Learning, Teaching and Assessment@Swinburne
Professor Mike KeppellPro Vice-Chancellor, Learning
Transformations
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2015 Technology Outlook: Trends
Formal on-campusteachingspaces
Informalon-campus
learning spaces
Online learning and teaching
spacesBlended Learning
On-Campus Learning and Teaching at Swinburne
• The disintegration of the distinction and the growing acceptance that learning occurs in different ‘places’ presents both exciting and challenging opportunities for higher education.
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What is the University Campus?•Formal teaching spaces
• Informal learning spaces
•Online learning and teaching spaces
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Guiding Pedagogies
Guiding Pedagogies
• Authentic learning • Authentic assessment
• Personalised Learning
• Peer learning
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Authentic Learning• …require students to
complete complex real-world tasks over a period of time in collaboration with others as they would in a real setting or workplace (Herrington, 2006)
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Authentic Assessment• Empowering the learner by
engaging them in assessment tasks that simulate or engage the learner in real-life situations.
• “Engaging and worthy problems or questions of importance, in which students must use knowledge to fashion performances effectively and creatively” (Wiggins, 1993, p. 229).
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Personalised Learning• Learning pathways • ePortfolios
• The knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable learning and act as a catalyst to empower the learner to continue to learn (Keppell, 2015)
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Peer Learning• Students teaching and learning from each other.
• Sharing ideas, knowledge and experiences
• Emphasises interdependent as opposed to independent learning (Boud, 2001).
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2015 Technology Outlook: Challenges
Rethinking the Roles of Educators
Blended & Online
Learning Analytics
Personalised Learning
Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning
Open EducationOERsDigital literacies
Authentic Assessment
SpacesMobile
LTU MissionOur mission is to transform practice across the faculties and PAVE by inspiring, enabling and empowering teaching staff to develop capacity and capability in innovative teaching and learning.
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LEARNING TRANSFORMATIONS
PORTFOLIOS
Blended & Online Learning
Personalised Learning
and ePortfolios
Events, Seminars in the Digital Aquarium
Graduate Certificate of Learning and
Teaching
Scholarship of Learning and
Teaching
Learning Design Authentic Assessment
Learning Transformations
Conference
Open Education, Open TextbooksOERs, MOOCs
PAVE
GCLT and Swinburne• Staff new to teaching, current staff, staff returning to
teaching• Fully online and blended modes• Exemplary assessment practice • Exemplary pedagogical practices mirroring learning and
teaching strategy and integrating appropriate learning technologies
• Micro-units in assessment and online learning• Usage of OERs and open textbooks• Peer mentoring
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