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Efficiency and Enhancement in Blended Learning: A Workshop Overview

Explore the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching practices in higher education through a virtual workshop. Discover strategies for enhancing student learning experiences and making the best use of resources. Dive into current working plans, future goals, and key messages from related literature. Evaluate the impact of blended learning models, online delivery, assessment methods, and student engagement on teaching quality. Share ideas, questions, and best practices in this educational transformation journey.

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Efficiency and Enhancement in Blended Learning: A Workshop Overview

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  1. ‘More with less’Virtual workshop 26 May 2011 Alan Davidson Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen a.t.davidson@rgu.ac.uk

  2. Overview • Content • Introduction • Our approach • Current working and future plans • Discussion • Share references, ideas, questions

  3. My philosophical view • ‘Enhancement’ (informed by Ranald Macdonald) • Making it better • Making the best of ... opportunities and resources • Enhancing efficiency ... • best use of resources to promote effective student learning & experience • Enhancement is about change • Efficiency AND Effectiveness

  4. Change ‘E-factors’ • Efficiency • Employability • Students’ Expectations • Student Engagement • Equity & Diversity • E-Learning • Evaluation points

  5. What’s out there? • Lit. & web review (Summer 2010) • Lit. on costs of teaching delivery –limited • Changes associated with technology predominant • Primary references • BIGGS & TANG, GARRISON & VAUGHAN, GIBBS, HEFCE, HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY, JISC, LAURILLARD, OBSERVATORY ..., TWIGG

  6. Key messages from the lit. • Effective teaching & learning –focus on what the student does ... • Re-design for Blended Learning can benefit both efficiency and effectiveness • Factors ... efficiency of on-line delivery • Management of content • Management of on-line / tutor time • Focus on large cohorts

  7. Our approach thro’ 2010-11 • Developed thro’ dialogues • 3 strands of focus • Efficiency of WHAT we teach • Efficiency AND Effectiveness of HOW we teach and assess • Efficiency of OTHER STUFF

  8. Ways of working 2010-11 • Embedded in normal working and budgeting • No special initiatives to buy-out time • Embedding in Annual Planning and review • Enhancement Academy project • Enhancing Blended Learning (ENABLE) • External workshops + critical friend • 7 course-team level projects over two years • Workload allocation model being developed

  9. What’s going on • Portfolio reduction • Blended models • Changing / reduction / removal of lectures • Online delivery • Content outsourcing • Assessment • Reduction, in-class, group assessment • Voice techs. for feedback • Practicals / Labs / Studios • Placement supervision and support

  10. Evaluation • Finding out and sharing • What’s going on, what’s working well • Evaluation • Students’ views, performance, achievement • Staff observations • External Examiners’ comments • Metrics • Limited baseline info

  11. What next • Planning development projects for 2011-12 • Build on current approaches • Course teams • Include internalised ‘Enhancement Academy’ type working • More use of Learning Designs

  12. REFERENCES • BIGGS, J. and TANG, C., 2007. Teaching for Quality Learning at University. Third ed. Maidenhead: SRHE and Open University Press. • GARRISON, D.R. and VAUGHAN, N.D., 2008. Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles, and Guidelines. San Francisco: Josey-Bass. • GIBBS, G., 1981. Twenty terrible reasons for lecturing. [online] Available from: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/2_learntch/20reasons.html [Accessed 08/28 2010] • HEFCE., 2003. The costs of alternative modes of delivery. A study for HEFCE by JM Consulting Ltd. Bristol: HEFCE. • HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY, 2008. Pathfinder report: Raising awareness of the costs of e-learning... [online] Higher Education Academy. Available from: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/learningandtech/completed/pathfinder/Briefing_Papers/EHU_Reading_CostingBriefingPaper_V2_EdgeHill.pdf [Accessed 08/28 2010] • JISC. 2006 Tangible benefits of e-learning. [online] Available from: http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/case-studies/tangible • LAURILLARD, D., 2007. Modeling benefits-oriented costs for technology enhanced learning. Higher Education, 54, pp. 21-39 • OBSERVATORY ON BORDERLESS HIGHER EDUCATION, 2003. Redesigning Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Using ICT: Balancing Quality, Access and Cost. OBHE. • TWIGG, C.A., 2003. Improving learning and reducing costs: New models for online learning. Educause, (September/October), pp. 28-38

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