9.00 Opening Remarks for the Chairman

Mike Keppell
Director, the Flexible Learning Institute
CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

What is Blended Learning?

9.10 Keynote Address: Blended Learning in the Current Education Climate

In this opening Keynote Professor Margaret Mazzolini will set the theme for the next two days, by outlining the questions we all want answers to:

• What is blended learning?
• Why are we blending: flexibility, pedagogy, resources, engagement?
• Who are we blending for?
• How will we implement and support it?
• How will we know if it’s working?

Professor Margaret Mazzolini
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

9.50 Case Study: How Do We Address the Issue of Quality?

With more faculty members teaching in a blended learning mode, effective course design is critical to maintaining quality while incorporating both online, mobile and face to face technologies. In this presentation Mark will share the experience of Massy University of balancing the quality of learning with the student experience.

Mark Brown
Director, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
MASSEY UNIVERSITY

10.30 Panel Session: Comparative Analysis of Blended Learning over Traditional Teaching Methods

There is no one right way to deliver a blended learning model and in some cases it isn’t necessary to have a blended model at all. This panel session will look at the different formats on offer and examine some of the potential pitfalls in the use of new media

• Do specific students respond better to certain models
• Lecture capture: old wine in new bottles?
• Utilising new media to engage students

11.40 Blended Learning as Core Business in University

Addressing how educational technology, virtual learning environments, and blended and online learning are now core business for all Australian Universities

• Proposing that models of support for this enterprise must undergo a radical change in both resources and structure in order to meet the new demands of such services
• Suggesting a new, integrated model for the bringing-together of previously unrelated services

Professor Carol Miles
Director Centre of Learning & Teaching
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE

12.20 Panel Session: The Drivers for Moving Towards a Blended Learning Model

• Analysing changing student demographics
• Understanding what students want from a course and examining if giving them this which actually enable them to excel

14.00 Round Table: Examining Current Trends in Technology

• What Hardware and software solutions are educational Institutions using and why
• Success stories and Pitfalls, where have things gone right and what to do when they go wrong
• How are the beneficial uses of specific technologies being communicated to staff?
• Will technology enable us to teach better?

Mike Keppell
Director, the Flexible Learning Institute
CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

14.40 Understanding the Next generation of Students and How they Expect to Learn

New teaching methods at K-12 Level are instilling new learning behaviours in school aged children. In this presentation Cathie will address the current and future education models for children and how this will impact the way tertiary institutions should be approaching new methods for learning

• Examining the new methods and technologies available for educating children and their responses to this
• Overcoming the challenges or teaching the teachers how to learn
• Establishing a peer to peer learning platform for children to understand how to learn what they need to know

Cathie Howe
Professional Learning and Leadership Coordinator
Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre

Breaking down the Blended Learning Elements

15.20 Examining the Potential of Mobile Learning In and Out of the Classroom

• Mobile Device Trends and Their Implications For Mobile Learning at Higher Education Institutions
• Redesigning the classroom to create new generation learning spaces
• Readiness of teachers to implement mobile learning: Applying structural changes to the teaching course
• Understanding the technologies students already have access to and merging that into the course

16.30 The Role of the Learning Management System (LMS) in Blended Learning

• How does the LMS fit with other learning spaces?
• Managing an LMS
• Designing activities in the LMS
• The importance of the teacher in the use of the LMS

David Green
Director, Centre for Educational Technology
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY

17.10 Panel Session: Pedagogical and Design Aspects of a Blended Learning Course

• Is there a finite criteria for what constitutes a blended learning course?
• Who is the designer, and which stakeholders should be involved?

17.50 Closing Remarks for the Chairman