3. The pedagogic benefit of using webinar delivery within hybrid module design

Rob Whitehouse (Education Technology Lead, Senior Lecturer in eBusiness & Management) and Jade Price (current 3rd year BA Business & Management student) will offer a brief overview of one of the ‘hybrid designed’ Business & Management modules. Rob will discuss the on campus / off campus webinar design, approach and delivery. Jade will offer her experiences as a student and frequent webinar user (i.e. learning benefits for the student.), and why joining a webinar is ‘not a licence to not attend’.

Key words:  technology-enhanced learning, elearning, edu-tech, blended learning, hybrid modules, webinar, virtual classrooms, online pedagogy.

About the presenter:  After studying Business Marketing in the early nineties, Rob worked in marketing in the United States, London and then managed a marketing department for a multinational. Returning to higher education in the following decade with a keen interest in e-commerce, Rob studied for a B.Ed and shortly after an MSc in Technology Enhanced Learning. This led to involvement in the development of an EU-funded international MOOC, eLearning platform development, production of a work-based learning Assessor App and designing various blended learning modules for education institutions. Rob is passionate about the support that ‘Edu Tech’ can offer, and sees this as solid scaffolding to raise learner engagement and achievement. He has been teaching in higher education for over fifteen years and has taught almost 2,000 hours on-line. Professional consultancy work and presentations include various government agencies, JISC, LSN, local SMEs and FE institutions. Rob also supports his wife’s business with web-site design, web2 and e-commerce. Current PhD research interests include the design and development of ‘hybrid courses’, blended learning environments and pedagogical impacts of ‘mobile learning’ within both the university landscape and business.