1. Developing a new vision: The challenges of supporting effective classroom teachers to transform curriculum to the online environment
Cathryn McCormack Associate Professor Angela Carbone Dr Thi Kim Anh Dang

2. Me and this study Adult education PhD
How academics in Australian Higher Education learn effective teaching
Teaching and learning centre
Supervisors:
Associate Professor Angela Carbone
Dr Thi Kim Anh Dang
Monash University

3. Learning to teach Teach and Learning Centres Catch-up Teach as taught
Workshops, resources, programs
Transformative?
Teach as taught
Want students to learn
Teacher education?

4. Teaching context Changing students Tightening budgets Online teaching
Workload and time
“Liquid times” (Bauman, 2007)
Governance
Online teaching
Lortie (1975)
Fall back on “apprenticeship of observation
Persisting conservatism

5. Naturalistic, interpretivist ethnography - 1 year period
Institutional Data:
Policy documents, meeting observations, TLC information and programs, T&L program reports, interviews with learning influencers
Case Studies: 9 Academics
Health:
Hayley, Helen, Holly, Hugh
Sciences:
Sonia, Susan, Sarah, Steve, Stuart
School Data:
Interviews with Head of School and LL
Meeting observations – T&L meetings
School Board, T&L workshops and other meetings
School Data:
Interviews with Head of School and LL
Meeting observations –
T&L meetings,
School Board
Multiple interviews
Observation of teaching
Blackboard unit access
Documents, e.g. portfolio or philosophy of teaching

6. Analysis Grounded theory – Charmaz (2006) Initial findings
Emergent theme - teaching online

7. Participants
Committed to teaching
Good practice
Reflective

8. Three contexts for online teaching
Component of blended delivery
Holly – 400 nursing students in first year theoretical unit, 3 campuses
Campus and online students in parallel
Sonia – 200 environmental science students
Online only
Helen – Placement units for allied health

9. Blackboard as repository
Out of 9 participants:
All posted recorded lectures
Quizzes common
2 used the discussion board in a structured way
2 used active learning tools (wiki and journalling)
Future plans:
Rich media case studies
Better lecture recordings

10. Learning to teach online
Apprenticeship of observation
Observation of what?
Recent HE studies
Working with expert colleagues
Best practice grad cert/modules
Best practice MOOCs
Extensive classroom teaching

11. Creating a vision
Rich and vibrant online learning experiences for academics
Providing models of learning design
Facilitating networks with online teaching experts
Time to investigate and reflect

12. Questions and comments