Teaching Fellows and blended and flexible learning design

Brilliant learning design & opportunities - outside the institution

One of the challeges we face in HE today is that the competition out there is sometimes brilliant! There are some fabulous learning opportunities offered often for free, by others passionate about providing learning opportunities every bit as engaged, research based, critical and leading edge as what we do, inside the university. We can no longer consider ourselves as having a monopoly - and we can learn from these external events as one way of understanding how good we need to be.

Here is a great example - the TEDxSydney 2010 event. Great speakers, and the option to join the forum in person, through YouTube, through radio, and also through satellite events. For example in my own local area there is a satellite event at a local neighbourhood centre. So I could combine virtual participation with local community participation. Brilliant stuff!