Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

Monash University confronted challenges and opportunities of meeting the demands of the 21st-century learner by implementing a new approach to education through the Better Teaching, Better Learning Agenda. The agenda focussed the educational journey of students on opportunities to prepare and discover, explore and reinforce and ‘consolidate and apply using a blended and multifaceted approach to teaching delivery and engagement. Educational designers were embedded in the faculties as key catalysts for change. This model has allowed the interpretation of the agenda for the particular culture of the faculty while keeping the institutional perspective in sight. This paper report on the transformational change undertaken and achieved in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences using a strategic approach to build capacity and develop best practice in online and face-to-face delivery. Faculty educational transformation as part of the Better Teaching Better Learning agenda commenced in 2015. Over the past three years, the transformation has seen changes at unit and course levels with changes reported against the key criteria. In this paper, we outline our strategic activities to bring about substantive educational change in a very large and research intensive faculty and report on achievements and evaluations.