Mind the gap: modeling learning in a professional curriculum
Dr. Jo Smedley
Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) &
Alexandra Dobson Lecturer in Law
Changing learning and teaching styles
• Learners as participant with tutor as facilitator
• Teaching and learning accessible on an “anywhere, anytime, anyhow” basis.
• Student as a “customer” with a need to provide a consistently high quality student experience
• Earning and learning
• Evaluation with user groups to measure impact of learning through technology
• Multiple evaluating criteria included, reflecting the needs of higher education stakeholders.
The project
• Exploring innovative uses of modern technologies in learning and teaching enhancement
– Using technologies for assessment & feedback
– Podcasting .v. vodcasting
• Staff development
Feedback
• Did not access the information
Improvements
• It could have been longer • Connection speed • Very low production standards
Evaluating organisational learning through technology
• Bacsich (2005) focused on benchmarking in universities – Oriented to benchmarking administrative processes with
little directly about e-learning.
• UK national Benchmarking and Pathfinder programme between 2003-2008 provided UK Universities with a structured approach – Improve organizational approaches of learning using
technology and assist with its continued implementation.
• Involved five methodologies:- – ELTI (Embedding Learning Technologies Institutionally) – eMM (e-Learning Maturity Model) – MIT90s – OBHE/ACU – Pick and Mix
Using eMM
• Marshall and Mitchell (2005)
– Learning
– Development
– Support
– Evaluation
– Organization
• Organisational and individual perspectives
Modelling impact
• Organisational learning
• Individual learning
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Applying the model to a real-life case study: Law for Managers
• Four short-course/modules in employer facing flexible learning curriculum
– Law for Managers: Discrimination in the Workplace
– Law for Managers: Health and Safety/Corporate Manslaughter
– Law for Managers: Privacy in the Workplace
– Law for Managers: Business Characteristics
• Various blends of modern technologies
Evaluating impact from the learning
• Question categories for tutors and learners
– D: Aspects relating to delivery
– C : Aspects relating to content
– A : Aspects relating to assessment
– R : Aspects relating to resources
– Q: Quality of learning experience
Developing the modelling equations
• Impact
• Experience/expectation gaps
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Continuing developments
• Definition/categorisation of elements
• Optimisation of elements to maximise impact
• Weighting factors
Questions
Email: [email protected] & [email protected] http://wiki.newport.ac.uk/index.php?title=Jo_Smedley%27s_wiki
