Stimulating and enabling learning environment
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Inclusive learning environments
Strategic Objective Four:
To have inclusive physical and virtual learning environments that stimulate learner engagement
What are our aspirations?
- Our learning environments are modern, vibrant, creative and welcoming
- Our learning environments represent the cultural diversity of our learners, staff, schools and programmes
- Learning resources are accessible to learners from diverse locations and through a variety of mobile devices
- Our off-campus staff participate seamlessly in on-campus meetings and activities
- Leading edge technologies seamlessly support learning in both virtual and physical learning environments
- Our elearning platforms, tools and services support blended delivery, fully online and distance delivery and open educational resources
- Our learners receive proactive, personalised and individual learning experiences and support
- All staff recognise and enact their role in proactively supporting learners
- Social connections are promoted through social spaces both on and off campus
- Physical classrooms are designed for flexibility and collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning
- Work places are recognised as learning environments by employers, learners and staff
- Our learners and staff use online tools, applications and social networks consistently and creatively for public and professional communication
- Technology is used to create communities of learners across international boundaries and to foster collaboration across multiple time zones, borders and cultures
- Our virtual campus enables easy access to library resources, courses and programmes, learning support, learner communities, learner personal information and technology support
- Our learning environments are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable (see SD strategic framework)
What will we do to achieve our aspirations?
- Involve learners in the design and development of our learning environments
- Include imagery and language across the physical and virtual learning environs that reflect our diverse learner communities
- Technology 'works', is continually updated and new technologies are regularly introduced
- The information technology infrastructure supports increasing blended, online, distance and open models of delivery
- Videoconferencing is accessible from all staff and classroom computers
- Ensure equitable access to learning resources and support for all learners (on campus, off campus, distance and fully online)
- Puna Kawa and other training rooms enable easy communication with multiple off site and on-site users
- Development a set of good practice principles for space design to guide all redevelopments and refurbishments
- Utilise 'big data' systems to support proactive, personalised and individual learning experiences and support
- Extend learner analytics to ensure that strategic decisions are informed by high quality data
- Stream and record key research presentations, public lectures and seminars and international guests, and edit for re-use as online teaching resources
- Provide continuing education opportunities for all staff to develop their own cultural competence and apply this in practice to create a safe and inclusive learning environment
- Enable eSimulation, eAssessment and ePortfolio technologies to support authentic work-based learning
- Develop digital literacy resources as open educational resources for staff and students
- Develop an integrated system for learner feedback that feeds results back to learners
How will we know we have been successful?
- Our learners express that they feel safe at Otago Polytechnic
- All learners express that they feel connected to Otago Polytechnic
- The diversity of our learners and staff increases, especially increases in Maori and Pacifica
- Our off-site staff are fully engaged in on-site activities
- Our learners access learning anytime and anywhere
- Our learners express that they feel supported at Otago Polytechnic
- Otago Polytechnic leads the sector in the AUSSE survey results
- Social media integrated elearning increases
- Physical classrooms are flexible, modern, creative, learner-centred and reflective of learner and programme diversity and culture
- Our eCampus will work seamlessly to meet learner needs