Abstract
As the media industry grapples with the issues of convergence in a new media environment, so to does the university sector struggle to prepare graduates for this evolving industry. While industry relies on a physical restructure of the newsroom, through the hub-and-spoke to encourage interdependency between mediums, universities must teach these convergence principles within a classroom environment. As a skills-based discipline, experiential learning has been found to be the most effective approach for journalism studies. But the didactic mode of the lecture and the tutorial can limit this method of teaching. The model from industry is training in situ and educational research has identified the lecture as being an outmoded delivery system, which can only ever be seen as a teaching tool as opposed to a learning tool. This paper will explore the process of implementing a converged newsroom within a contructivist teaching pedagogy, which reflects modern teaching theory and industry expectations. It will outline the process of aligning learning and teaching goals within a course program aimed at simulating the converged newsroom.