• Mark Bullen
• Chris Golding
• Lawrence Parisotto
Impetus for Change
• Changing knowledge and skill requirements
• Lifelong learning
• Need for flexible access
• Reduced support for higher education
• Need to improve teaching
Challenges
• e-learning adoption
– Institutional barriers• Funding
• Faculty development
– The value of e-learning
What is E-Learning?
Where to start?
Strategic Model
Vision
“BCIT’s Technology-Enabled Knowledge (TEK) Initiative is about innovation and achieving new standards of excellence in education.”
Project Team Model
• Smart Learning Spaces Project • Learning
environment design that integrates educational technologies with curriculum, pedagogy
Learning Environment projects include
• enhance innovation in teaching and learning • connect BCIT to the
world • equip our learning
spaces with state of the art teaching technologies
Learning Environment goals
Smart learning space types
• innovation studios • smart lecture theatres• smart classrooms• smart computer labs• smart labs• smart shops
Circulating Technologies
• smart carts • smart shop carts • laptop carts• portable
videoconferencing units • “clickers”
Locating smart learning spaces
Wireless Locations
Learning Space Design
Challenge• most current learning spaces
designed before adoption of recent teaching and learning approaches (constructivism, social learning, collaborative learning, etc.)
• installed before presentation, distributed learning and mobile technologies were mainstream
Learning Space Design
Response• emphasis on new approaches to ensure that
learning spaces will be: - innovative, - flexible and - forward-looking to meet current and
future pedagogical and technology approaches
- more reflective of stakeholder needs
• Partnership
• Students
• Applied Research
• Catalytic Projects