Developing Integrated Learning Environments for Improved Outcomes

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Sara Hillis Ousby ◽  
Sam Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Self Authorship

This chapter addresses the use of design thinking in created integrated learning environments where student learning is captured across curricular and co-curricular experiences. The chapter outlines the current context and trends in higher education that demonstrate the need for integrated learning environments and the need to assess experiential learning by centering students in the process. Centering students in the process of designing integrated learning environments empowers them on a path of self-authorship where students identify the goals of learning, how that learning will be documented, and how experiences scaffold to ensure students move from introduction to mastery of skills. The chapter concludes with examples from campuses that have created integrated environments where learning is documented and recorded, including examples of comprehensive learner records and a fully integrated bachelor's degree program.

scholarly journals Experiential and Integrated Learning Environments – Teaching Urban Design Studio at Curtin University

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Maria Mancini ◽  
Tanja Glusac
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Learning Collaborative ◽  
The Government

Experiential Learning and Integrated Learning Environments in Architecture is a pedagogic project based on action learning (Revans, 1980) that challenges the traditional design studio teaching approach to Architectural/Urban Design and builds on Dewey (1939) and Kolb (1984) theories of experiential learning. An innovative model of teaching Urban Design to Master of Architecture students has been trailed for the first time in 2018, when the studio was set in the City of Bayswater, and has been refined over the course of 2019 in two separate study periods – Study Period 1 (Rome/Milan Study Tour) and Semester 2. This model provides students with an opportunity to collaboratively learn from and re-design the existing urban environments by immersing themselves in the very context they are studying. The proximity of the classroom to the urban setting presented an opportunity for students to draw comparisons and analysis between national and international examples and that of the surrounding urban milieu. Additionally, advanced technology supportive of distributed learning environment and intense collaboration with industry such as Hassell, Element and The Office of the Government Architect (OGA), coupled with opportunities to visit various practices, provided deeper insights and an all rounded approach to learning and engaging with architecture. Keywords: experiential learning; collaborative learning environments; architecture, urban design

Designing Meaningful Learning Environments in a Work-Integrated-Learning Course Using a DOCC Design

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kathy Jordan ◽  
Jennifer Elsden-Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
First Year ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Distributed Framework ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Work Integrated Learning

As Higher Education increasingly moving towards a plethora of blended and fully online learning, questions are raised around the space and place of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL). This chapter reports on one institution's efforts to design and deliver a WIL course in a Teacher Education program adopting an open and distributed framework. The redesigned course, Orientation to Teaching, was a first year course in a Bachelor of Education (Primary) program at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The redesign of the course was underpinned by a Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) design and as the workplace also became the site of learning, the theory of effective WIL curriculum (Orrell, 2011) also informed the design. This chapter examines the complexity of DOCC design in WIL contexts and uses Khan's 8 dimensions to frame the discussion.

scholarly journals e-Assessment for learning and performativity in higher education: A case for existential learning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Charteris ◽  
Fran Quinn ◽  
Mitchell Parkes ◽  
Peter Fletcher ◽  
Vicente Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Assessment For Learning ◽  
Online Learning Environments ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Education Courses

<p class="Normal1">This paper provides a critical and contextualised exploration of assessment for learning (AfL) as an important area of scholarship in higher education, particularly in online learning environments. Although AfL can speak to a range of education discourses, the specific focus here is on the performativity and experiential learning discourses around individual and collective notions of AfL in online settings (e-AfL). We argue that e-AfL practices that emphasise performativity and are used primarily for technicist purposes impoverish their potential to promote learning. We explore the existential notion that e-AfL can transcend formulaic and procedural interpretations of formative assessment in higher education. Rich, divergent approaches to e-AfL can support students in higher education courses to develop their funds of identity, thereby enhancing learner reflexivity and agency.</p>

Designing Engaging Instruction for the Adult Learners

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Karen Weller Swanson ◽  
Geri Collins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Adult Learner ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Open Learning Environments ◽  
Engaging Instruction ◽  
Self Authorship

Instructional design for the adult learner is a growing field of study in higher education. Engaging instruction for adult learners will be defined in this chapter in two ways: designing courses using the significant learning taxonomy, and a paradigm shift to support faculty to involve student participation. The discussion of engaging instruction will be presenting using several research-based foundations such as Baxter-Magolda's self-authorship, Palmer's open learning environments, and Fink's significant learning taxonomy.

Designing Engaging Instruction for the Adult Learners

2018 ◽  
pp. 1432-1440
Author(s):  
Karen Weller Swanson ◽  
Geri Collins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Adult Learner ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Open Learning Environments ◽  
Engaging Instruction ◽  
Self Authorship

Instructional design for the adult learner is a growing field of study in higher education. Engaging instruction for adult learners will be defined in this chapter in two ways: designing courses using the significant learning taxonomy, and a paradigm shift to support faculty to involve student participation. The discussion of engaging instruction will be presenting using several research-based foundations such as Baxter-Magolda's self-authorship, Palmer's open learning environments, and Fink's significant learning taxonomy.

Re-Imagining the Future of Experiential Learning Through a Campus-Wide Design Thinking Initiative

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Karen L. Sanzo ◽  
Tancy Vandecar-Burdin ◽  
Tisha M. Paredes ◽  
Lisa Mayes ◽  
Brian Payne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Initial Data ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
State Council ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
The Future ◽  
Old Dominion University ◽  
Thinking Process

In 2020, Old Dominion University was awarded a State Council for Higher Education for Virginia grant in order to re-imagine the future of experiential learning at the institution. This campus-wide effort is led by a taskforce to create a vision, framework, and plan for the future of experiential learning at Old Dominion University. The taskforce is composed of stakeholders that include students, faculty, administrators, and community and business partners. In this chapter, the authors report on process and progress, with particular attention to the first three phases of the design thinking process. In the empathy phase, they have engaged in design thinking sprints, hosted monthly taskforce meetings, engaged in an exhaustive review of current experiential learning activities, and deployed surveys of relevant stakeholders. During the defining phase, they analyzed initial data, synthesized their collective empathy work, and identified root issues to craft their “How might we” questions to inform the ideation work. In this chapter, they also share the results of the ideation phase.

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