September 2017 - Issue 8
Welcome to another newsletter with resources to support learning and teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Education, with a focus on online learning.
This issue includes:
Enjoy!
Julie
Did you miss the August newsletter?
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This issue includes:
- Professional learning
- Assessment practices
- Random items of interest - including the NMC Horizon Report for Higher Ed
- Getting ready for the 201790 session!
Enjoy!
Julie
Did you miss the August newsletter?
Over 1200 views so far - https://www.smore.com/3p7t6
Session #1: Flippin' Fresh - Supporting Student Engagement
On September 12 Julie Lindsay and Ged Bourke shared some new features of FlipGrid to support online student engagement. Here are the resources:
- Slides - http://tinyurl.com/FlipPDSept17
- FG Sandbox - https://flipgrid.com/dee247
- Recording - https://connect.csu.edu.au/p7k8f4pah2d/
- PDF download - http://tinyurl.com/flippinPDF
Session #2: The Voice! Interaction online
On September 19 Lisa Watt and Julie shared new approaches to teacher-student and student-student interaction using the tool ‘Voicethread’. Here are the resources:
- Slides - http://tinyurl.com/thevoice17
- Recording - https://connect.csu.edu.au/p6fto8g1cyh/
- PDF Download - http://tinyurl.com/theVoicePDF
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Making Group Collaboration Work in Higher Ed (Part 1) September 26: Students hate group work, but why? Working across disciplines and collaborating in diverse work teams to solve complex problems is a fundamental skill essential to our graduates’ professional practice. This session will start to address design scaffolds possible for group work including ideas for assessment and tools in online learning. | Flying Free with H5P! October 3: Be in the ‘know’ and join this session about H5P. This is an online tool that allows you to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content online. You can easily create a memory game, interactive presentation, interactive video, image collage, interactive image and more. It’s easy and free! Artefacts can be embedded into Interact2 subject sites or other online places. | Making Group Collaboration Work in Higher Ed (Part 2)October 10: Extending on from the session on Sept. 26, this session will hone in on technologies for collaboration - what and how to use. Join Julie Lindsay, Harriet Ridolpho and Lisa Smallbone for this conversation about online creation and co-creation. |
Making Group Collaboration Work in Higher Ed (Part 1)
September 26: Students hate group work, but why? Working across disciplines and collaborating in diverse work teams to solve complex problems is a fundamental skill essential to our graduates’ professional practice. This session will start to address design scaffolds possible for group work including ideas for assessment and tools in online learning.
Flying Free with H5P!
October 3: Be in the ‘know’ and join this session about H5P. This is an online tool that allows you to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content online. You can easily create a memory game, interactive presentation, interactive video, image collage, interactive image and more. It’s easy and free! Artefacts can be embedded into Interact2 subject sites or other online places.
Making Group Collaboration Work in Higher Ed (Part 2)
October 10: Extending on from the session on Sept. 26, this session will hone in on technologies for collaboration - what and how to use. Join Julie Lindsay, Harriet Ridolpho and Lisa Smallbone for this conversation about online creation and co-creation.
Coffee Courses at ANU
These Coffee courses are 5-day short courses (one small post per day) about different focus areas in learning and teaching. Subscribe to get alerts to the latest courses, or browse through past courses according to your own interests and pace. There are ones on academic integrity and Turnitin, engaging students online, flipping the classroom, enhancing lectures, creating teacher presence videos, ePortfolios, MOOCs, Open Educational Practice, Universal Design for Learning, using video in teaching and virtual reality.
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A Marked Improvement The Higher Education Academy (HEA) shares a report to do with transforming assessment in Higher Ed. - A Marked Improvement and concludes that purposeful assessment will entail changes made to assessment design, students, staff and infrastructure. Make sure you read more! | Assessment and Graduate Attributes An interesting paper by David Nicole argues that to develop graduate attributes HE institutions should focus their efforts on developing student ability to critically evaluate the quality and impact of their own work - this takes both self-assessment and peer review. | Retrieval Practice New research is featured in this 'Cult of Pedagogy' post about Retrieval Practice. This is the act of trying to recall information without having it in front of you. Strategies are shared that can be adapted to your subject and learning environment. See this website also - Retrieval Practice. |
A Marked Improvement
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) shares a report to do with transforming assessment in Higher Ed. - A Marked Improvement and concludes that purposeful assessment will entail changes made to assessment design, students, staff and infrastructure. Make sure you read more!
Assessment and Graduate Attributes
An interesting paper by David Nicole argues that to develop graduate attributes HE institutions should focus their efforts on developing student ability to critically evaluate the quality and impact of their own work - this takes both self-assessment and peer review.
Retrieval Practice
New research is featured in this 'Cult of Pedagogy' post about Retrieval Practice. This is the act of trying to recall information without having it in front of you. Strategies are shared that can be adapted to your subject and learning environment. See this website also - Retrieval Practice.
Higher Education Podcasts - Take a look!
This looks like fun - podcasts created by academics to support teaching, learning and research.
What about Beyond the Lecturn series from the University of Melbourne, especially the one on assessment design with Elizabeth Molloy - something that's going to start to be even more critical as we move towards flexible assessments.
What about Beyond the Lecturn series from the University of Melbourne, especially the one on assessment design with Elizabeth Molloy - something that's going to start to be even more critical as we move towards flexible assessments.
Julie Lindsay - QLT Online Leader, Faculty of Arts and Education
Let me know how I can support learning online across the faculty - online and on-campus subjects.