Orchestrating Student Engagement and Experience:
Blended and Connected Learning Together

A showcase of techniques that help orchestrating student engagement and experience of blended and connected learning activities including learning together and group working. These techniques have been developed based on pedagogic principles relating to self-regulation of learning, co-regulation of learning and socially-shared regulation of learning. Many staff across the university have taken to technologies to either pre-record their sessions or stream live sessions. Content alone cannot enthuse the curiosity and passion in students to become the best in their fields. Learning together with peers has great benefits to offer but this can be hard to realise. This session will highlight how engagement with content can be improved alongside engagement with peers during live and learning together sessions. In particular I will highlight how to orchestrate the interactions between content and peers in a way that develops a students ability to self, co and socially shared regulation. 

Session Aims

With the techniques I will showcase in this session staff across many fields should be able to enhance their orchestration skills within online environments, in particular orchestrating: 

• Student engagement with content 

• Student to student interactions using existing tools available to us 

• Group/team working