Dr Kim Blackmore
Director of Interactive Learning
Australian National University
Conference Day Two: Wednesday, 7th August 2019
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
10:20 AM How Australian National University is Empowering Academics to Better Work Together with Learning Designers
Creating mutually respectful relationships between academics and learning designers is crucial to leverage diverse expertise to improve the student learning experience. Resistance to the stress of change is very common despite the potential learning benefits and must be managed effectively to ensure sustainable innovation. ANU is using an agile approach to managing course development projects with 360-degree feedback that enables course design teams to engage effectively with multiple stakeholder perspectives.
This session will talk about:
- Establishing effective collaboration in course design by teams of learning designers and technologists, teaching academics and students
- Using agile methodologies to minimize risk and ensure course development projects are responsive to stakeholder feedback.
- Capturing perspectives collaboratively so that leadership and team can grapple with complex issues in a sophisticated manner
- Enabling senior learning designers to oversee course design quality and build capacity through coaching and mentoring.
- Transforming teaching practice through a deliberate, thoughtful approach that includes technology to simplify teaching jobs without infringing on academic expertise
4:40 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: Identifying Appropriate Metrics to Determine Influence of Learning Design on Student Outcomes
With today’s challenging landscape it has become important to find ways to quantify the effect of learning design to justify investment into programs and change.
Panellists will discuss:
- Discussing the challenges in assessing value for new and existing learning design initiatives
- Connecting the dots on how learning design is crucial in enabling students outcomes by being more interactive, collaborative and engaging
- Leveraging data analytics to enable efficient learning design