The Media Department at Coventry University has developed a framework of highly innovative teaching, learning and creative-practice spaces – virtual and physical. This paper will present the challenges we have faced, and the success we have encountered from the creation of a series of ‘alternative spaces’ for learning, which address the changing landscape of 21st Century education . Students and staff have engaged with the spaces in different ways through a range of, discipline-led initiatives. These initiatives have led to open educational classes, interactive blog spaces, online presentations of student work and international collaborations across courses within the media department. We have recently developed a project that will enable students to engage more actively in the process so that they can create and develop student-led teaching and learning environments. This project will consider the spaces in which students are comfortable and prefer to learn as well as creating opportunities to challenge and question their learning styles. The impact of the project extends beyond the teaching and learning environment and seeks to empower the students: by placing them at the heart of the process we hope that they will take more responsibility for their own learning, become more entrepreneurial in their approach to their own education and develop lifelong skills that extend far beyond the classroom. With geographical barriers removed, educators have an opportunity to enlighten and empower students, through innovative, open and shared teaching and learning practices, to find their voice and positively contribute to a culturally rich and globally connected world. Today’s teaching and learning should stimulate debate and encourage discovery; this paper places the student’s ownership, engagement and collaborative learning at the heart of that journey. Students, working as researchers and co-creators will develop collaborative, connected and technology-enabled models for higher education.

1. INTED 2013
7th International Technology, Education, and Development Conference - Valencia
4th - 6th March, 2013
THE EXPANDED CLASSROOM:
THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY IN A
CONNECTED WORLD
Jonathan Shaw & Jacqui Bleetman
#INTED2013

2. Jonathan Shaw
Associate Head of Department for Media (Innovation, Profile & Research)
www.jonathan-shaw.com #INTED2013

3. What is a MOOC? #INTED2013

4. What is a MOOC? #INTED2013

5. “...the challenge as we see it is to
invent and institute approaches to
Open Education that are pragmatic
yet critical, ambitious about their
visibility yet inventive and
experimental.”
We Are All Game-Changers Now: Open Education
A Study in Disruption #INTED2013
What is a MOOC?

6. livingbooksaboutlife.org #INTED2013

7. “
OCh
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8. phonar.org #INTED2013

9. “
1948 - 2012
ABC, CBS, NBC TV networks
broadcast c.1.6 Million hours of
programme content
2012
1.6 Million hours uploaded every
6 months to
Mashable #INTED2013

10. Cisco #INTED2013

11. Voltolina #INTED2013

12. “
Wesch, “A vision of students today” #INTED2013

13. Image: Agaumont #INTED2013

14. Times Higher App #INTED2013

15. The Conductor: Rattle #INTED2013

16. “
Develop a
relationship which is
more based on our
discipline rather
than this hierarchy
of student and
lecturer
Sean Carroll
Interview for Sony Ericsson #INTED2013

17. 21st Century Photographer #INTED2013

18. We asked some questions? #INTED2013

19. Unexpected happened! #INTED2013

21. #INTED2013

22. Small screen: phonar.org #INTED2013

23. The ‘Reading List’ is now the most visited post in the class...(Friends of Phonar Book List) #INTED2013

24. Before the doors of the Classroom are open, the conversations have already begun... #INTED2013

25. #INTED2013

26. #INTED2013

27. David Campbell, Director World Press Photo Multimedia Research Project (Image: Dean O’Brien) #INTED2013

28. Hybrid Approach: The Physical Classroom #INTED2013

29. Hybrid Approach: The Flexible/Digital Classroom #INTED2013

30. #INTED2013

33. “…giving the students a sense of
ownership of not only the learning
tools but also the learning
process....integrating their own
personality and social media into
their working environment in ways
that are leading to innovative
production”
Matthew Hawkins
#INTED2013

34. “If you mention a film that I
haven’t heard about, I look it up on
IMDB[.com] and I add that film to
my watch list.”
Charles Cumberlidge
#INTED2013

35. “Rather than making notes and
then applying the tasks later, they
are starting the task on their
laptop and working through the
task asking questions as they
progress.”
Paul Adkins
#INTED2013

36. “ (55%) (59%) (76%)
88%
Media Department overall student
satisfaction NSS 2009 to 2012
#INTED2013

37. Text Laurillard, D (2012) Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogic
D. Sless: design model

38. “You can take work anywhere and
make it look more professional. On
a Journalism and Media course my
work is a reflection of me. I’m
using software and resources that
are going to be very important to
me in future roles”
Zain Luke Ali
#INTED2013

39. “
Things make a noise and it goes in
your ears and makes your brain
wake up!
But more importantly...Lily Shaw #INTED2013

40. Jonathan Shaw
j.shaw@coventry.ac.uk
@time_motion
Presentation available at:
http://bit.ly/WFOeqF
Jacqui Bleetman
j.bleetman@coventry.ac.uk
www.disruptivemedia.org.uk
#INTED2013