CO-DESIGNING THE MASTERS OF EDUCATION

TO OPTIMISE THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Professor Mike KeppellDirector, The Flexible Learning Institute

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OVERVIEW

Blended and flexible learning

Good practice guidelines

Place & mode

Interactions

Learning-oriented assessment

E-portfolio

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FLEXIBLE LEARNING

Flexible learning provides opportunities to improve the student learning experience through flexibility in time, pace, place (physical, virtual, on-campus, off-campus), mode of study (print-based, face-to-face, blended, online), teaching approach (collaborative, independent), forms of assessment and staffing. It may utilise a wide range of media, environments, learning spaces and technologies for learning and teaching.

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BLENDED AND FLEXIBLE LEARNING

“Blended and flexible learning” is a design approach that examines the relationships between flexible learning opportunities, in order to optimise student engagement and equivalence in learning outcomes regardless of mode of study.

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What sort of opportunities should we provide?

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PLACE AND MODE OF STUDY

Place (physical, virtual, on-campus, off-campus)

Mode of study (print-based, face-to-face, blended, online)

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INTEGRATION LEVELS

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Course

Subject Activity

Assessment Professional Practice

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Learning-oriented assessment

Assessment tasks as learning tasks

Student involvement in

assessment processes

Forward-looking feedback

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ONE OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGES IN HIGHER

EDUCATION IS TO DESIGN SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

THAT PERFORMS A FORMATIVE FUNCTION

(CARLESS, JOUGHIN, LIU, 2006, P.8)

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FORWARD-LOOKING FEEDBACK

Students need to receive appropriate feedback which they can use to ‘feed forward’ into future work.

Feedback should be less final and judgemental (Boud, 1995)

Feedback should be more interactive and forward-looking (Carless, 2002)

Feedback should be timely and with a potential to be acted upon (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)

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PROFESSIONALPORTFOLIO

Why a separate subject?

eportfolio throughout course

Capstone experience?

Suitable for all strands

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DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Design of exemplar - compulsory subject

Narrow or wide diversity of modes?

Strategic choreographing of interactions throughout course

Emphasis on interactive, networked, student-generated content

Learning-oriented assessment

eportfolio for capstone experience13

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Cooperation

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Balance

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Reaction to course

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