quality enhancement in teaching and learning strategy

Quality Enhancement

in Teaching and Learning Strategy

Associate Professor Mark Brown

Director, Teaching, Learning and Distance Education

Tertiary Education Summit

29th November 2011

Quality Enhancement in Teaching and Learning Strategy

Quality Assurance

or

Quality Enhancement?

Quality Enhancement in Teaching and Learning Strategy

Quality Enhancement in Teaching and Learning Strategy

QA QE

Quality Enhancement in Teaching and Learning Strategy

QA QE

Teaching Evaluations

Academic Development

Grants & Awards

Academic Fellows

Learning Design Tools

Peer Review

Key questions…

1. What do we mean by quality in learning and

teaching?

2. How do we design for quality learning

experiences?

3. What are the implications for institutions and

educators?

Quality Enhancement in Teaching and Learning Strategy

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

• Three stories…

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A personal quality…

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

All the same or

unique, creative and distinctive?

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

An institutional quality…

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

Teachers Matter!

LMS VLE

“To provide an exceptional and distinctive experience for

all students through a rich digital learning culture.”

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

Wanted to avoid the dominant ‘pump,

pump, dump model’ of online (blended)

learning…

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

institution individual

clear standards creative flair

externally imposed requirements internally owned commitments

central quality police local professional responsibility

quality compliance quality culture

Key Tensions…

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

• Value laden

• Contestable

• Context bound

• Discipline specific

• A moving target

• But quality does exist

Definitions of quality are…

1. What Do We Mean by Quality in Teaching and Learning?

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

Teaching

Evaluation Data

Course Planning & Development Tools

Guidelines for Effective Practice

Accessibility

Guidelines

Course

Self-review ChecklistDesigns for

Learning

Resources forLearning

FacilitatingLearning

Assessment forLearning

EvaluatingTeaching

ProfessionalLearning

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

Quality Enhancement Framework…

ScholarlyPeer

Review

Effective PracticeGuidelines

AcademicDevelopment

Learning

Analytics

Scholarship of

Teaching and Learning

Grantsand Awards

Designs forLearning

Resources forLearning

FacilitatingLearning

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

Quality Enhancement Framework…

Assessment forLearning

EvaluatingTeaching

ProfessionalLearning

Learning

Design Tools

• Why peer review

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

• Why peer review

• Principles of peer review

- owned by academics

- focus on paper design

- emphasis on formative feedback

- promote pedagogical conversations

- confidential to participants

- must have institutional alignment

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

http://peerreview.massey.ac.nz

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

Peer Review Framework

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

… an all encompassing term to cover the process, representation, sharing and evaluation of designs from

lower level activities right up to whole curriculum level designs.

Learning design is…

- macro designs- meso designs- micro designs

(Conole, 2010).

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

‘A key principle of learning design is to help

make the design process more explicit and shareable’

(Conole, 2010, p.482).

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

‘There is a gap between the potential of

technologies for learning and their actual use in practice’

(Conole, 2010, p.483).

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

‘Teachers lack the necessary skills to make

informed judgements about how to use

technologies and are bewildered by the possibilities’

(Conole, 2010, p.483).

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

http://compendiumld.open.ac.uk

http://www.phoebe.ox.ac.uk/

Emergence of design tools…

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

Learning Design Supporthttps://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/ldse/Home

Conversational framework…

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

2. Where is eLearning heading?

Masterman, E., & Manton, M. (2011). Teachers’ perspectives on digital tools for pedagogic planning and design. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 20 (2), 227-246.

Calculating the costs of pedagogy…

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

2. Where is eLearning heading?

Student Workload Calculatorhttp://www.massey.ac.nz/~arowatt/Mockup01.html

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

2. How Do You Design for Quality Learning Experiences?

• Consolidating data

• Sharing the evidence

• Implementing action plans

3. What are the Implications for Institutions and Educators?

• Promoting a high level of professional trust

• Giving responsibility for quality back to academics

• Building distributed leadership for teaching and

learning

Quality enhancement is about…

3. What are the Implications for Institutions and Educators?

“Not everything that can be counted counts, not

everything that counts can be counted”

Albert Einstein

Final Comment

http://tinyurl.com/solt-mbrown

Further Comments

• Walk the talk

• Digital scholarship

• Knowledge harvesting and

brokering

• Scratch pad for critical

thinking and reflection

• Wider impact with a

worldwide audience

Why I blog…

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

Francis Bacon

Questions

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