Jonathan Powles

The influx of new technology and tools has forced higher education faculty members to examine their pedagogy, how they engage students, and how they use technology to teach. These new ways are changing the way society learns, interacts, communicates, and does business and as such, learning design is crucial is adapting to this. Panelists will discuss:

UNE is a regional university with an Australiawide and international cohort of 18,000 online students comprising 80% its total enrolment. UNE provides its students with a transformative learning experience that is enabled by a high quality, innovative and flexible learning environment. Currently, UNE is implementing a strategy of academic transformation through a radical curriculum redevelopment. As is often the case, the role of the learning designer is to articulate the voice of the students in the design process. Thus, in a change process in which the paradigm shift is to build a student-centred, flexible and personalized online learning experience which places “the student, not the subject, as the central feature of the university [learning experience]”, learning designers will take the lead.