2. Professor Graham Webb What is flexible learning? How will we know when we are doing it well? How are we doing?

3. Professor Graham Webb What is flexible learning? word association... one or two words technology, information technology, web, cost-saving, replacing teachers, distance education, teleteaching, remote delivery etc

4. Professor Graham Webb What is flexible learning? Still a legitimate question CHED Guide No 1: “What is Flexible Learning?”

5. Professor Graham Webb silly to think we can ‘simply’ define it ‘learning’ is difficult enough............ massive, complex and contested area why has ‘flexible’ learning become an issue?

6. Professor Graham Webb response to the challenges of: massification (363 - 1961; 42k - 1998) diversity (100 countries; 17% HK, M, S; 25% > 30 years old) life-long learning skills (information explosion; shelf-life of knowledge)

7. Professor Graham Webb move from institution and teaching to more student-centred learning what is flexible learning: an umbrella term for increasing student access and choice... in...

8. Professor Graham Webb entry and exit (enrolment, qualifications, RPL, articulation) programme and course structures (electives, streams, completion times) time of learning (start date, offerings per year, assessment periods, pace of learning)

9. Professor Graham Webb place of learning (on/off campus mix, workplace, study abroad) learning: content (lectures, tuts, practs, labs, libraries, print based materials, multi-media materials, on- line materials.... choice, negotiated curriculum, self/group-direction)

10. Professor Graham Webb learning: interactions student-teacher, student-student (email, conferencing (tele, desktop, video), fax, mail, study/syndicate groups and rooms, newsgroups, chatrooms, face-to-face individual, group, class)

11. Professor Graham Webb assessment (time, choice, negotiation, self/group- direction) support (automated, personalised, equality of access)

12. Professor Graham Webb flexible learning is not (simply): use of information / educational technology (teleteaching, web etc) distance education (from one-stop factory to decentralised production; deregulation; multiple production providers; short time-lines)

13. Professor Graham Webb A cheap alternative to lecturing/ a way of reducing staff (but there are consequences for how we work) Again, flexible learning is the umbrella term for a direction of travel

14. Professor Graham Webb How will we know when we are doing it well? Technology won’t tell us...... Retrogressive.... metaphors of teaching What do we know about good teaching?

15. Professor Graham Webb 1Provides appropriate learning experiences 2Provides appropriate assessment 3Encourages active learning 4Encourages cooperation

16. Professor Graham Webb 5Provides prompt and helpful feedback 6Respects diversity 7Models scholarly values 8Builds relationships

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18. CUTSD... An Evaluation of Information Technology Projects for University Learning

19. Professor Graham Webb How are we doing as a University? Still in the early stages, but we have come a long way since last year:

20. Professor Graham Webb Monash Plan Learning and Teaching Operational Plan Strategic Innovations Fund University Teaching Development Grants? Faculty Teaching Development Grants

21. Professor Graham Webb Commitment to new administrative systems Reconsideration of support systems Development of Faculty teams, production facilities Director of Information Technology, coherence and vision

22. Professor Graham Webb Flexible Learning Development Unit (CHED) - ‘front-end’ educational planning and design - Flexible Learning Guides - Case Studies (Monash academics) - central, faculty and campus workshops - web resources and links - development counts towards Grad Cert HE

23. Professor Graham Webb What do we still need to do? - develop a strategic plan for flexible learning; - pull together all the activity; - create enduring structures to plan, monitor, coordinate (eg FL environments, teleteaching, web development etc); - create more opportunities like this

24. Professor Graham Webb opportunities to enjoy talking to each other... but, also go back and talk to your colleagues who are not here adopt a colleague

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