of Faculty teams, production facilities Director of Information Technology, coherence and vision

22. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology Flexible Learning Development Unit (CHED) - ‘front-end’ educational planning and design - Flexible Learning Guides - Case Studies (Monash academics) - central, faculty and campus workshops - web resources and links - development counts towards Grad Cert HE

23. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology What do we still need to do? - develop a strategic plan for flexible learning; - pull together all the activity; - create enduring structures to plan, monitor, coordinate (eg FL environments, teleteaching, web development etc); - create more opportunities like this

24. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology opportunities to enjoy talking to each other . . . but, also go back and talk to your colleagues who are not here adopt a colleague

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27. Flexible Learning Teaching and Technology Professor Graham Webb Director: CHED