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Blended Learning in 2012

Blended Learning in 2012. Cris Comms making friends and changing learning outcomes one student at a time!. So my approach to teaching. Engage, explore, challenge, ask... Both a practitioner and academic War stories make your teaching real

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Blended Learning in 2012

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  1. Blended Learning in 2012 CrisComms making friends and changing learning outcomes one student at a time!

  2. So my approach to teaching... • Engage, explore, challenge, ask... • Both a practitioner and academic • War stories make your teaching real • Enforce work rules, submission deadlines are enforced! • Learn from your past experiences to make the student’s experience better • Always link research to teaching = my ADP in 2013 is thanks to research outputs but to test my blended teaching model • Change the lecture content every year, not update rework, rewrite find new examples • Find or write readings, use text books as supporting reference • Everything is changing, at a rapid rate, we must keep pace! • Do what fits you, but this is my story (and I love teaching)

  3. Using everything available • Traditional lectures, power point slides, but • Come out from behind the podium • Ask the students questions • Follow up posts and tweets • Invite and use wide range of contacts for guest lectures (skype, f2f, webinar) -but • Multi choice question task • Provides opportunity to see who/how many put real life with theory covered • Tweet and FB afterwards to reinforce messages

  4. Tutors and tutorials • All tutors are current practitioners = real world experience, forging better links with industry • Run every second week • Increase engagement during F2F • Set online tasks to be completed during the tute time when not at class (case studies and tasks drawn from practitioner activities) • Tweet and FB reminders and messages • FB is the more relaxed discussion about tasks, project activities, vUWS is the formal interaction and submission point for assessment

  5. vUWS the “GO TO” • Upload everything onto vUWS as key go to source • Online assessment activities undertaken ONLY in vUWS • All readings, lecture notes, supporting materials, case studies, additional links uploaded at the beginning of semester • All assignments must submit via Turnitin • Paperless drop box • But the students don’t like it, so I gave them more...

  6. CrisComms

  7. Simulation • I run an online simulation • 2 weeks of posts • Teams of 4 • vUWS / FB /Twitter • Blogs for each team • Constant support and engagement • Runs 8-6 daily

  8. I do • LOVE TEACHING • Check my emails, FB, Tweeter at least twice a day, 7 days a week and I respond • Use Cris as the ‘student’ asking questions and reinforcing key concepts • PRIA member so still have current links in industry • Believe that UWS graduates need industry champions, so I am one • ALWAYS link my research to my teaching • Attend a range of corporate and industry events each year • Network for student opportunities

  9. So • There is no one size fits all, but • In Public Relations all the units use some or all of these tools to present content • SFU of 5/5 and 4.8/5 in 2012 for learning tasks and overall satisfaction • Every semester ALL students friend Cris and often they forget she’s me = increased engagement, improved learning outcomes, students strive to learn and challenge WIN/WIN • 70% follow me on Twitter • 50% follow me on Pinterest DO WHAT FITS WITH YOU AND YOUR PERSONALITY BUT I BELIEVE THAT OUR STUDENTS WANT TO LEARN, SOMETIMES WE JUST NEED TO REMIND THE WHY 

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