MANAGING MULTIPLE MODES: IEAA PATHWAYS NETWORK CONVERSATION

Friday 16 July 2021

FORUM WELCOME

2pm (AEST) Andrew Foley Convener, IEAA Pathways Network; College Director and Principal, La Trobe College

SESSION 1A

2:05pm (AEST) DITCHING THE DISRUPTION – PROVIDING AN INNOVATIVE FLEXIBLE SOLUTION TO SUPPORT A HIGH-QUALITY STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Student flexibility is integral in pathway programs where uncertainty still rules the day. Flexible Learning, a new learning and teaching delivery model, was implemented across the Navitas University Partnership Australasia (UPA) Division. This innovative and practical strategy enables students to commence or continue studies and to pivot to online or on-campus when needed.

Flexible Learning – adapted from Beatty’s HyFlex model – offers students genuine flexibility in their learning experience while ensuring minimal disruption to classes at a time when on-campus classes may no longer be guaranteed.

This presentation will discuss the implementation of the Flexible Learning model, including the educational technologies and professional development program designed to support staff in the redevelopment of their units. The session will also explore the value proposition for pathway providers and the challenges and learning opportunities experienced with learning and teaching when implementing at scale. The presenter will share feedback gathered from research and evaluation of the Flexible Learning model as well as best practice case studies.

PRESENTATIONS Dr Georgie Avard Senior Manager, Learning and Teaching Navitas University Partnerships Australasia (UPA) Division

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SESSION 1B

2:25pm (AEST) THE FUTURE OF PATHWAY PROGRAMS – LEADING THE WAY WITH THE ENTRENCHMENT MODEL

Pathway programs allow international students to either prime themselves in terms of English proficiency to meet entry requirements and transition into their desired VET, university or programs or will count as credits toward their respective degree.

Traditionally, these programs were conducted in isolation and although they were designed to equip students with the tools required to succeed in their tertiary studies, entering the realm of academic life in an English-speaking country can still be daunting for some students.

The future of pathway programs lies in the provision of continual nurturing and support through the development of an Entrenchment model developed in collaboration and consultation with academics of the respective further studies courses. This goes together with the development of innovative and affordable online programs at scale to revolutionise global access to tertiary education by leveraging new technologies.

This presentation will shed light on the future of pathway programs; how they are developed in an innovative manner; and how they will become an integral part of not only priming students, but supporting them holistically throughout their journey.

PRESENTATIONS Thorsten Wilhelm General Manager, ELICOS Education Centre of

SESSION 2

2:55pm (AEST) GOVERNMENT UPDATE

Details to be confirmed.

BREAK

3:05pm (AEST) Short 5-minute break.

SESSION 3

3:10pm (AEST) REIMAGINING TEAM-TEACHING ONLINE

Team-teaching is a course delivery where two educators share teaching responsibilities regarding co-planning, co-teaching and co-marking. Teachers have an equal and active role in content delivery and utilise their complementary teaching styles. Even though the concept of team teaching is not new, the approach to this experience was unique in contrasting the face-to-face team-teaching experience to teaching online. Teachers developed collaborative teaching skills aiming to improve student engagement, attendance, results and educators’ professional development in both contexts. The culturally diverse community and the interactive approach to the learning process helped students articulate into their chosen pathway.

During the workshop, teachers will share interactive activities that prove to be successful and applicable to online teaching. These include stations delivery for

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teaching four aspects of critical analysis; differentiated delivery for teaching three levels of reading comprehension; multimodality for student engagement; and taking the role of a student by teachers to model teamwork.

Jane Stewart Deputy Convener, IEAA Pathways Network; Director, Foundation Year,

Emilija Malinova Foundation Studies English Teacher RMIT Training

Anne Motti Foundation Studies English Teacher RMIT Training

SESSION 4

3:35pm (AEST) REPOSITIONING AND REVALUING PATHWAYS: HOW PATHWAY PROVIDERS NEED TO GET AWAY FROM 'IF YOU CAN'T GET INTO UNI’

With more and more providers coming into the education sector, it opens more and more options for students to consider. More importantly, the notion of 'If you can't get into Uni' is not a very appealing message for providers to say, let alone for students to hear. So, what do pathway providers need to do to reposition themselves away from this and more into the extra value and student experience they offer?

Lefan (Cindy) Qui (Chair) Deputy Convener, IEAA Pathways Network; Manager, International Pathways, RMIT University

Heidi Monsour Director Marketing & Admissions Griffith College

NETWORKING

4:30 – 6:00pm Face-to-face networking will take part in , Brisbane, and (AEST) Sydney, subject to any relevant movement and gathering restrictions at the time.

Please stay tuned for more information.

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PRESENTER BIOS

Dr Georgie Avard Senior Manager, Learning and Teaching Navitas University Partnerships Australasia (UPA) Division

Dr Georgie Avard is Senior Manager, Learning and Teaching at Navitas University Partnerships Australasia (UPA) Division. She holds a PhD in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning from (UK) and has over 20 years’ experience working in higher education internationally.

Georgie has expertise in technology-enhanced learning, teaching and learning professional practice, including the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, curriculum development, educating for Academic Integrity and transition and retention pedagogies. Georgie’s current interests lie in investigating innovation with online and technology-enhanced/enabled learning and teaching, particularly within pathway programs.

Georgie is currently leading a team on the Flexible Learning Project, supporting Navitas UPA Colleges in the design and implementation and evaluation of the Flexible Learning Design model. She is also Chair of the project Research Working Group, which is undertaking research on the implementation of the model and measuring its impact on student outcomes.

Andrew Foley Convener, IEAA Pathways Network; College Director and Principal, La Trobe College

Andrew Foley is the College Director and Principal of La Trobe College, and the Convenor of the IEAA Pathways Network. He has been involved in international education for more than two decades, in teaching, facilitating and school leadership, including working overseas in the UK, and Cambodia. Andrew has undertaken postgraduate studies in linguistics and business administration. His interests are in critical discourse analysis, professional ethics, and the use of analytics in educational decision making.

Emilija Malinova Foundation Studies English Teacher RMIT Training

Emilija has teaching experience in an international context in secondary school settings including, seven years of team-teaching practice with international teachers. For the last six years, she has been teaching Foundation Studies English at RMIT, where she had the opportunity to trial several innovative approaches to teaching. Her passion for intercultural communication and culturally responsive pedagogy paved her way to a PhD in this area. Emilija and Anne share the same commitment to student-centred teaching with a focus on interaction and engagement.

Heidi Monsour Director Marketing & Admissions Griffith College

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Heidi is a marketing expert driven by digital, disruption and data. She demonstrates exciting and innovative ways of thinking, driving this innovation throughout the organisation so the marketing and communications teams lead the way in creating intrapreneurs and brand advocates to grow existing territories and launch new ones.

Heidi is particularly excited in understanding the consumer, not only the markets they play in, but also markets of opportunity. She aims to enrich an organisation’s view of how to tap into this thinking at the same time respecting and growing the brand and stakeholder relationships. Partnerships – or what Heidi call’s ‘brand buddies’ – is also something she drives through different marketing and communications initiatives, and not only ones with those within the industry, but across different industries who are capturing the attention of the same markets.

Anne Motti Foundation Studies English Teacher RMIT Training

Anne has many years of teaching experience in EAL/D to secondary students in Melbourne Language Centres. She also has teaching experience in Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Arts at university. Currently, she is teaching English in Foundation Studies at RMIT, Melbourne. The focus of her teaching practice has always been supporting students to gain access to further education. Anne has been involved in numerous pilot programs at RMIT designed to enhance student articulation into university. The team-teaching pilot she and Emilija are currently trialling has proven to date to show positive outcomes concerning student engagement, student attendance and articulation into university as well as teacher professional development.

Lefan (Cindy) Qui Deputy Convener, IEAA Pathways Network; Manager, International Pathways, RMIT University

Cindy is the International Pathways Manager at RMIT University. Her career in international education started in 2002 as an Admissions Assistant at Swinburne University of Technology. She then moved to RMIT University working in International Admissions and then in Pathways. Cindy has been involved in a lot of pathways set up, including Foundation and VET pathways for RMIT University.

Jane Stewart Deputy Convener, IEAA Pathways Network; Director, Foundation Year, Monash University

Jane is Director of Monash University’s Foundation Year. Her career in education spans some 40 years, where she has worked as a teacher, in student services, curriculum development, strategy planning and more. As Deputy Convener, Jane hopes to raise the profile of pathway programs as a critical education mechanism for supporting students in new context and learning environments.

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Thorsten Wilhelm General Manager, ELICOS Education Centre of Australia

Thorsten Wilhelm is an international education expert with 15 years of experience working in university, K–12, ELICOS, VET and private higher education sectors in Australia. His expertise extends across marketing and student recruitment, business development, curriculum and assessment development and consultancy services as well as the implementation of transnational education and articulation pathway programs.

Thorsten’s capabilities in international education have evolved through his previous roles and his commercial skills have been developed in his roles as Director of Studies, Curriculum Developer, International Business Development Manager and Offshore Projects Manager in international project management in educational sectors in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Thorsten has worked on major university and international TAFE NSW projects and has spent a stint at the University of where he developed new formative assessment tools for K-12. He is currently working at the Education Centre of Australia as General Manager, looking after its international and domestic endeavours with one of the foci on the establishment of a holistic and educationally sound university foundation and pathway programs onshore and offshore.

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