Partnerships and pedagogy: transforming the BA Online

Lloyd, C., Herb, A., Kilmister, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8988-8437 and Coleborne, C. (2021) Partnerships and pedagogy: transforming the BA Online. In: 7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'21), 22-23 Jun 2021, València, Spain. doi: 10.4995/head21.2021.13001

Abstract/Summary

There has been much written recently round the “digital revolution” of universities (Nascimento Cunha et al., 2020). Indeed, in 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need for universities to adapt and adopt new technological tools for teaching and learning, as both the global world we live in changed, and as students adapted to the continually evolving digital landscape. The BA Online is a new interdisciplinary online presence for the humanities and social sciences, and includes a focus on constructive alignment, innovative learning objects, and social learning. The semester-long courses were built as a supported social learning experience that is purposefully constructed with a narrative. This article reveals how the BA Online project was realised through the use of partnerships, particularly that of the university learning designers who worked very closely with both the online learning platform FutureLearn and academic staff in curriculum design and course transformation.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/124941
Identification Number/DOI	10.4995/head21.2021.13001
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Central Services > Academic and Governance Services > Centre for Quality Support and Development (CQSD)
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