Dr. Valerie Irvine's document discusses multi-access learning, outlining four tiers: face-to-face, synchronous online, asynchronous online, and open. It highlights challenges faced by brick-and-mortar universities, such as demographic declines and competition from online programs, while suggesting solutions like recruiting international students and offering flexible course delivery options. The emphasis is on promoting student agency and choice in accessing educational resources to ensure relevance in a changing landscape.

1. Multi-Access
Learning
Dr. Valerie Irvine
@_valeriei
#multiaccess July 24, 2013 for BlendSync (AUS)
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2. Dr. Valerie Irvine
Assistant Professor, EdTech
Co-Director, TIE Lab
University of Victoria
http://edtech.uvic.ca/virvine
http://tie.uvic.ca
@_valeriei
virvine@uvic.ca

3. Access
Control
Learner Agency

8. Irvine, V. (2013). Multi-Access Learning

9. Four Tiers of Multi-Access
1.Face-to-Face
2.Synchronous Online
3.Asynchronous Online
4.Open

10. Grand Yellowhead School Division, Alberta

11. The Technology Integration and
Evaluation (TIE) Research Lab

12. Irvine, V. (2011). Multi-Access learning

14. Seems Like A Lot of Effort?

15. Online Learning
• 25% increase in Higher Ed e-learning market in
2012-2017 (Education Sector Factbook, 2012)
• Full-time students are in the minority (Bates)
• Brick-and-Mortar Universities are sleeping
giants in online learning (Irvine, 2013)

16. Revenue
• 90-95% controlled by government
• 50-60% in grants
• Remainder in regulated domestic tuition

17. Decreasing 18-22 demographic nationally.
USask, (2009). Managing enrollment strategically at the University of Saskatchewan 2009 Report.
Available online: http://bit.ly/Ik8ypY

18. Student Tuition Income
• Demographic decline a significant issue
• Domestic numbers unlikely to increase before
2030
• International student numbers will drop
quickly after 2020
• Ability to increase resources is about
increasing net tuition

19. ISSUES FACING BRICK &
MORTAR UNIVERSITIES
Current PSE Landscape demonstrates
1. Diminishing funds/cutbacks from the provincial
government;
2. Increase in colleges with degree-granting status
provincially
3. Increase in online programs globally

20. Increase in online programs
world-wide…. or
Everything we provide is now offered by
someone else.
-- David Wiley

21. Meeting Future Revenue Needs
• Governments… not
• Undergraduate students… not much
• Graduate students… yes
• International students… yes, but now competitive

22. ISSUES FACING BRICK &
MORTAR UNIVERSITIES
What students want:
Flexibility in their learning options
• Many have to work FT/PT jobs to be able to
afford PSE
• Reluctant to leave their positions in this
economic climate

23. SOLUTION to Increase
Revenue
Top ways cited to increase revenue are to:
1. Recruit international students; and
2. Deliver course-based master’s programs.

24. A 3rd SOLUTION…
Change access
and registration
options

25. SOLUTION:
Multi-Access Learning

26. Current Face to Face Option

27. Current Online Option

29. Destination in Place and Space

30. LEARNER ACCESS:
Promoting Student Agency
• Emergence of choice - expanding
“anytime, anywhere”
• Social media/personalized learning networks
expanded this to “with anyone”
• I would like to expand this to “in any way”

31. MOST IMPORTANTLY
Transfer locus of control of how to access
courses to the learner.

33. Reassembling the Building Blocks
has RISK…but we otherwise risk irrelevance

34. VALERIE IRVINE, PH.D
virvine@uvic.ca | @_valeriei
http://edtech.uvic.ca/virvine
http://tie.uvic.ca/ | @TIELab