The Future of Blended Learning in Higher Education 2021
Online Event 17 June 2021, 9:00am - 4:00pm
Day 1
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
9:40am
Keynote Address: Learning Technology at the Heart of Learning and Teaching: Understanding The Response To COVID-19 And Exploring The Future Of Digital Learning And Teaching
- Understanding how Learning Technology has positively impacted students in improving access, convenience and efficiency in 2020/2021
- Collaborating with teachers, technology practitioners, education sector and wider government bodies to support effective learning through technology
- Exploring a new ethical framework for using technology for learning and teaching
- Embracing blended learning in curriculum design and expanding the digital skills and confidence of students and staff
- Championing the importance of expertise in scaling up the intelligent use of Learning Technology
Dr Maren Deepwell, CEO, ALT
10:00am
Case Study: Successfully Developing And Delivering Online Learning Through Distance Or Blended Learning Degrees
- Addressing the challenges of online pedagogy and course design in online environments to deliver innovative learning experiences
- Assessing student-faculty engagement including one-to-one conversations and face-to-face components
- Ensuring optimum student interaction via online forums, discussion boards and alumni networks
- The impact and considerations on academic staff when developing and delivering online learning through distance or blended learning
- Successful support strategies for academic staff to help them find their place in the online and blended learning spaces
Dr Richard Nelson SFHEA, Educational Developer Learning, Teaching and Quality Enhancement, University of Bradford
10:20am
How to Increase Student Collaboration in the 'New Normal' of Blended Learning
- Join GoTo by LogMeIn to learn about how you can leverage webinar capabilities to:
- Scale your virtual lectures and events to reach to up to 3,000 attendees
- Maximise interaction as you collaborate with students virtually with polls, Q&A & chat
- Enable asynchronous learning with recorded lectures that give students the ability to submit questions and evaluations, as well as respond to polls
Aoife Hughes, Global Senior Product Marketing Manager, GoTo by LogMeIn
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Break and Networking
11:35am
Case Study: Ensuring A Good Student Experience And High-Quality Education Using Blended Learning
- Providing students with an environment in which to collaborate, interact, engage and learn
- Progressing innovative ideas and pushing the boundaries in what is possible for blended learning
- Ensuring full student support for both online and on-campus learning by faculty teams and the wider provision of student services
- Making the balance of learning and teaching methods and activities sufficiently flexible to adapt and enable students to succeed in their studies
- Case study examples from students who have benefitted from the blended learning approach
Professor Neil Morris, Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Digital Transformation, University of Leeds
11:55am
Video-Accelerated Digital Transformation of Education
- Exploring the impact of Covid on schools pivoting to a variety of synchronous and asynchronous video technologies
- Understanding how these technologies enabled the quick shift from the classroom to digital delivery
- Discussing the challenges and advantages and how these can be used as a framework to build the future of education
- The future of blended learning in education and how video technology is helping us re-imagine learning experiences
Adrien Bourg, Sales Director of EMEA, Kaltura
12:15pm
Case Study
Dr. Andrew Turner, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), Coventry University
12:35pm
What We Should Have Learned About eLearning During Covid-19 (But Didn't)
- Systems are important, but not as important as people. The role of instructors was and will be more valuable than any state-of-the-art elearning solution
- Humans have a natural desire to learn. We need to be aware of this innate motivation to learn and participate as facilitators in the learning process
- We need each other to learn. Having each other's support and know-how is the bedrock of successful teaching and learning experiences
- You're on mute! (No explanation needed)
Phill Miller, Managing Director, Open LMS
12:55pm
Questions And Answers Session
1:15pm
Lunch And Networking
2:00pm
The future of Blended Learning in FE
- Shaping the Digital Future of FE & Skills 4: Learning from mass transition to remote learning and working
- Key findings: Learners, digital pedagogy, accessibility and online learning
- Understanding how digital teaching and learning can be facilitated through staff development, consistency, and interactivity
Robin Ghurbhurun, Managing Director, Further Education and Skills, Jisc
2:20pm
Dare to Care: Improve Blended Learning Outcomes Through Applications of Instructor Immediacy Behaviours
- Discussing teacher immediacy as the behaviors associated with a student's perception of a teacher/instructor's care and concern
- Review online teacher immediacy and reporting related to teacher immediacy
- Develop and implement frameworks and strategies to improve teacher immediacy and reporting
- Understand the correlation between improved learning and student engagement and teacher immediacy
Tonya Riney Chief Operating Office, IntelliBoard
2:40pm
Case Study: Analysing the Move to Online Learning in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Introducing a new and unfamiliar form of learning
- Cross-institutional collaboration, involving colleagues from academic development, digital education, and senior academic management to develop the principles to inform the approach to online learning and teaching
- Working strategically and at scale to support active participation, community building, and a consistent student experience
- Considering change in the context of future learning and teaching at the university.
Joanna Stroud, Head of Online Learning University College London
3:00pm
Case Study: Preparing Courses And Creating Engaging Online Materials For Distance Learning Or Blended Learning Degrees
- Taking teaching into a blended format that meets student needs and evaluating different examples of blended and online learning
- Using a structured approach to begin to build blended teaching and getting support from those with experience in blended and online education
- Evaluating the advantages of asynchronous learning such as short recorded videos or online learning material
- Ensuring that students can interact with academic staff for support and guidance to meet the learning outcomes of courses
- Promoting active learning with activities to keep students engaged and to help build confidence
Professor Rebecca Bennett, Professor of Bioethics, University of Manchester
3:20pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:45pm
Chair’s Summary And Close