what is cddu doing?

Teaching is not rocket science. It is, in fact, far more complex and

demanding work than rocket science.

-- Richard F. Elmore, Gregory Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership

Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Glass half empty

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It's not how bad you start,It's how quickly you get better

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Ask the students

Anonymous discussion forum• 463 T2, 2007 FLEX students• 700+ comments

Online and print learning materials• What did you like or find useful?• What caused you problems?• What would you like to see?


What would the top responses be?

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Overview

• Why?• Who?• What?

1. Collaborative Curriculum Design & Development (C2D2)

2. Quick wins3. Research and innovation

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Recommendation #8Encourage a more collegialapproach to curriculumdevelopment, which will bothstimulate and incorporatescholarship and research andphilosophical discussions aboutquality education

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C2D2

Research &Innovation

Quick wins

The incumbent will work…in extending the teaching and learning skills and focus of academic staff, and University management andfaculty executive in the development of CQU as a leader in flexible and on line education across a distributed campus network.

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Head, E-Learning & Materials Development

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Improve perceptions - students and staff

Improve quality andavailability of courses

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Reduce costs

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Reduce hidden costs

Maximise ROI

Who?

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Who are CDDU?

2 copy editors9 desktop publishers1 multimedia designer2 e-learning support staff2 and a bit curriculum designers

0 evaluation resources

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What?

C2D2

Research &Innovation

Quick wins

• Standardization• Bureaucratic organisation• Centralised control• Adversarial relationships• Autocratic decision

making• Compliance

• Conformity• One-way communications• Compartmentalisation• Parts oriented• Planned obsolescence• CEO or boss as "king"

• Customisation• Team-based organisation• Autonomy with

accountability• Cooperative

relationships• Shared decision making• Initiative• Diversity• Networking• Holism• Process oriented• Total quality• Customer as "king"

Industrial age Information age(Reigeluth, 1999)

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• Standardization• Bureaucratic organisation• Centralised control• Adversarial relationships• Autocratic decision

making• Compliance

• Conformity• One-way communications• Compartmentalisation• Parts oriented• Planned obsolescence• CEO or boss as "king"



relationships• Shared decision making• Initiative• Diversity• Networking• Holism• Process oriented• Total quality• Customer as "king"

Industrial age Information age


Consistency?

• Standardisation• Bureaucratic organisation

• Centralised control• Adversarial relationships• Autocratic decision making

• Compliance• Conformity• One-way communications• Compartmentalisation• Parts oriented• Planned obsolescence• CEO or boss as "king"

• Customisation• Team-based organisation

• Autonomy with accountability

• Cooperative relationships• Shared decision making• Initiative

• Diversity• Networking• Holism• Process oriented• Total quality• Customer as "king"


Industrial age Information age

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Analysis

Design

Development

I mplementation

Evaluation

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Curriculumdesigner

Academic& courses

2.x 1089

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Scaleable

Teach to fish

Diversity and collaboration

Target courses

Reuse, re-design and mainstream

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Need to target groups of courses

Which should we target?• Largest courses?• New courses?• Big "CEQ" courses?

Faculties

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Can't provide fish

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Need to teach folk to fish

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Diversity and collaboration

A collectionof academicsfrom differentdisciplines

Representing either courses or programs

Are assistedby CDDU

Draw on experts on

Informationtechnology

Draw on experts on


Internationalstudents

Draw on experts on


Internationalstudents

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Diversity

Business innovation often results from the breakthroughs of "cross-functional teams"

(Weld and Trainer, 2007)

This suggests that theremay be considerable room for exploring ways of using the preferred methods identified in one Field of Education in another field

(Scott, 2005)

Resources& knowledgefor future use

Changes insystems &processes


Quick Wins

Industrial age Information age(Reigeluth, 1999)


• Standardization• Bureaucratic organisation• Centralised control• Adversarial relationships• Autocratic decision making• Compliance• Conformity• One-way communications

• Compartmentalisation

• Parts oriented• Planned obsolescence• CEO or boss as "king"


accountability• Cooperative relationships• Shared decision making• Initiative• Diversity• Networking

• Holism• Process oriented• Total quality• Customer as "king"

Industrial age: Compartmentalisation

PCK(Schulman, 1987)

http://tpck.org/TPCK (Mishra and Koehler, 2006)

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Constructive alignment

OutcomesMaterialsActivities

Assessment

(Biggs, 2006)

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Educational determinism

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Responsive

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Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond . . . the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy-- Lord John Brown (Group CEO of BP)

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There will always be constraints

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Differences of opinion will occur

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But we can work it out

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If we keep talking

Information age(Reigeluth, 1999)


• Diversity• Networking• Holism• Process oriented• Total quality• Customer as "king"

• Customisation

• Team-based organisation

• Autonomy with accountability

• Cooperative relationships

• Shared decision making

• Initiative

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Quick wins

Print learning guides

E-learning

Ask the students

(Snowden & Boone, 2007; Jones & Gregor, 2006;Seely-Brown & Hagel, 2005)

PushPush PullPullDemand anticipated Demand uncertain

Top-down design Emergent design

Centralised control Decentralised control

Procedural Modular

Tightly coupled Loosely coupled

Resource centric People centric

Restricted participation Open participation

Focus on efficiency Focus on innovation

Few major re-engineering efforts Rapid, incremental innovation

Zero-sum rewards Positive-sum rewards

(Seely Brown & Hagel, 2005)(Seely Brown & Hagel, 2005)

Next frontier of innovation

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Print learning guides


Before After

Before

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Next step

Learning guide trial

• 21 AHE & 1 FBI course• Testing new process and tools• Scalability, efficiency, outcome• Online and print from one process

• Can we do this?• Should we do this?

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E-learning

Improving time on task

Teach to fish Innovation

Improving quality

Major opportunity for CQU


Ask the students

Anonymous discussion forum• 463 T2, 2007 FLEX students• 700+ comments

Online and print learning materials• What did you like or find useful?• What caused you problems?• What would you like to see?

What was yourpick for top responses?

Comment Mentions

Online lectures (audio/video)

106

Response from staff 86

Clarity & consistency 66

Study guides 55

Assignment feedback 53

Print 33

Discussion boards 30

OASM 27

Exams released 25

Everything ready 21

Potential ideas

• Integrated, automated online lectures

• Reduce assignment turnaround time

• Improvements in discussion boards

• Return exams• Increase use of print

• Lead-time indicators• Increased evaluation• Improved appearance

and automation of Blackboard

• Decrease lead times for print material

• …….

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Research &InnovationWeb3D

PLEs and Web 2.0

Design research and theory

2007 outcomes:• ~$700K funding• 2 journal papers• 2 conference papers

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Web3D

Carrick grant with USQ - ~$220K

Help 5-10 courses adopt immersive 3D

Learn lessons

(Knowles, 1978; Candy 1991)

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If institutions were to genuinelypromote lifelong learning opportunities,systems that support learner autonomyand self-regulation are essential.

Personal Learning Environments

(Lubensky, 2006)

a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure andmanipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences.

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• Getting organised• 2008 Exploration and initial implementation• 2009 Mainstreaming

Process

DEST Funding: $500K

PLE Symposium @ Lifelong learning conference

• Customisation• Team-based

organisation• Autonomy with


relationships

• Shared decision making

• Initiative

Information age(Reigeluth, 1999)


• Diversity• Networking• Holism• Process oriented• Total quality

• Customer as "king"

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Web 2.0 - the technical driver

Web 2.0 course sites

Web 2.0 organisational sites

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Web 2.0 course sites

http://cddu.cqu.edu.au

Web 2.0 org site• Wiki• Blogs• Social bookmarking• Google video, YouTube, slideshare…

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Questions

Biggs, J. (1996). "Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment." Higher Education. 32(3): 347-364

Booth, A. (2007). "In search of the information literacy training 'half-life'". Health Information and Libraries Journal. 24(2): 145-149

Candy, P. (1991). Self-direction for lifelong learning: A comphrensive guide to theory and practice, Jossey Bass.

Gregor, S. and D. Jones (2007). "The anatomy of a design theory." Journal of the Association for Information Systems 8(5): 312-335

Jones, D. and S. Gregor (2006). The formulation of an Information Systems Design Theory for E-Learning. 1st International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, Claremont, CA.

Knowles, M. S. (1978). The adult learner: A neglected species. Houston, Gulf Publishing.

Mishra, P. and M. Koehler (2006). "Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge." Teachers College Record 108(6): 1017-1054

Norman, D. (1998). The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products can Fail, the Personal Computer is so Complex, and Information Appliances are the Solution, The MIT Press.

Reigeluth, C. M. (1999). What is instructional-design theory and how is it changing? Instructional-design theories and models: A new paradigm of instructional theory. C. Reigeluth (ed). Mahwah, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Schulman, L. S. (1987). Knowledge and teaching: foundations for a new reform. Harvard Educational Review, 57(1):1-22

Scott, G. (2005). Accessing the student voice: Using CEQuery to identify what retains students and promotes engagement in productive learning in Australian higher education, DEST.

Seely-Brown J. and J. Hagel (2005). "From push to pull: The next frontier of innovation." The McKinsey Quarterly

Snowden, D. and M. Boone (2007). "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making". Harvard Business Review

Weld, J. and J. Trainer (2007). "A faculty interdisciplinary institute as liberator from stifling disciplinary mythology." College Teaching 55(4): 157-163.