Abstract:

As the fourth industrial revolution continues to transform our societies, education institutions are being challenged to provide flexible learning pathways to meet changing demands from the next generation of learners (Schwab, 2016). Solutions already available allow for the ‘rebundling' of education (Czernowicz, 2018) into micro-, flipped-, blended- and coalescent learning approaches, which can complement existing on-campus teaching practices or offer new alternatives. These offer the potential to rethink conventional on-campus teaching methods, and use technologies to connect learners and learning (Couperthwaite, 2018). This session will explore these new technological opportunities, and include a focus on the challenges for institutions, educators and students of adjusting to this new form of teaching and learning, particularly the adaptation of classes to active learning (Freeman et al 2014), teaching online and at scale (Cronin et al, 2016), using technology in the classroom (White, 2016), and ensuring institutional policies are suited to these new teaching paradigms (Nordmann & McGeorge, 2018).

References:
[1] J. Couperthwaite, “Capturing active learning: new opportunities to enhance learner engagement". 10th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Seville, 2018.
[2] C. Cronin, T. Cochrine, A. Gordon, J. Verjans. "Nurturing Global Collaboration and Networked Learning in Higher Education”. Research in Learning Technology 2016, 24
[3] L. Czernowicz. "Unbundling Rebundling Higher Education”. Networked Learning, Zagreb, May 2018.
[4] S. Freeman, S.L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M.K. Smith, N. Okorafor, H. Jordt & M.P. Wenderoth, “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 23, 8410–8415.
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[6] K. Schwab. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Portfolio Penguin. 2016
[7] D. White. “Coalescent spaces”. Blog post, 22 January 2016

Keywords:

Active learning, blended learning, education, technology, engagement, collaboration.