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Ed Futures and the First Year Experience
This document discusses challenges for first-year students during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies for supporting them. It summarizes recent research on how the pandemic has transformed higher education, including a shift to online learning and uncertain job prospects for students. The document then outlines how the University of Southern Queensland is addressing these issues through its strategic plan, including more flexible academic calendars, online education, and leveraging emerging technologies. Staff are encouraged to consider small steps like piloting new teaching approaches to better support first-year students during this difficult time.
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- 1. Educational Futures & theFirst Year Experience School Planning Day School of Health & Wellbeing Bill Wade, Manager Educational Futures
- 2. Those First 4-5weeks Think, Pair, Share What are the likely challenges or pain points your students will face? What can you do and/or have you done in the past to help students through this period? Take 5 minutes and discuss with a partner sitting next to you Share with larger group, your ideas and things you might do Ed Futures & the First Year Experience 2
- 3. Educational Futures & thePandemic Green, Anderson, Tait, & Tran (2020) Precarity, fear and hope: reflecting and imagining in higher education educations during a global pandemic, Higher Education Research and Development Reflecting -in-action and the work of imagining the future The extraordinary significance of the pandemic as it transforms HE What does recovery mean and what is it we want to “recover?” A mass-scale experiment in remote and virtual teaching New appreciation for the potential of online learning Inequitability, job loss, grim economic impact, uncertain futures, unemployment Transform precarity and disruption into creativity, flexible and inclusive teaching and learning Ed Futures & the First Year Experience 3
- 4. Educational Futures & thePandemic Rajan Gurukkal (2020) Will COVID 19 Turn Higher Education into Another Mode? Higher Education for the Future 7(2) 89-96, 2020 Survival struggles lead to potential alternatives Will crisis-driven alternative economy responses, e.g., basic income, work sharing, food security measures, survive? There will be a rise of flourishing techno-capitalists Mode of teaching has shifted irreversibly to online and virtual learning Universities will update technologically equipped proctor centres for examinations HE more personal and self-directed vs general and institutionally administered Online mode is going to stay as the new normal and de facto substitute Ed Futures & the First Year Experience 4
- 5. What’s onthe Horizon? USQ & Our Educational Future USQ Strategic and Academic Plans • The new normal post COVID-19 • Flexible academic calendar • Online education & flexible assessment • Short form courses and micro-credentials • Data, analytics, and student supports
- 6. Educational Futures More Globally Educause Horizon Report Economic, Technological, Political, Higher Education and Social, trends Convergence Ed Futures & the First Year Experience 6
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- 9. Leverage Emerging Technologies Online Digital Learning USQ as a VIRTUAL Campus USQ Technology Demonstrators USQ Hub for Immersive and Virtual Experiences (the HIVE) Faculty and School Discipline Specific Initiatives What is happening specifically in your school to address the increased demand for online learning? Ed Futures & the First Year Experience 9
- 10. Tech Demonstrators • Callsfor innovation • A strong culture / risk • Organisational gridlock • Small-scale creativity • Demonstrator ethos • Exploring innovation
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- 13. The HIVE Engaging online studentsand staff
- 14. Some Examples &Affordances USQ Lightboard 360 Degree Video Virtual Tours, e.g., SeekBeak 3D Learning Objects, e.g., Sketchfab Augmented Reality (information overlays) Ed Futures & the First Year Experience 14
- 15. Ed Futures &the First Year Experience 15 Augmenting Reality … Overlaying information
- 16. Ed Futures &the First Year Experience 16 Lightboards … What can you use them for?
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- 18. ACTIONS Take Aways& Executables What small steps can you take to lead self, others or the organisation to better support the First Year Experience, with a special focus on leveraging and emerging technology or innovative teaching approach? Think, reflect, commit to an action Consider using a Commitment Card & have a peer check in on you in 2 months time Ed Futures & the First Year Experience 18
- 19. Commitment Card Ed Futures& the First Year Experience 19
- 20. Find out more: CRICOSQLD 00244B | NSW 02225M TEQSA: PRV12081 07 4631 1600 http://hive.usq.edu.au oalt@usq.edu.au / demonstrators@usq.edu.au / hive@usq.edu.au Considering a demonstrator or have a virtual or immersive experience you want to explore @ USQ?
- 21. Find out more: CRICOSQLD 00244B | NSW 02225M TEQSA: PRV12081 07 4631 2636 https://staffprofile.usq.edu.au/Profile/Bill-Wade bill.wade@usq.edu.au For further discussion on educational futures feel free to contact me
Editor's Notes
- #11 Why is it so hard for universities to innovate or organisations to be agile? In 2017, Wade, Udas and Brosnan had two articles accepted for publication addressing this question and describing the approach taken by USQ to address the innovation paradox. The innovation paradox arises from the need for a stable core environment but also a need to be agile enough to experiment and explore. The two are both necessary, but seem to be contradictory. From Agility: It Rhymes with Stability Aghina, De Smet, Weerda (2015) Technology Demonstrators aims to help balance the innovation paradox and make a positive impact upon learning and teaching at USQ. Initial reach and outcomes data suggests that we may well be on our way to having that kind of impact. More research and evidence gathering will be underway in 2018 to know for sure. Nearly 30% of USQ staff and students have engaged with a Technology Demonstrator. Why Demonstrate? More and more university graduates are choosing to be entrepreneurs. USQ understands that entrepreneurial thinking needs to be developed and demonstrated at the university. In order to spread innovation at USQ, we started Technology Demonstrators in 2015 to “under-complicate” decision making. We designed the program to be agile, simple and easy to use. University teachers are testing technologies that they believe will have a positive impact on student learning. Our overall goal is to influence a culture of innovation at USQ and beyond.