This presentation is linked to a workshop presented at the HEA enhancement event 'Ways of knowing, ways of learning: innovation in pedagogy for graduate success'. The blog post that accompanies this presentation can be accessed via http://bit.ly/1sTfSRa
Flexible learners for a global future - Alison Le Cornu
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Flexible Learners for a global future
27 November 2014
Dr Alison Le Cornu, SFHEA, FSEDA
Table of Contents
Aims
Objectives
Opening discussion
Introduce set of HEA Flexible Pedagogies reports
Focus on overarching report: Professor Ron Barnett’s Conditions of Flexibility: securing
a more responsive higher education system (2014)
Introduce draft flexible learning framework
Group work
Plenary discussion
New Pedagogical Ideas
Group work
To conclude…
Thank you!
Aims
This session will enable academic colleagues to identify a range of flexible attributes
that will enable students to contribute to a globally connected society, and explore
the implications for their practice.
Objectives
Participants will:
● examine a range of flexible attributes that scholarship suggests will be
important for students to develop in the 21st century;
● discuss these attributes in relation to the wider global context;
● consider ways in which they might respond to the challenges in terms of their
practice as educators.
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Opening discussion
What does flexible learning mean to you?
What are the benefits? Challenges?
Introduce set of HEA Flexible Pedagogies reports
Parttime learners and learning
New pedagogical ideas
Technologyenhanced learning
Employer engagement and workbased learning
(Review of credit accumulation and transfer policy and practice in UK higher education)
Focus on overarching report: Professor Ron Barnett’s
Conditions of Flexibility: securing a more responsive higher
education system (2014)
Discuss key messages
Group work discussion of two key questions:
● What do you see as the most essential part of Barnett’s message? Why?
● To what extent do you agree with Barnett’s suggestions of why a move towards
greater flexibility in UK higher education is being encouraged? (Bullet point 4
above)
Introduce draft flexible learning framework
Focus on outer circle: Global fluidity, employment agility and sector responsivity.
Offer reasons why these are important drivers for increased flexible learning.
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New Pedagogical Ideas
Discuss key features of the report
Group work
Group discussions focusing on the six pedagogical ideas contained within the report.
To conclude…
Plenary discussion
● Is flexible learning part of your own institution?
○ What form?
○ How does it compare and contrast to the understanding of flexible learning
within Barnett’s and Ryan and Tilbury’s reports?
● Is flexible learning something you feel is crucial to develop, both within the sector
and within your own institution?
● How might the ideas and reports you have engaged with during this workshop
influence your practice?
● What one thing will you take away with you from this workshop?
Thank you!
Thank you for attending this workshop.
Please keep in touch with us.
Follow us on Twitter: @HEA_flexible
Email us on: flexible.learning@heacademy.ac.uk
Email Alison Le Cornu on: alison.lecornu@heacademy.ac.uk
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