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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