My slides from a presentation at Samara State Aerospace University, Russia, May 2015

1. Designing your online
or blended learning
course…
Clive Buckley
Glyndwr University
Wales
United Kingdom
…a conversation
Samara State Aerospace University, May 2015

2. So what will we be looking
at?

3. It is about the
learning
not the technology

4. Are you using or
thinking about using a
VLE in your teaching?

5. “Every university in the
world thought they were
innovating by introducing a
virtual learning
environment”

6. Drivers to online learning

7. Rapid technology change
Wide availability of online technologies
Growth in the higher education global market
Growth in HE to provide mass HE
Globalization, shared markets and cultures, greater
competition
Increase and abundance in student IT skills
Change in student lifestyles to include part-time
work
Extrinsic Drivers

8. Barriers to going
online

9. Are you
sceptical?
‘My students
wouldn’t like it’

10. None of your
students aged 25 or
younger have
known a world
without the internet

11. Expectation

13. A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk

14. “...the way that people behave in
a face-to-face context, and the
way they behave in an online
context are two totally different
things Associate Professor Rick Bennett

15. Existing face-to-face content
and teaching strategies will not
usually work as successfully in
an online context without
modification
Do not simply re-use
classroom materials

16. Blended
Learning

17. Unlocking the
medium
“The medium is the message”
Marshall McLuhan

18. Some ideas

19. Blended Learning Approaches
Avoid duplication
Avoid ‘gimmicks’
Develop activities that
benefit from the technology
Active not passive
Start slow and evaluate
Explain!
Avoid duplication
Avoid ‘gimmicks’
Develop activities that benefit
from the technology
Active not passive
Start slow and evaluate
Explain!

20. Moving online

21. Recognize that on-line is
different
Provide Scaffolding
Facilitate and Measure
engagement

22. The Issue of Self

23. The Essence of Community

24. Social constructivism
Collaborative Intelligence

25. “Through others, we
become ourselves”
Lev Vygotsky
(1896 – 1934)

26. Student activities

27. Debates are
important
Forums / Discussion boards
‘Nearly Now’ Conference

28. Isolation

29. Authentic
assessment
Time sensitive
Product-based

30. Thank you
спасибо
Clive Buckley
Glyndŵr University
c.buckley@Glyndwr.ac.uk