Learning Pathway

Online Navigational Support for Students within a Structured Flipped Classroom

Esther Fink, Marnie Holt, Jon Dawson

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First Year Engineering at the University of Queensland (UQ)

OLT project: REIMAGINING ENGINEERING EDUCATION

• RADICAL TRANSFORMATION: REIMAGINING ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH FLIPPING THE CLASSROOM IN A GLOBAL LEARNING PARTNERSHIP

• OLT project team headed up by University of Queensland(Carl Reidsema, Lydia Kavanagh and Philip Long)

First Year Engineering at UQ – our context

• Transition from High School (95%):moving from teacher centric to self-regulated learning

• A large (1200+ student) multidisciplinary design course

• Diverse cohort: 20% international (mostly Asia) 20% female

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Teaching Characteristics

• Project centred curriculum

• Team focused with individual and mutual accountabilities

• A cross disciplinary collaborative approach

• Realistic relevant projects & broad professional practice issues

• Discovery-based learning

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The Learning Pathway: Online Navigational Support for Students within the Structured Flipped Classroom

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The Learning Pathway – signposting a path to success

• Bridging the gap between online an face-to face spaces

• Structured online navigational interface“Need to know”“Need to do”

• Just-in-time information to reduce cognitive load

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The Learning Pathway – signposting a path to success

• Hyperlinks open in overlay

• “Mark reviewed” to visualise progress

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Results

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The Learning pathway – a scaffold

• Authentic learning is complex and ill-structured by nature

• Self-directed learning requires learners to self-organise, evaluate, and monitor their progress

• The Learning Pathway helped students adapt + successfully manage their development as learners

• The visual representation of the course requirements was instrumental to planning for (and achieving) success in the course.

Student reflectionsStudent Prior to ENG1200 (Week 2) End of ENGG1200 (Week 12)

A I personally struggle with planning and organisation and am already finding it rather difficult to stick to deadlines.

The thing that helped me the most … was the Blackboard Learning Pathway. Being able to view the information relevant to that current week, set out in a well-structured manner was very helpful.

B It is more difficult to organise a group because some tasks can only be completed after other sections have been finished.

I feel <that> the learning pathway on blackboard helped us to plan when to complete work as it contained all the due dates necessary in the one place.

C In terms of organisation and planning we’ve found it difficult to pin point commencement and completion dates … because we aren’t sure when we’ll be able to actually accomplish them, based on what knowledge, and resources are required.

I thought the ‘Learning Pathway’ was a good help and that the ‘You need to know’ and ‘You need to do’ were especially helpful for time management.

D It's week 2 and I am feeling quite overwhelmed and anxious about engg1200. Looking through the learning pathway on blackboard has revealed a mountain of work that is required of me every week and I am worried that I will fall behind.

The BB learning pathway helped outline the week’s goals which made it easier for me to complete tasks on time.

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Where to from here?

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Visualise learning and engagement

Need to know

Need to do

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