The Extended Classroom
About
Warwick’s institutional strategy includes a commitment to flexibility for students – as both an extension of curriculum opportunities and as an expansion in the repertoire of practices used for teaching and learning. Drivers for this include: a more tailored student experience; access to international opportunities for all; widening participation; the challenges of rapidly scaling a high-quality campus experience beyond our physical capacity.

We are developing an approach to these challenges appropriate to large, internationalising, campus based research-intensive universities like Warwick. We call this approach The Extended Classroom. It begins by affirming the teacher-student relationship at the core, but then carefully extending the relationship over space and time, and across institutional boundaries as appropriate. First, we understand what is important in inter-personal interactions, then we build the supporting framework around this, extending the repertoire of informed design choices to exploit opportunities for flexibility.

The initial Extended Classroom project is part of the HEA Strategic Enhancement Programme Flexible Learning Strand. It is a joint project involving Acadenic Tech, Audio Visual Services, LDC, IATL, the Students' Union and Teaching Quality.

The Extended Classroom fortnight: 9th to 20th February 2015
A series of activities to introduce the Extended Classroom suite of tools, support services and spaces. We will kick-start the process of getting Extended Classroom adopted by teachers and students across the University.

The events include practical and imaginative sessions (with Academic Technology, LDC, IATL and Audio-Visual Services). This will culminate in a visualisation workshop on Friday 20th, with idea visualisation artist Laura Brodrick - see www.thinkbigpicture.co.uk for examples.

Smaller groups of academics and students are also invited to book a co-design session, in which Laura Brodick will create a vision of Extended Classroom for a department or course. We will then develop an action plan and support package to go from idea to implementation.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/academictechnology/teaching/extendedclassroom