Prior to the pandemic, how engaged with students at scale was defined through a lens of modality; the affordances of space, of nodes of engagement, the capacities of a timetable, the levels of comfort with didactic engagement and variability of location. This has seen many academics rethinking the nature of the lecture, moving them from the physical to the virtual. Online lectures require a different skillset to design and deliver, and different methods and metrics to evaluate their effectiveness. They also present significant opportunity for units to leverage the affordances of the medium and to share the perspectives from and stories from a diverse community of voices. To help the academics and students at the Business School deploy and enhance their approaches to the ‘pre-recorded lecture’, we have developed a set of design principles built from our Connected Learning at Scale approach. This presentation will share these principles in the context of how they have been deployed across 85 different units at the Business School. It will look at the critical importance of agency in the design of a post-pandemic education, where the lessons of the pivot can be used to design a new normal for teaching and learning at scale.
Teaching@Sydney