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?
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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"
• 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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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"
http://flickr.com/photos/dramaqueennorma/191063346/
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
Informationtechnology
Internationalstudents
Draw on experts on
Informationtechnology
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
Reuse, re-design and mainstream
Quick Wins
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"
• 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: 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)
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• 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
Reuse, re-design and mainstream
Before After
Before
After
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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
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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 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
accountability• Cooperative
relationships
• Shared decision making
• Initiative
Information age(Reigeluth, 1999)
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• 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
http://webfuse.cqu.edu.au/Courses/EDED11448/
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.
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