Using Technology Innovation and Blended Delivery for Student-centred Learning in Large Undergraduate Classes

Abstract

[EN] Delivery methods of Higher Education classes have been scrutinised globally during the COVID-19 pandemic as academics and students were forced to shift rapidly to online delivery modes. In a post-COVID-19 scenario innovative teaching and learning approaches are required to rethink how large student cohorts can be educated online and on campus in a meaningful way, thereby reenvisioning the traditional lecture and its wider class context. This paper reports on the approach taken by the authors who restructured and redesigned an existing second-year undergraduate subject in an Australian architecture faculty. They collaborated with specialist learning designers to develop a blended mode of large-class delivery that simultaneously addresses their students’ desire to engage with subject content flexibly and asynchronously, whilst benefitting from in-person interaction in the classroom. At present, the new subject has been developed and it is being delivered in the current teaching semester.