7:00 Workshop B: Assessing Blended Delivery Outcomes: Current Vs. Aspirational with Julie Collareda

9.00 Opening Remarks for the Chairman

Mike Keppell
Director, the Flexible Learning Institute
CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

9.10 Keynote Case Study: A Focus on the International Student

In this case study, you will be able to get an insider’s look at how to successfully build a business case for implementing a blended learning model for international students. Delivering and exemplary online learning environment is going be imperative for driving student uptake, especially in the international market. In this presentation, Professor Kent Anderson will share his extensive experience his work with Asia and how you can be successful in your educational facility, from getting stakeholder buy in, communicating with students and staff to roll out of the course.

Professor Kent Anderson
Pro Vice Chancellor (International)
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

9.50 Panel Session: Securing Buy in from Stakeholders

• What are Vice Chancellors and senior stakeholders looking for?
• How to communicate the benefits of a blended learning course
• Working with stakeholders to evolve Policy to enable earlier transitions into a blended learning format
• Who should be responsible for the governance of blended learning in our educational institutions?

11.10 Case Study: Engaging Teachers to Improve the Student Experience and Drive Student Outcome

The successful integration of a blended teaching model essentially comes down to the teachers. However, simply informing about the transition to online and mobile based learning can be daunting and overwhelming, therefore, how can we ensure that our teachers know how to teach while utilising the systems on offer?

Julie Collareda
Manager of Innovation Learning
SOUTH WESTERN SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF TAFE

11.40 Creating Accessible Professional Development for Online Learning

In this presentation Simon will outline how ongoing professional development is essential to the successful utilisation of online learning courses. ‘Learning to Teach Online’ is a Creative Commons resource that has won major Australian and American awards. It was designed to help time poor academics in any discipline gain insight, understanding and confidence in developing their own online teaching practices. This presentation examines the design, global dissemination and impacts of the project, and outlines the implications these may have upon the future design of professional development for online education.

Simon McIntyre
Online Postgraduate Director
COFA ONLINE, UNSW

12.20 Panel Session: The Importance of Educating the Educators

• Putting in a support system to guide teaching staff through new learning models
• Ensuring all staff are bought into the drive for blended learning models
• Understanding that blended learning doesn’t work for all courses and communicating this to teachers

14.00 Round Table: Evaluating New Learning Environments

• What do students want and should we give it to them?
• Ensuring effective engagement and communication throughout the development and use of blended learning courses
• Challenges involved in understanding how effective the blended learning model is: too early to evaluate?

Mike Keppell
Director, the Flexible Learning Institute
CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

14.40 The Importance of Creating a Community Based Peer to Peer Learning Experience: The Student Perspective on Blended Learning

Janson is currently completing his Masters of Education degree at UTS. Janson will share with us how he is working within a blended learning model and how that is impacting on his experience as a student and how he sees it effecting his learning outcomes.

Janson Hews
Education Director
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM

15.50 Blended Synchronicity: Uniting Remote and Distributed Learners Using Rich-Media Real-Time Collaboration Tools

This presentation will identify, characterise, and evaluate technology-enhanced ways of bringing together on-campus and geographically dispersed students and engaging them in media-rich synchronous collaborative learning experiences. Matt will be giving on site demonstrations of tools and pedagogies, where delegates will be able to participate in real time.

Dr Matt Bower
Senior Lecturer in Information and Communication Technology
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

16.30 Panel Session: Predicting Future Trends in Education: Traditional, Online, Blended—What next?

In this closing Panel session our speakers will assess the topics that have been addressed over the past two days and express their thoughts and ideas on what is next for the educational experience. Delegates will also be invited to share their opinions and look for ways to improve the student experience in the decades to come.

17.10 Closing Remarks from the Chairman

Workshop C: Technology and Pedagogy – Matching the Tools to the Task with Rory OBrien