Background
RMIT’s University’s College of Business offers innovative academic programs that align with the Ready for Life and Work 2020 strategy. Regular reviews of programs and quality initiatives, along with ensuring 21st century skills and the application of digital pedagogies, ensures the College of Business is providing programs and courses that are learner centred, equivalent across transnational locations and modes, constructively aligned and mapped to industry and professional accreditation standards.
With 22,000 students, onshore and offshore, on-campus and off-campus, undergraduate business programs are central to the College of Business. In order to impact the First Year Experience, the 8 common core courses in the Bachelor of Business have been the primary focus of a number of strategic projects for 2015-2016.
Blended Learning & Authentic Assessment (BLAA) – CoB Strategic Project 2016
The Blended Learning & Authentic Assessment (BLAA) Project 2016 focussed on applying collaobrative learning applications and a blended approach to aid in the design of learning resources and assessment activities, with the primary aim of increasing student engagement with key course concepts. The 8 common core coordinators were given the task to creatively use educational technologies to enhance the quality of student learning in their courses.
In the video below Dr. Swee Hoon Chuah, Course Coordinator Prices & Market, discusses the resources the course team developed as part of the BLAA project for delivery semester 1 2017.
Key points:
- Videos developed to add ‘life’ to key concepts, help explain complex ideas and enhance student engagement.
- Curated WWW resources which show real-world relevance and application of course concepts
- Students ‘play’ educational (online) games during tutorials as practical demonstrations of how concepts are derived and/or how concepts are applied.
- Authentic assessment tasks incorporate visit to a market as a class activity, preparation of a report on a different market phenomena and presentation of report in tutorials.
ECON1020 Online Environment Continuous Improvement: 2015-2016
A review of the 8 common courses online environment was conducted at the start semester 1 of 2015, at the end of the BQS project – semester 2, 2015 and at the end of the BLAA project – semester 1, 2017. The following slides are an example of the use of educational technologies to increase student engagement in the online environment.
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