Presentation from Lynnae Rankin, eLearning Manager at UWS. This presentation was given on the 2012 CAUDIT Learning Space Study Tour and discusses the importance of Learning Space Design for Blended Learning

1. The importance of learning
spaces in blended learning
Lynnae Rankine, e-Learning Manager
(l.rankine@uws.edu.au)

2. “The higher education sector is undergoing a
fundamental transformation in terms of its
role in society, mode of operation, and
economic structure and value”
Source: Ernst & Young “University of the Future” 2012

3. Blended learning
is a driver of
change for the
universities of the
future
Source: Ernst & Young “University of the Future” 2012

4. What is blended learning at UWS?

5. Blended learning at UWS refers to a strategic
and systematic approach to combining times
and modes of learning, integrating the best
aspects of face-to-face and online interactions
for each discipline, using appropriate ICTs.

6. The student experience
• Offers on campus experience
• Progressively prepares students for more blended
learning
• Is discipline context specific
• Provides different avenues for interaction
• Offers fully off-campus as an option

7. What does blended learning look
like?
Intensive on-campus learning
Online lectures & Site-based
on-campus learning
seminars
Creating and
Access to learning sharing content
anytime
Use UWS
Group assignments & technologies
online peer review of with my own
work
Flexible Social Study
for me networks groups

8. Blending it all
Formal, informal, virtual learning
Promoting engaged
enquiry, authentic and
discovery-based learning
Incorporates
student
Offering learning
collaboration preferences
anytime,
anywhere
Source: http://sydney.edu.au/elearning/learningSpace/ltSpace.shtml

9. Critical questions
1. What are the learning outcomes?
2. What, and where, are the learning activities?
3. What will students do online?
4. What will students do on campus, on-site?
5. What supports are required?

10. Conclusion
• Blended learning is the combination of times and modes
of learning, integrates the best aspects of face-to-face
and online interactions for each discipline, using
appropriate ICTs
• Examples of blended learning include authentic learning
contexts, problem solving, project based learning tasks
• Designing optimal learning spaces, virtual and physical,
will be a key success factor for blended learning