{"id":8239,"date":"2018-04-16T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=8239"},"modified":"2018-04-16T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:58:10","slug":"what-ole-choice-will-you-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/what-ole-choice-will-you-make\/","title":{"rendered":"What OLE choice will you make?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cultural Competence OLE Unit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In June last year over 100 academics chose to embark on a bold expedition to turn concept into reality and create the Open Learning Environment<\/a> (OLE). With support and guidance from trusted educational designers along the way, these pioneers have created\u00a0new choices for all of us, and early feedback suggests they are on the right track.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In Semester 1 this year, the OLE became available to many undergraduate students \u2013 in particular those enrolled in\u00a0the new liberal studies\u00a0degrees which require OLE credit points.<\/p>\n

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The Science of Health and Wellbeing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A lesser known fact is all students (and staff) also have free access to the zero-credit-point component of the OLE \u2013 a suite of short, fully online, self-paced units that can be enrolled into at any time. While these standalone units don\u2019t count towards credit in a degree, participants receive a digital badge on completion.<\/p>\n

So how are we travelling?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Almost 75% of participants who have completed a zero-credit point OLE and responded to our survey agree or strongly agree the work has been intellectually rewarding, assessment tasks challenged them to learn and overall they were satisfied with the quality of the unit.<\/p>\n

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Research Management for Higher Degree Research Students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feedback also shows the University\u2019s aspiration to provide an OLE experience that caters for both professional needs and personal interest is being met. The following comments reflect themes from over 200 survey respondents to date:<\/p>\n