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Teaching & Learning Online: a perspective from a University

LibrarianSpeaker: Janet Copsey, The University of Auckland, NZ

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Drivers for change in tertiary education marketplace - 1

Growing market for tertiary education internationally

Growing competition within the international marketplace

Many countries are seeing a reduction in Government support for educational institutions with a consequent increase in student fees

Greater pressure on researchers, who are also teachers, to earn more income for their institutions and contribute more to professional bodies and the community at large

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Drivers for change in tertiary education marketplace - 2

Time pressures for students too who frequently have to work to pay for their courses and living costs

Pressures for teachers from Net Gen technologically-aware students who expect to be able to interact using technology as well as face to face

Continuing innovation in the IT and telecommunications sectors which is providing change opportunities for education

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Multiple Terms - distance, flexible, hybrid and blended learning, as well as e-learning!

Distance learning originally: Postal delivery of pre-packaged course materials

Supplementary teaching via audio conferences or TV and/or face-to-face block teaching

Distance learning today: Material delivered via the web or via CDROM

More likely to involve Learning Designers

Use of range of software tools as well as digital access to learning materials, eg online discussion, interactive learning tools, quizzes / tests, etc

Increasingly no face-to-face component required if the learning environment online is well designed

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Flexible, Hybrid, Blended Learning

In today’s digital environment

Flexible, Hybrid and Blending Learning overlaps with Distance Learning

Mixture of face-to-face teaching and web-based learning materials repository together with interactive learning activities, quizzes, online chat, etc

Courses generally designed by teachers without learning designers

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E-learning

E-Learning: use new technologies to fundamentally redesign the learning experience

For instance, instead of giving lectures in person or via podcasting, the focus might be on asking the student to search digital libraries for reading materials for the virtual class to discuss

Possible use of three-dimensional online synchronous environments such as “Second Life” to provide emulation of the real world - Harvard is now teaching a cyber law course in “Second Life”

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Changing Library Environments

Most tertiary libraries have rapidly shifted to the digital environment over the past ten years

Not only bibliographic databases, journals and newspapers in electronic form but increasingly books, music and images.

Demand for course readings to be available in both print and digital form has been there for many years but different legislative environments internationally have provided challenges in resolving this issue.

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Electronic course readings

UofA Library provides over 5000 digitised course readings

Publisher licences increasingly provide libraries with right to provide digital links or print course materials from their digital resources

Licence from CLL in NZ to digitise materials

Highly used digital service but students want both printed course books and digital versions

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Open Access Publishing and Institutional Repositories

Increasing view that research results are “locked up” by commercial publishers

Pressure to ensure that research results are made publicly (ie freely) available within a year

Growth in open-access institutional repositories as an alternative to commercial publishers

Search engines such as Google Scholar are improving access to content in institutional repositories

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Copyright Issues in an Online Teaching, Learning and Research Environment

Growth of student e-portfolios which enable self-reflection of their learning experiences

Digital submission of PhD and Masters theses to create web repositories

Many institutions are taking the approach that they will make digital portfolios or theses available via their websites with a notice that they will take down any material that publishers or other copyright owners believe breaches their rights