File(s) under permanent embargo
Profile of a fully online unit in an Australian arts and education faculty
conference contribution
posted on 2009-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ian WarrenIan Warren, Marcia Macgugan, J GouldAustralia's leading distance education provider, Deakin University, has a policy to ensure all graduates in most courses must successfully complete at least one wholly online unit. Historically, all distance education at Deakin University has been undertaken solely in print. Off-campus students normally receive a Set Text, a series of additional photocopied readings and a Study Guide providing assistance on how to navigate through each weekly topic. Some fully online units currently offered by the University replicate this approach, ever though a distinct pedagogy is needed to ensure wholly online units truly enhance student learning.
This paper outlines the approach we adopted in developing AIX 391 - Work Transitions in the 2Ist Century, a wholly online unit designed to improve the capacity of Arts and Education students to identify viable career paths after they have graduated, The paper outlines the unit's rationale and development over a two-year period in adopting a student-centred approach to enhance teaming outcomes, while exposing students to new and often challenging online technologies. The paper also highlights results from the Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning surveys, which ranked the unit in the top 5% of all Arts and Education faculty units offered in Semester 2, 2008.
This paper outlines the approach we adopted in developing AIX 391 - Work Transitions in the 2Ist Century, a wholly online unit designed to improve the capacity of Arts and Education students to identify viable career paths after they have graduated, The paper outlines the unit's rationale and development over a two-year period in adopting a student-centred approach to enhance teaming outcomes, while exposing students to new and often challenging online technologies. The paper also highlights results from the Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning surveys, which ranked the unit in the top 5% of all Arts and Education faculty units offered in Semester 2, 2008.
History
Event
International Conference on Open and Distance Learning (5th : 2009 : Athens, Greece)Pagination
1 - 13Publisher
ICODLLocation
Athens, GreecePlace of publication
Athens, GreeceStart date
2009-11-27End date
2009-11-29ISBN-13
9789608759718Language
engPublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2009, ICODLEditor/Contributor(s)
A LionarakisTitle of proceedings
ICODL 2009 : International Conference on Open and Distance Learning : Open and distance education for global collaboration & educational developmentUsage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedKeywords
Licence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC