1. The Flexible
Learning Institute
Aspirations
Mike Keppe!
The Flexible Learning Institute
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2. Vision
To inspire best practice in blended and
flexible learning
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3. Mission
promote excellence and innovation in blended and flexible learning
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4. Mission
promote the scholarship of learning and teaching to inform and
transform educational practice
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5. Mission
contribute to conversations on best practice in blended and flexible
learning both nationally and internationally
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6. Key Objectives
KEY OBJECTIVE 1 - Lead and develop innovative and transformative practices in
blended and flexible learning
KEY OBJECTIVE 2 - Promote and share good practice in blended and flexible
learning
KEY OBJECTIVE 3 - Initiate and foster research into blended and flexible learning
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7. Values
Inclusive: We value diversity and learning opportunities that promote equity.
Innovative: We value emerging ideas, strategies and technologies that add value to
the student learning experience.
Transformative: We value the questioning of assumptions, beliefs to consciously and
thoughtfully redesign the learning and teaching experience.
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8. Values
Interdisciplinary: We value learning and teaching experiences that cross discipline and
content boundaries.
Collaborative: We value best practice by contributing to conversations and scholarship
about best practice in blended and flexible learning both nationally and internationally.
Sustainable: We value integrated, generative and future-focussed strategies to maintain
leadership and best practice in blended and flexible learning.
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9. FLI Initiatives
The Vision, Mission and Objectives of the FLI will be achieved through the following seven
Initiatives:
BLENDED AND FLEXIBLE LEARNING STANDARDS
THE ASPIRATIONAL FRAMEWORK
BLENDED AND FLEXIBLE LEARNING GOOD PRACTICE GUIDELINES
STRATEGIC CHANGE
STRATEGIC RESEARCH
TEACHING FELLOWSHIP SCHEME
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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10. 6STANDARDS@FLI
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11. Risk versus Aspiration
The Blended and Flexible Learning Standards (BFL Standards) provide CSU with an
institutional framework, risk and quality improvement strategy to enable CSU to
continuously maintain national leadership in flexible and distance education.
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12. Recommendation
That a definition be established for blended and flexible learning that encompasses online
learning, flexible learning and distance education.
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13. Flexible Learning
Flexible learning” provides opportunities to improve the student learning
experience through flexibility in time, pace, place (physical, virtual, on-
campus, off-campus), mode of study (print-based, face-to-face, blended,
online), teaching approach (collaborative, independent), forms of assessment
and staffing. It may utilise a wide range of media, environments, learning
spaces and technologies for learning and teaching.
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14. Blended & Flexible Learning
“Blended and flexible learning” is a design approach that examines the
relationships between flexible learning opportunities, in order to optimise
student engagement and equivalence in learning outcomes regardless of
mode of study (Keppell, 2010).
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15. Purpose of the BFL Standards
The purpose of the BFL Standards is to establish at CSU a clear and
consistent Standard, known and used by all CSU staff,
concerning the policy and practice of learning and teaching.
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16. 6BFL Standards
1. BFL policy and practice at all levels of the University
2. Continuous improvement, quality and consistency in blended and flexible
learning
3. Blended and Flexible Learning Good Practice Guidelines (BFLGPG)
4. Professional development for blended and flexible learning
5. Learning outcome equivalency
6. Scholarship
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17. Dimensions of 6standards
BFL policy and practice at all levels of the University
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Continuous improvement, quality and consistency in blended and flexible
learning 9 Dimensions
Blended and Flexible Learning Good Practice Guidelines (BFLGPG)
10 Dimensions
Professional development for blended and flexible learning
5 Dimensions
Learning outcome equivalency 10 Dimensions
Scholarship 3 Dimensions
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19. http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/flexible-learning/
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