Breaking ¡Through ¡ ¡ Professor ¡Nick ¡Klomp ¡ Deputy ¡Vice-‑Chancellor ¡ (Educa=on) ¡
Overview � • The World Around Us • Breakthrough : Strategic Plan 2013-2017 • SAFFIRE • Education Plan: SSSRP, PACP, FLIP & UC Flex • UCx • Reputation CRICOS #00212K
The World Around Us � � • Technology: mobile/tablets/smartphones • Broadband: mobile/NBN/ubiquitous • Examples (from ABS) – 12.2 million internet subscribers in Australia (Dec 2012, growing at 5% annually, 98% of these are broadband) – 17.4 million mobile phone subscribers – Approx 1.2 billion active broadband subscriptions in the world CRICOS #00212K
The Higher Education World Around Us � � • ANU – edX MOOCs • Deakin - DeakinConnect – MOOC + distance • LaTrobe – iTunes U ‘The Roman World’ • Monash – free online courses through FutureLearn (UK Open University) • QUT and UQ – assessing MOOC opportunities • Swinburne : Swinburne Online – courses through SEEK Learning, MOOCs to come, MathsCasts (iTunesU) • UNE – uneOpen: free online units + distance • University of Melbourne – 7 MOOCs: Coursera • UNSW – Open online course through OpenLearning • UTS – UTS Online: flexible and distance • UWA – Free online course through Stanford’s Class2Go platform • Open Universities Australia - Open2Study (free online education platform inc Macquarie & RMIT) • Edith Cowan, Charles Darwin, Southern Cross, Curtin, CSU, USQ offer distance and intensive CRICOS #00212K
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Breakthrough: Strategic Plan 2013-2017 � Three objectives: 1. to ensure UC is competitive within Australia through improved attractiveness to students nationally and strengthened course viability; 2. to build a truly international UC that can thrive in a new era of globalised higher education and research; 3. to achieve world ranking as a young university CRICOS #00212K
Breakthrough: Strategic Plan 2013-2017 � 16,500 EFTSL by 2017 • Maintain existing student enrolment numbers at Bruce • Retention • Develop new markets (additional student enrolments) via: • International (articulation and new partners) • Australian Polytechnic Network (articulation and new partners) • Attract new additional students via flexible offerings, distance/online education, new postgraduate courses, etc CRICOS #00212K
UC Load plan 2013-2017 � Ambitious targets in: international, partners, PG fee-paying ¡ 2013 ¡ 2014 ¡ 2015 ¡ 2016 ¡ 2017 ¡ ¡ Target 2018 ¡ ¡ % Growth ¡ International ¡ 2,369 ¡ 2,933 ¡ 3,506 ¡ 4,105 ¡ 5,000 ¡ ¡ 5,000 ¡ ¡ 111.1 ¡ UCC domestic ¡ 252 ¡ 280 ¡ 296 ¡ 322 ¡ 320 ¡ ¡ 320 ¡ ¡ 27.0 ¡ Partners CSP ¡ 200 ¡ 763 ¡ 912 ¡ 1,022 ¡ 1,250 ¡ ¡ 1,250 ¡ ¡ 525.0 ¡ UG CSP ¡ 7,191 ¡ 7,281 ¡ 7,371 ¡ 7,461 ¡ 7,500 ¡ ¡ 7,500 ¡ ¡ 4.3 ¡ PG CSP ¡ 489 ¡ 617 ¡ 617 ¡ 617 ¡ 620 ¡ ¡ 620 ¡ ¡ 26.8 ¡ PG Dom Fee ¡ 424 ¡ 724 ¡ 1,024 ¡ 1,324 ¡ 1,550 ¡ ¡ 1,550 ¡ ¡ 265.6 ¡ HDR domestic ¡ 204 ¡ 209 ¡ 214 ¡ 219 ¡ 250 ¡ ¡ 250 ¡ ¡ 22.4 ¡ Total domestic ¡ 8,760 ¡ 9,874 ¡ 10,434 ¡ 10,965 ¡ 11,490 ¡ ¡ 11,490 ¡ ¡ 31.2 ¡ Total Load ¡ 11,129 ¡ 12,807 ¡ 13,940 ¡ 15,070 ¡ 16,490 ¡ ¡ 16,490 ¡ ¡ 48.2 ¡ CRICOS #00212K
Breakthrough: Strategic Plan 2013-2017 � Three Foundation Plans to support delivery of Strategic Plan: • Education Plan • Research Plan • International Plan CRICOS #00212K
� Education Plan guiding principles � Student-centred : Our policies and practices focus on enhancing the student experience. • Engaging : We strive for excellence in the delivery of a high quality student experience. • Adaptive : We respond to the needs of our students, our staff, and our community. • World class : We are committed to delivering a world class teaching and learning environment. • Innovative : Innovation in teaching and learning is enabled and valued. CRICOS #00212K
Education Plan goals � • Increase student enrolments • Improve student experience • Improve student satisfaction • Improve student retention rate • Pursue an ambitious student equity and access agenda • Improve and enhance University of Canberra’s reputation CRICOS #00212K
SAF FIRE : supporting the Strategic Plan � Flexibility, Innovation, Retention, Engagement $12 million grant as part of successful Structural Adjustment Fund bid Aim : creation of a curriculum that will support flexible and innovative learning approaches which fit the requirements of students; course redesign to achieve teaching excellence; and measures to ensure that supporting learning technologies and student support systems are in place. CRICOS #00212K
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Plans to support the Education Plan, UCx, and the Strategic Plan � CRICOS #00212K
UCx � • UCx (the University of Canberra eXperience) provides a student- centred framework for considering service delivery to students with the goal of making a student’s overall experience a positive one, delivered professionally. • UCx brings together all activities of the University that have a significant impact on student support, satisfaction, engagement and retention. CRICOS #00212K
UCx – University of Canberra eXperience (example) � CRICOS #00212K
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Student Support, Satisfaction � & Retention Plan � • To increase student load: measure – retention rate • To improve student experience: measure - UES • To improve student satisfaction: measure USS Student Experience Scale by unit and by faculty • To improve student retention rate: measure – retention rate, monitor and respond to failure rates by unit CRICOS #00212K
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Flexible Learning Innovation Plan (FLIP) � Guiding principles • World class : We are committed to delivering a world class teaching and learning environment. • Innovative : Innovation in teaching and learning is enabled and valued. CRICOS #00212K
FLIP � • Enabling flexibility • Enabling technology • Enabling curriculum development and innovation • Enabling innovation (policy and process review) • Enabling people (cultural change working party) CRICOS #00212K
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Enabling flexibility � • Place • Time • Pathways • Intensity • Teaching strategies • Mode of delivery (Funded through SAFFIRE and broader SAF funding) CRICOS #00212K
Enabling curriculum development � and innovation � • Faculty-generated initiatives • Funding role of Associate Dean (Innovation) • Providing access to additional educational designers • Flexibility in ways of studying within units and courses • Range of delivery options – greater student choice of when, where, how • Collaborative and peer-review models • Goal of increasing student load (Funded through SAFFIRE) CRICOS #00212K
Enabling technology � • Scenario based learning (create problem-based learning activities online) • Mobile learning applications (student friendly mobile platform) • Virtual classroom (Blackboard Collaborate trial underway) • Moodle enhancements (digital resource management, Mahara integration) • Centralised Learning Analytics for Student Support (Gradebook integration with Callista, development of a student metric) (Funded through SAFFIRE) CRICOS #00212K
Existing student use of LearnOnline � UC students (in one year) using LearnOnline (Moodle LMS): • around 4 million log-ins , at all hours of the day and all days of the year – 75% of logins are from off campus , from 130 countries – 12% of logins are from mobile devices • spent nearly 900,000 hours online in their Moodle sites (14 K unique users per month, 13 K per week) • completed nearly 100,000 online quizzes • Electronically submitted nearly 140,000 assignments • accessed their unit outlines more than 400,000 times • viewed their lecture recordings more than 1 million times • created more than 20,000 portfolio pages CRICOS #00212K
UC Flex � • UC Flex is comprised of the courses and units that are available to University of Canberra students which deliver on one or more dimensions of flexibility. • UC Flex is the outcome of the SAFFIRE project as it supports the achievement of the Strategic Plan goal to ‘Expand and improve flexible learning at UC’. • UC Flex provides an innovative blend of online learning, flexible, and intensive study sessions. CRICOS #00212K
UC Flex – 2014: partners, online, intensive, mixed � Business Administration (inc MBA), Coaching and Exercise Science, Commerce, Cyberlaw and Policy, Education, Environmental Health, Executive Administration, Fashion (Apparel Engineering and Design), Forensic Science, Forensic Security, Graphic Design, Hospitality Management, Information Technology, Interior Architecture, International Business, International Revenue Administration, Juris Doctor, Justice Studies, Marketing Management, Nursing, Screen Production, Social Media and Public Engagement, Sports Management, Strategic Communication, Web Design and Production CRICOS #00212K
UC Flex � • Some already offered • Some new • Some developing • Some through partners, some online only • Under UC Flex banner for marketing and recognition CRICOS #00212K
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