HE Education Reimagined: Signposting a Learning Pathway to Success - University of Queensland

1. Learning Pathway
Online Navigational Support for Students
within a Structured Flipped Classroom
Esther Fink, Marnie Holt, Jon Dawson

2. First Year Engineering
at the University of Queensland (UQ)
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3. OLT project: REIMAGINING ENGINEERING EDUCATION
• RADICAL TRANSFORMATION: REIMAGINING ENGINEERING
EDUCATION THROUGH FLIPPING THE CLASSROOM IN A
GLOBAL LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
• OLT project team headed up by University of Queensland
(Carl Reidsema, Lydia Kavanagh and Philip Long)

4. First Year Engineering at UQ – our context
• Transition from High School (95%):
moving from teacher centric to self-regulated
learning
• A large (1200+ student)
multidisciplinary design course
• Diverse cohort:
20% international (mostly Asia)
20% female

5. Teaching Characteristics
• Project centred curriculum
• Team focused with individual
and mutual accountabilities
• A cross disciplinary
collaborative approach
• Realistic relevant projects &
broad professional practice
issues
• Discovery-based learning
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6. The Learning Pathway:
Online Navigational Support for Students
within the Structured Flipped Classroom
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7. The Learning Pathway – signposting a path to success
• Bridging the gap
between online an
face-to face spaces
• Structured online
navigational interface
“Need to know”
“Need to do”
• Just-in-time
information to reduce
cognitive load
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8. The Learning Pathway – signposting a path to success
• Hyperlinks open in
overlay
• “Mark reviewed” to
visualise progress
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9. Results
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10. The Learning pathway – a scaffold
• Authentic learning is complex and ill-structured
by nature
• Self-directed learning requires learners to self-organise,
evaluate, and monitor their progress
• The Learning Pathway helped students adapt +
successfully manage their development as
learners
• The visual representation of the course
requirements was instrumental to planning for
(and achieving) success in the course.
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11. Student reflections
Student Prior to ENG1200 (Week 2) End of ENGG1200 (Week 12)
A I personally struggle with planning and organisation
and am already finding it rather difficult to stick to
deadlines.
The thing that helped me the most … was the Blackboard
Learning Pathway. Being able to view the information
relevant to that current week, set out in a well-structured
manner was very helpful.
B It is more difficult to organise a group because some
tasks can only be completed after other sections have
been finished.
I feel <that> the learning pathway on blackboard helped us
to plan when to complete work as it contained all the due
dates necessary in the one place.
C In terms of organisation and planning we’ve found it
difficult to pin point commencement and completion
dates … because we aren’t sure when we’ll be able to
actually accomplish them, based on what knowledge,
and resources are required.
I thought the ‘Learning Pathway’ was a good help and that
the ‘You need to know’ and ‘You need to do’ were especially
helpful for time management.
D It's week 2 and I am feeling quite overwhelmed and
anxious about engg1200. Looking through the learning
pathway on blackboard has revealed a mountain of work
that is required of me every week and I am worried that I
will fall behind.
The BB learning pathway helped outline the week’s goals
which made it easier for me to complete tasks on time.

12. Where to from here?
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13. Visualise learning and engagement
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Need to know
Need to do
COMING SOON:
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