top tips and techniques for getting started (or expanding) your flexible training options
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Top tips and techniques for getting started (or expanding) your flexible
training options
28 January 2015
CY O’Connor Institute
Allison Miller
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Workshop Overview
• How is VET changing?
• Are all flexible training options the same
• Best practice flexible learning design principles
• Where to from here?
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How is VET changing?
How is VET changing?
• Competitive/Demand driven funding models
• Industry-driven – meeting skills needs over social needs
• More accountability
• Downsizing of workforce
• Less student support services
• Need for increased course completions
• Demand for flexible training options
• Others?
Internet is already a game changer
Source: Deloitte Access Economics Pty Ltd (2013) –http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_AU/au/services/financial-advisory/deloitte-access-economics/05660fd56ab1e310VgnVCM1000003256f70aRCRD.htm
Where do you sit on the Digital Superhighway Matrix?
You KNOW about
delivering training online
You DON’T KNOW about
delivering training online
You KNOW how to deliver
training online
DIGITAL NAVIGATOR
(Destination)DIGITAL BLINDSPOT
(Overtaken)
You KNOW DON’T how to
deliver training online
DIGITAL HITCHHIKER
(Transit)
DIGITAL ROADKILL
(Death)
Adapted from an e-business matrix originally developed by Allison Miller, Vanguard Visions, Ian Newton, TAFE NSW North Coast Institute and Wendy Perry, Workforce Blueprint
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VET is changing …
How does this impact you / your work?
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Are all flexible training options the same?
Are all flexible training options the same?
Individual Class Wider communityWorks on own Works with other learners Works with wider
community
what-is-elearning.wikispaces.com
E-training Blended Flipped
E-Training
Learning Management
System
• Individual Checklists
• Reports/Logs
• Grade book
E-Training
Learning Management
System
•Individual Checklists
•Reports/Logs
•Grade book
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CC-BY Image: by HackNY.org - Fall 2010 hackNY Student Hackath - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5686024942/
Blended
Learning Management System
•Individual Checklists
•Grade book
•Reports/Logs
•Forums etc
Eportfolio
•Personal learning space
•Tags
Webinar
•Group
•Recordings
Blended
Learning Management System
• Individual Checklists
• Grade book
Eportfolio
• Personal learning space
• Tags
Webinar• Group
• Recordings
CC-BY Image: by mklpper – Chinese Teacher http://www.flickr.com/photos/mklapper/5812224468/
CC-BY Image: by HackNY.org - Fall 2010 hackNY Student Hackath - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5686024942/
Flipped
Learning Management System
• Individual Checklists
• Grade book
Eportfolio
• Personal learning space
• Tags
Webinar• Group
• Recordings
Flipped
CC-BY Image: by mklpper – Chinese Teacher http://www.flickr.com/photos/mklapper/5812224468/
CC-BY Image: by HackNY.org - Fall 2010 hackNY Student Hackath - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5686024942/
Learning Management System
• Individual Checklists
• Grade book
Eportfolio
• Personal learning space
• Tags
Webinar• Group
• Recordings
CC-BY Image: Father and son fishing - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Father_and_son_fishing_little_boy_helps_his_father_to_fish.jpg
Moving to learning-centred methodologies
Learning-centred methodologies
Individual Learning Plans
Action/Project based learning
Problem seeking & solving learning (Design thinking)
Work-based/Situated learning
Service learning
Peer/Collective (Tribe/Gang) learning
Professional Learning Communities /PLNs (Circles)
Informal/Just-in-Time/Social/Self-organised learning
Scenario-based learning
Authorship / Story-telling learning
Others?
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There are many flexible training options …
How does this impact you / your work?
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Best practice flexible learning design principles
Learning Design
Learn about this process: blog.cathy-moore.com/2008/05/be-an-elearning-action-hero
Learning outcome (Element)
Encourage interaction
CC-By Image: Wikipedia – Google Docs http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs
CC-By Image: by Vanguard Visions “Practice NBN Digi-forum” https://www.flickr.com/photos/77018488@N03/9318070406
It’s not all about the content but …
CC-By Image: by Creative Commons “Open Textbooks” - http://creativecommons.org/tag/open-textbooks
It’s not all about the content but …
Use your existing contentCC-By Image: by Wikimedia – “Book lover” http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_lover.jpg
It’s not all about the content but …
Record yourself … what you’re already doingCC-By Image: by Wikipedia “Go Pro” http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoPro
CC-By Image: by Wikimedia Commons “Flip camera display” http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flip_camera_display.jpg
It’s not all about the content but …
Use other people’s content
YouTube
National VET Content Repository
Wikipedia, Wiki-how-to
Creative Commons
Slideshare
And much, much more…
It’s not all about the content but …
Use the students’ content
Screen shot: Pete Aspinall - Occupational Hygiene - LEGO style - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2MXDcNpLvE
Give them what they need
CC-By Video by FrostKnivEz “GTA V: Robbing A Gas Station Store” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HmrTsiKzgA
What will they need to know/do when they need it?
Chunk and change
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Be explicit, be visual and avoid the scroll of death
Make your assessment cheat proof
Best way to reduce cheating = increase student motivationie WIIFM (what’s in it for me [them]?) (Lang 2013 via Morris, 2014)
Motivation strategy How flexible training supports this
Get to know your students• Add photos of them self• Update their profile • Introductory posts (and ice breakers)
Applied/real assessment tasks
• Individual learning (and assessment) plans • Eportfolio of evidence (incorporating images, audio,
video, written work etc)• Showcase their work online (and get feedback)
Peer activities• Work together through forums and Google Drive (Docs)• Choreograph websites and online groups• Group problem solving Projects / Assessments
Self-assessment • Write a learning journal
Start with a new cohort
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They don’t know how it was done before
It’s not that easy
Finding the time?
• Work as a team / divide up the work
• Start when something needs updating
What to learn?
• Be an online learner yourself
• Join E-learning Conversations LinkedIn Group
Where to start?
• Take baby steps and trial something small
• Take the lead of others and build on it
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Designing flexible training effectively is important …
How does this impact you / your work?
Where to from here?
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