Connected learning – designing for scale through co-design approaches

In large classes, students can feel a sense of social isolation and disconnect leading to a poor university experience. Utilising a connected learning pedagogy with three underpinning principles, we have been transforming business education at a large metropolitan university in Australia. Designing and evaluating connections to knowledge, to peers and to society and communities we present some of the emerging themes from our work across 25 units each with cohorts of up to 2000. Students tell us what they value, how they engage using technologies and what they find helpful in our designs. We are beginning to produce a series of reusable Design Patterns that highlight the problem–solution–implementation phases of our Connected Learning at Scale project complete with examples of the patterns in use.