Presentation from Yuen Yuen Yip, Manager Project Planning Services

1. Blended Learning in UWS

2. Overview
• Drivers for change
• Curriculum redesign
• Technology
• Space design
• Projects

3. “The higher education sector is undergoing a
fundamental transformation in terms of its
role in society, mode of operation, and
economic structure and value”
Source: Ernst & Young “University of the Future” 2012

4. Blended learning
is a driver of
change for the
universities of the
future
Source: Ernst & Young “University of the Future” 2012

5. Blended learning at UWS refers to a strategic
and systematic approach to combining times
and modes of learning, integrating the best
aspects of face-to-face and online interactions
for each discipline, using appropriate ICTs.

6. Drivers
• UWS responding to the needs of:
– Students who work as well as study
– Students who have children
– Mature age students
– Students who have to travel between campuses
– School leavers
– Students who are time poor

7. What does blended learning
look like?
Intensive on-campus learning
Online lectures & Site-based
on-campus learning
seminars
Creating and
Access to learning sharing content
anytime
Use UWS
Group assignments & technologies
online peer review of with my own
work
Flexible Social Study
for me networks groups

8. The student experience
• Offers on campus experience
• Progressively prepares students for more blended
learning
• Is discipline context specific
• Provides different avenues for interaction
• Offers fully off-campus as an option

9. Transforming learning
• Content curation
• Collaboration
• Engagement
• Facilitation
• Learning supports
• Inspiration
• Motivation
• Flexibility

10. Blending it all
• Benefits of blended learning occur at the individual,
social, activity, unit, course and university levels
• Paradigms of blended learning include enabling,
enhancing, supporting and transforming
• Designing optimal learning spaces, virtual and
physical, will be a key success factor for blended
learning

11. Curriculum and teaching
• Teaching Development Unit
PVC
Education
TDU
school school school school school school school school school

12. Curriculum and teaching
• Creating options and opportunities in the
curriculum for:
– Face to face lectures / tutorials
– On-line / flexible delivery
– Interactive on-line delivery

13. Technologies
• Wireless integration of BYOD with AV systems
• Wireless integration of BYOD with central
software systems
• Echo360 to support lecture capture
• vUWS – on-line teaching tool

14. Diversity of learning spaces
Physical Blended Virtual
Formal Informal Formal Informal
Mobile Personal
Outdoor

15. Teaching spaces
• Flexible and adaptable spaces for collaborative
learning
• Mobile furniture
• Wireless technology
• Multiple AV projection screens
• Charging stations for electronic devices
• Writing surfaces on 4 walls

16. Learning commons
• Connected hot spots on the campus with the
McDonald’s phenomenon
• Consistent in space, look and feel
• Meeting places / market places
• Large spaces with synergies with the library
• Hybrid of formal and informal spaces
• Flexible and adaptable learning spaces
• Spaces for students and teachers

17. Hot spots
• Connected by unifying principles that is
recognisable through:
– Function
– Technology provided
– Signage & graphics

18. Approval process
• Teaching spaces • Learning commons
– PVC (Education) Sign-off – Executive
– Reference Group – Steering Committee
• TDU, ITS, CWF, Library • PVC(Students),
– Stakeholder Group PVC(Education, Dir-ITS, Dir-
CWF, Library
• TDU, ITS, CWF, Schools,
Timetabling, Exams – Reference Group
• Blended Learning
consultant, CWF, ITS,
Library, TDU, Student
Services, MESH
– Stakeholder Group
• Student reps, Library, TDU,
ITS, Student Services,
Disability

19. Collaboration
• Students
• eLearning Team
• Academic Staff
• CW&F
• IT Services
• Library

20. The past

21. Looking forward
Teaching Spaces

26. Looking forward
Learning Commons

35. Projects
• Teaching spaces
– Campbelltown building 10
– Bankstown building 20
– Parramatta building EB
• Learning commons
– Parramatta building EFa Pavilion
– Bankstown building 1
– Hawkesbury building G1

36. Positive Deviance
“Somewhere in your
organisation, groups of
people are already doing
things differently and
better. To create lasting
change, find areas of
positive deviance and
fan their flames.”
- Pascale and Sterin (Harvard Business Review, 2010)