Learning to Transform Higher Education – Gaining Insights Through a Readiness Assessment (66343)
Session Chair: Anshuman Khare
Sunday, January 8, 2023 (17:20)
Session: Session 3
Room: Live-Stream C
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
The pandemic ushered in a long-heralded shift to online delivery of education. We are now waking up to a post-pandemic-hybrid-flex delivery world, but only a few have wrestled with the full meaning of the new pathways. The expectations of post pandemic students is different. The on-campus experience, cherished before the pandemic, is giving way to the expectation of flexibility and choice. The online enablement of services that enabled “normal” life to continue during the pandemic is testimony to the new perspective. The challenge for institutions is to design a new multi-modal, multi-channel, multi-technology organisation, that retains the strengths and value of traditional learning methods, and to combine them in new ways to produce richer more flexible delivery options. A new digital infrastructure is needed which can utilise many of the existing components, but in new combinations, with new objectives and most importantly within a new design paradigm. The exact nature of this new design is still being determined as institutions iterate, experiment and trial innovative approaches. In this paper we provide key questions that will allow a greater understanding of what will be needed to create a digital under-structure supportive of hybrid and flex delivery while encompassing an integrated student-teacher experience. Our intention is to provide an accompanying assessment tool to improve awareness of and insights into the critical elements that need to be considered and thereby allow a broader synthesis of available information to derive more effective and impactful decisions.
Authors:
Anshuman Khare, Athabasca University, Canada
Brian Stewart, Simon Fraser University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Anshuman Khare is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Athabasca University in Canada
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