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Breaking ¡Through ¡ ¡ Professor ¡Nick ¡Klomp ¡

Deputy ¡Vice-­‑Chancellor ¡ (Educa=on) ¡

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• The World Around Us
• Breakthrough: Strategic Plan 2013-2017
• SAFFIRE
• Education Plan: SSSRP, PACP, FLIP & UC Flex
• UCx
• Reputation

Overview

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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

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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

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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

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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

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UC Load plan 2013-2017

Ambitious targets in: international, partners, PG fee-paying

¡

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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 ¡

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Breakthrough: Strategic Plan 2013-2017

Three Foundation Plans to support delivery of Strategic Plan:

• Education Plan
• Research Plan
• International Plan

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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.

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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

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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.

SAFFIRE: supporting the Strategic Plan

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Relationships

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Plans to support the Education Plan, UCx, and the Strategic Plan

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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.

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UCx – University of Canberra eXperience (example)

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UCx - delivery

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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

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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.

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FLIP

• Enabling flexibility
• Enabling technology
• Enabling curriculum development and innovation
• Enabling innovation (policy and process review)
• Enabling people (cultural change working party)

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Enabling flexibility

• Place
• Time
• Pathways
• Intensity
• Teaching strategies
• Mode of delivery

(Funded through SAFFIRE and broader SAF funding)

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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)

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Enabling technology

• Scenario based learning (create problem-based learning activities
• nline)
• 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)

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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

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UC Flex

• UC Flex is comprised of the courses and units that are available to University
• f 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.

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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

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UC Flex

• Some already offered
• Some new
• Some developing
• Some through partners, some online only
• Under UC Flex banner for marketing and recognition

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World ranked as a young university

Ranking in the Times Higher Education (THE) Top 100 under 50 by 2017

* Who is already there in 2013?

Rank Institution 36 Macquarie 40 Newcastle 43 Wollongong 48 University of Sth Aust 57 Murdoch 66 Deakin Rank Institution 71 Flinders 77 Charles Darwin 83 UTS 86 Griffith 87 Curtin 88 Latrobe

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Building reputation

• Attributes of reputation

– Intangible asset, but has a $ value – A judgement made about us (who may or may not have direct experience) – Influences action (eg enrolment, desire to work at UC) – Differentiates one ‘product’ (UC or a UC course) from others (other Australian universities, international universities/providers) – Hard to build (long term investment), easy to lose (can happen overnight)

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A reputation for what?

• UCx (positive and professional)
• UC Flex (access choice and flexibility)
• Support services (a great student experience)
• Quality-focused teaching and learning culture (intellectually stimulating for

students and staff)

• Innovative, flexible, research-led, work readiness focus (a great place to

teach, research, work)

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Why quality and reputation matter

from a student focus group April 2013 (Courtesy of SEASU)

Where the course has room for electives word of mouth on the quality of the lecturer/ staff is a strong motivator to select a particular unit or not. Students will select a class based on lecturer reputation and the quality of sessional and tutors, and perception of the relevance of course material/topics.

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Why quality and reputation matter

Australian Government International Student Survey 2012 Overview Report (April 2013) The top five factors that influenced international HE respondents’ choice to study in Australia were found to be:

• Quality of teaching (with 96% of respondents identifying this factor as important or very

important);

• Reputation of a qualification from the institution (94%);
• Reputation of the institution (93%);
• Personal safety (92%); and
• Reputation of Australian education system (92%).
• Seventy-seven per cent of HE respondents to the 2012 ISS reported that they would

encourage others to apply to their university.

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Your contribution: Leadership

• Leadership

– Academic quality, teaching and learning quality – Driving innovation – Openness to change, flexibility – Mentoring and developing academic staff – Valuing/guiding/mentoring our students, valuing student experience, student outcomes

Outcome: builds reputation

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Your contribution: Build relationships

• Build relationships

– Across and within faculties: team teaching, interdisciplinarity, sharing good practice, sharing resources, collaborative research – With the student body that you teach, mentor and supervise – Across institutions (national and international): peer networks, sharing good practice, collaborative proposals for external funding

Outcome: builds reputation

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Your contribution: Build your reputation

• Building your reputation

– Establish (and actively maintain) an online professional identity in your field of research, and in teaching and learning (LinkedIn (groups), Academia.edu, Twitter, Expert directory) – Contribute to appropriate communities of practice, professional learning networks – Promote your own and UC’s research, professional practice, innovation through your professional and international networks

Outcome: builds your reputation = UC’s reputation

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Outcomes

• Great opportunities for our students
• Exciting and stimulating teaching and learning

environment

• Support and acknowledgement of staff innovation

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CLASS Project

• Centralised Learning Analytics and Student

Support

• Trial this Winter Term
• Roll-out next semester
• Student retention