Assignment+2

=Individual Assignment 2=

==== Faculty of Business academics in an Australian university are being encouraged to try innovative approaches to teaching and learning in a blended and flexible environment. Mastery is determined by the ability of the academic to engage with online learning platform to teach and enhance student learning and engagement with subject and course. ==== ==== The problem is that many of the staff are new to teaching with the support of technology, having relied on distance education students’ ability to read the print packages to learn. While the LMS for the university has been operational for five years, it is due to be replaced by an unknown platform. Print packages will be cancelled by 2015 (University mandate), so all subjects need to be online to an agreed standard/quality before this date. ==== ==== Through targeted efforts of exemplar presentations by multiple new educational designers (funded for the purpose of supporting academics to ‘move online’ with innovative approaches), the academics are being shown examples of using technology to teach and enhance learning for internal and external students. But the fear of ‘how much time will it take’ still echoes through the corridors. ====