Using a behaviour-centred approach to successfully design with and implement new or existing technology enhanced learning (TEL) pedagogies.

Abstract

Educators have come to rely on the use of technology enhanced learning pedagogies as a means of achieving better student learning. As such, the application of TEL pedagogies has grown to address a range of teaching and learning challenges, despite a mixed body of evidence documenting its effectiveness. A behaviour-centred approach can improve the likelihood of effectiveness of such pedagogies by targeting the design of TEL to the specific behaviours educators want to see their students perform during learning. This approach takes into careful consideration the nature of the challenge that TEL is destined to address, the specific preferences, motivations and needs of students, the method of implementation, as well as the measurement of impact. In this workshop, we offer a range of practical and theoretical tools drawn from the behavioural sciences and encapsulated in an evidence-informed framework of behaviour change–the BehaviourWorks Australia Method–to demonstrate that the efficacy of TEL pedagogies can be optimised via a rigorous process. The Method has been tried and tested across hundreds of industry projects, and can be applied equally as effectively in the context of education, with the purpose of successfully designing and implementing new or existing technology enhanced learning pedagogies.