EvolveQuality Teaching & Engaging Learning

School of Law and Business

Evolve is a set of processes designed to embody best practice in online

teaching and learning

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Sound pedagogical approaches +

Empowering online technologies=

Student-centered learning environment

A Student Centered Learning Process

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Why Student-centered?

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• Students as customers want a course with a world class reputation.

• The Evolve process aims to exceed the students expectations of an online course.

What does the student (customer ) expect?

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• Work relevant skills.• Flexibility in how, when and where

learning takes place.• Challenging & supported learning.• Accessible & quality learning materials.

• The Student-centered approach!

What is a Student-centered approach?

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• Focuses on the students needs, emphasizes the student taking an active role in the learning process.

• The Teacher-centric approach focuses on the delivery of content.

Students - active, responsible participants in their own learning?

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• Students become active learners. • Lecturers become facilitators of

learning through interaction and discussion.

• Simple transparent course design and useful materials.

• Work relevant tasks and activities.• Self-paced, Self-directed and

Independent learning.• Interactive learning session.• Continuous and regular feedback.• Fair transparent assessment.

A Student Centered Learning Process

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• Acquisition of knowledge and skills applicable to the real world.

• Materials, tasks, examples and assessments directly relate to the real-world.

Work-relevant

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• Students are given a choice of when, where and how they learn.• Self-paced: All materials and tasks are made

available from the start of semester. • Self-directed: Student are presented with a

variety of presentation formats and activity types.

• Independent Learning: The onus is on the student to work through presentations and tasks.

Self-paced, Self-directed and Independent learning

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• Online technologies use a mix of:• Online materials and tests, • Synchronous Wimba sessions, • Collaborative activities, and• Task requiring the use of the Discussion

board or Emails communications.

• Small groups give everyone the opportunity to develop important interpersonal and communication skills.

Interactive Learning Sessions

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Continuous Assessment and Regular Feedback

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• Regular feedback and guidance for both assessed and un-assessed task.

• Helps give students confidents while allowing them to tracks their progress through the topic.

Fair Transparent Assessment

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• At the start of the semester:• Types of assessment• Due dates• Assessment criteria

• Rubrics are used to guide the student and ensure a fair and common marking scheme .

Continue with the Demonstration

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School of Law and Business

Following Slides

• Visit details and LearnLine site discussion points

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Visit Timetable

9.00 am – 9.20 am Maia to meet with Don, Ram, Darius and Sue (HOS office)9.30 am – 10.00 am Appointment Gary Davis – Don, Darius and Maia (Orange 12.3.46)10.00 am – 10.15 am Brief Campus tour – Don, Darius and Maia 10:15 am – 10:45 am Meeting with Monica (Monica’s office)10.45 am – 11.15 am Morning tea and meeting with Don, Ram, Sue and Darius (Moot Court)11.15 am – 12 noon Demonstration and discussion - Don, Darius and Maia (Moot Court)

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Sound pedagogical approaches +

Empowering online technologies=

Student-centered learning environment

A Student Centered Learning Process

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LearnLine Unit Site

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• Same standard structure • Allows consistent high quality

product• Structure refined over a number

years

Dashboard Area

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• Manage their day-to-day learning tasks & Communication channel to the whole class.• My Announcements – displays any

important announcements from the teach• My Calendar – displays the semesters

critical dates and any events the teacher wishes to draw to the student’s attention

• My Task – allows the student to track and manage unit critical tasks

Teaching Staff

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• Large disconnect between the online student and teacher.

• Initiate relationship with the teaching staff with a human face to the teacher.

• Video introduction from teaching staff.• Humanises and personalises a

daunting, lonely and disconnected experience.

Unit Information

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• Clearly outlines the Unit.• Primary device being the Unit Outline. • The Learning outcomes• What is expected from the student• All assessments and their requirements• Gives a calendar of all learning activities

Learning Area

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• Key Student area.• Resource based model.• Lists all learning session with outcomes .• Standardised layout allows • consistent delivery• High quality

Sessions

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• Clear easy to under standard instructions.

• Content presented as:• Readable text - PDF• Audio – MP3• Interactive Multimedia Presentation

Activities

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• True/false, Multiple choice, Short answer tests

• Case studies• Group discussion on discussion• Write a Blogg• Create a wiki in a group• Write a journal• Analyse/summarise/comment on a video

Assessment Area

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Assessment drives learning by:• Clearly describing how the

assessment fits into the units learning outcomes.

• Giving students access to anything they will need to complete any assessment.

Assessment Area

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It does this by:• List Learning outcomes• Describes the Type of assessment timing• Gives access to the Assessment• Supplies an assessment Rubric that • Ensures a transparent and consistent

assessment process• describes the criteria used for each assessment • This helps the student maximise their result by

targeting the assessment criteria• Fair consistent marking across all students

• Assessment submission point

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• ‘cutting edge’• ‘state of the art’• interactive• online learning environment

that is underpinned by• Best practice• Quality professional staff and • A college of adjuncts who are leaders

in their fields

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