Online and Blended Learning:

Visions, Challenges & Opportunities

Professor Jeremy B Williams The Asia Pacific Management Centre

Griffith University

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16 July 2013

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Today’s date:

16 July 2016

A RETROSPECTIVE

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Early 2013:

Scepticism and denial

Disruptive Innovation

MOOCs … coming to a university near you

“The world of MOOCs is creating a competition that will force every professor to improve his or her pedagogy or face an online competitor … When outstanding becomes so easily available, average is over.”

Thomas L. Friedman

Mid-2013:

Economic reality bites

Alan Tudge, Federal Member for Aston and Chairman of the Coalition’s Online Higher Education Working Group

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“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you think they could”

Lawrence Summers

Late 2013:

A New Griffith

participatory

flexible

authentic

Multi-modal in format: catering to different learning styles and different life styles

Learner centric: student as consumer and producer of knowledge

Assessment of learning grounded in reality: outcome driven learning; learning that lasts beyond the test

NEW LEARNING MODEL

Onefully digitised

Curriculum

Oneset of

Learning

Outcomes

MultiplePedagogies

Student

Choice… lifestyle;

learning style

F2Fon

campus

F2Fwebinar

Online

asynchronous

delivery

Intensive

delivery

blogs

wikis

Streamed

Audio

Discussion

Forum

Streamed

Video

The New Griffith learning model gave a new impetus to international student recruitment:

Blended delivery offshore/ onshore reducing cost for prospective students

Innovative collaborations with overseas institutions; e.g. Pakistan

The One Curriculum-Multiple Pedagogies model avoided problems with ESOS regulations because an international student does not enrol in ‘distance and/or online learning’ mode

Early 2014:

The new workload model

Mainstream the

Under pressure from the NTEU because of potential job losses, Griffith University management agreed to a new work load formula

F2F on campus class time was reduced to 12 hours per semester in all courses where curriculum was digitised and a ‘flipped classroom’ was implemented

Admin systems were streamlined

‘Teaching preparation’ was redefined to include ‘content curation’

Academics time freed up for research and publication

Up-skilling for the new learning model required new work

practices

Librarian

BlendedLearningAdvisor

CurriculumConsultant

Research Assistant

Junior Faculty Adjunct

FacultyJunior Faculty

EducationalDesigner

Senior Faculty

Late 2014:

The emergence of the digitally literate academic

The new

tool kit

Instrinsic motivation

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/telic-the-essential-elements-of-digital- literacies

Griffith MBA App

Search iTunes Store for:

“Griffith MBA”

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21st century literacies …

Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology

Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought

Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

Manage, analyse, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts

Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments.

http://edudemic.com/2013/04/important-21st-century-skills/

Early 2015:

Breaking free

VLE PLE

2016:

Consolidation

In conclusion …

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