This session will look at the different approaches to blended learning, highlighting how blended learning is not a ‘one size fits all’ approach and how  higher education institutions can tailor it to the individuals’ needs. It will assess the different approaches highlighting successes and areas for improvement.  

• Embedding digital technologies in learning, teaching and assessment: where to start and challenges as opportunites
• Changing pedagogical practice: identifying issues and exploring collaborative solutions

Speakers from the session will rejoin for an audience Q&A

The panel will discuss how Higher Education can navigate the challenges and embrace the opportunities brought by emerging AI and ChatGPT. We will dive into the discussion of how we can ensure academic integrity while remaining high-quality teaching and learning experience in the wake of blended learning. There will be time for audience Q&A. 

This panel will be joined by: 

• Mark Dawe, Chief Executive, The Skills Network
• Dr Louise Drumm, Associate Professor, Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Edinburgh Napier University
• Sue Bennett, Senior Professor, Executive Dean, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Wollongong

• Teaching, lessons, tests and digital content: how can digital tools enhance the learning experience for students? 
• Creating and composing music: how digital tools can unlock new opportunities for students
• Podcasting across the curriculum: assessing the benefits for students 

The session will explore the benefits (and challenges) associated with blended learning structures higher education (HE) and also how adopting such an approach might help to address some of the barriers to HE experienced by individuals from socially and economically disadvantaged regions.

Speakers from the session will rejoin for an audience Q&A

• Draws on a case study that explored experiences of the changing learning spaces presented by Covid-19
• Offers insights from employing creative research methods and a sociomateriality lens
• Invites engagement with a forthcoming Symposia Series on Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: Prospects for Space in Higher Education

Universities and colleges moved swiftly to adopt and scale provision of education online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, Higher Education is now focused on cementing this adaptive move as part of its routine delivery. What worked in a crisis is unlikely insufficient to fully realise the pedagogic and operational gains for student, faculty, and institutional leaders. More needs to be done to embrace this adaptive challenge and drive innovation in curriculum and course design to sustain inclusive excellence.

Speakers from the session will rejoin for an audience Q&A

*Programme subject to change without notice