Presentation Panel
Powering Up the Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Higher Education
Date Thursday, Nov 24 Time – Room: Schoeneberg I/II/III
In an era of near ubiquitous internet provision, and powerful, smart devices almost all delivery of content has “gone blended”. The question is: how do you implement effective blends that make the most of the content and technology available. Speakers in this session will share different approaches on how to set up a blended learning programme. Come prepared to also share your insights and experiences!
Denis Staskewitsch
Sales Director, Panopto, United Kingdom
Denis has over 7 years of experience working with organisations to help them select and implement technology-based solutions which enhance the learning experience. He has worked with many clients to enable them to realise the potential of blended learning approaches by integrating video into their training and onboarding programmes.
Currently, Denis is the Sales Director for Panopto EMEA, a leading Video Platform software provider used by hundreds of educational and corporate organisations worldwide, serving over 10 million end-users at businesses and institutions across the world.
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Peter Dekker
Educational Consultant, Amsterdam University of Applied Science, Netherlands
Peter Dekker works as an educational consultant at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science, where he combines two functions. The first is as innovation manager at the HvA Academie, a corporate university within the larger University. The second is for the Innovationpartners: a group of ambassadors who support blended learning at the University.
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Judith Vennix
Programme Manager, RUAS, Netherlands
Starting as a teacher of history in secondary school Judith Vennix developed an interest in making education more flexible and meaningful. Later on in her career as teacher trainer at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences this developed into an interest in blended learning. As project leader educational technology she managed an innovation hub supporting teachers who wanted to innovate their courses with funding, coaching and research. Now, as program manager Blended Learning, her goal is to make the organization aware of the fact that the impact of blended learning lies also in other areas than educational design and development.
Moderator
Alejandro Armellini
Dean of Digital and Distributed Learning, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Alejandro (Ale) Armellini is Professor and Dean of Digital and Distributed Learning at the University of Portsmouth. His role is to provide leadership in digital learning and learning innovation, including on-campus and distance provision, across all Faculties. Before joining Portsmouth, Ale was Dean of Learning and Teaching at the University of Northampton, where he was the strategic lead for the redesign of all programmes for active blended learning. Ale is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Ale’s research and doctoral supervision focus on learning innovation, blended and online pedagogy, institutional capacity building and open practices. He holds visiting professorships at several UK and overseas universities. His latest co-edited book is Cases on Active Blended Learning in Higher Education (2021).
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Learning in the Hybrid Age: Disassembling and Reassembling
This presentation lays the groundwork and foundations for a change of mindset in everything related to the perception of hybrid learning.
Hybrid learning nowadays is often seen as another name for Zoom lessons, but hybrid pedagogy is a context that transcends online and offline distinctions, challenging teacher and student roles, combining informal and formal learning, mixing digital and analogue communication, a blend of virtual and physical, school-based learning and experiential learning, passive and active learning and blurring lines between other dimensions. By blurring boundaries and empowering learners, we lower barriers and create a changing, renewable learning environment.
COVID-19 has been an incredible catalyst for learning in the digital age, but unfortunately, many educators have copied their well-known methods of teaching in person into the digital world and have failed. The result has not brought to light the tremendous potential inherent in learning that incorporates technology.
I will present a comprehensive concept about hybrid learning based on the learning environments of the Center for Educational Technology. I will clarify the concept of hybrid learning among educators and learning experts and show a working case study.
Overview
- Extract, analyse, and define hybrid learning.
- Meet new possibilities of learning by technology.
- Get a guideline on developing your own hybrid learning environment.
The Classroom, Reimagined. How Universities Are Leveraging Virtual Learning as a Cornerstone of the In-Person experience, Denis Staskewitsch
The seismic shift toward virtual learning shows no signs of slowing down – even for universities that have returned to the classroom. Video learning has evolved to become the foundation for an accessible, flexible, future-proof learning paradigm that both students and faculty have come to expect from their educators and institutions – whether at home or on campus.
Join Panopto's Denis Staskewitsch to discover:
- Data-driven trends around in-person and virtual lecture capture from more than 1,100 educational institutions.
- How the University of Notre Dame streamlined and elevated virtual learning while remaining committed to face-to-face learning.
- The importance of “The Big Three” technologies as the backbone of the virtual and in-person classroom.
- 3 strategies for leveraging virtual learning tools to enhance the in-person classroom.
Critical Factors for Implementing Blended Learning Across an Institution, Peter Dekker
Attendees at this presentation will learn about the importance of targeting and working with support staff, and how to build a productive relationship. They will discover the importance of a narrative and the impact of making change & innovation a part of everyday work.
Overview
- Understand how an institution-wide implementation programme can be set up and develop ideas on different ways to do so.
- Get an overview of contextual factors that determine the design of an implementation programme.
- Learn about acceptable indicators for the measurement of such a programme.
Implementing Blended Learning as an Organisational Science, Judith Vennix
This presentation talks about the effects of blended learning not only on education and faculty but throughout your organisation and the way professional learning communities can lead to common ground and co-operation in developing and implementing blended learning.
Overview
- Identify (some of) the consequences of changing from a service-based organisation to a product/service-based organisation.
- Challenges and opportunities of a bottom-up approach in implementing blended learning.
- How to go about changing your corporate culture with a bottom-up approach.