Professional Learning
Opportunities available for April 2019
April 2019
Please take at look the workshops on offer and click here if you would like any additional topics that are not already listed.
We have workshops that can assist you with effective and efficient assessment feedback, as well as, drop-in sessions!
23 April 2019, Assessment Feedback, How, Why and Where. 1pm, Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences.
This workshop will look at effective and efficient ways to provide assessment feedback to students. Topics will include; how to structure feedback to guide students, using digital platforms to deliver feedback, and how to get students to engage with assessment feedback to improve their work.
24 April 2019, Assessment Feedback, How, Why and Where. 1pm, Faculty Arts and Education and Faculty of Science.
This workshop will look at effective and efficient ways to provide assessment feedback to students. Topics will include; how to structure feedback to guide students, using digital platforms to deliver feedback, and how to get students to engage with assessment feedback to improve their work.
Drop In Sessions for Sessional Staff. 11am, Everyone Welcome.
See our range of useful PD resources at http://uimagine.edu.au/csupd/
April 5, 12,19 & 26
Expanded information is available on DLT Professional Learning Calendar
Practical help to assist you with learning data and student engagement.
10 April 2019, Forty-Five Minute Zone: Learning data and student engagement. 1pm. Faculty of Arts and Education, Faculty of Science.
By now students in many subjects will have submitted their first assessment task. As you review grades, this may trigger questions about the relationship between student site activity and their performance. This session will guide you through two different Site Analytics reports that make it easy for teaching staff to discover students who, for example, are quite active in a subject site but who have below average grades.
11 April 2019, Forty-Five Minute Zone: Learning data and student engagement. 1pm. Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences.
Expanded information is available on DLT Professional Learning Calendar
Peer Review of Teaching for Probation or Promotion
23 April 2019, Observation of Teaching. 12pm. Everyone Welcome.
This workshop is for staff who wish to engage in peer review of teaching for probation or promotion; early career academics, prospective teaching and learning mentors, CSU teaching and learning leaders. The aims of the workshop are to present a rationale for observation of teaching, and showcase the processes of participating in observation of teaching from key stakeholders’ perspectives.
Expanded information is available on DLT Professional Learning Calendar
Are you an academic or professional staff involved in Workplace Learning? This workshop maybe for you!
2 April 2019, Workplace Learning Good Practice Guidelines (Part 1). 12pm. Everyone Welcome.
The aims of the workshop are to raise awareness of the CSU Workplace Learning Good Practice Guidelines and how to action these in your practice of planning for and supporting students in workplace learning.
11 April 2019, Workplace Learning Good Practice Guidelines (Part 2 - attending Part 1 is not essential). 12pm. Everyone Welcome.
The aims of the workshop are to apply the Good Practice Guiding Principles of WPL to practice in your WPL role. Focus: The workshop will include: • Viewing examples of applying Principle 3 “establish & maintain collaborative, reciprocal partnerships” to WPL practice; • Identifying personal and professional strategies to apply Principle 3 in participants’ WPL role; and • Question and answer time.
16 April 2019, TEQSA and Workplace Learning. 12pm. Everyone Welcome.
The aims of the workshop are to raise awareness of the TEQSA Requirements associated with planning for and implementing workplace learning opportunities in higher education institutions Focus: The workshop will include: • Exploration of the TEQSA Guiding Note relating to Work integrated Learning.
Expanded information is available on DLT Professional Learning Calendar
Online learning workshops that can assist you with facilitating student engagement!
23 April 2019, Adobe Connect Basics. 10am. Everyone Welcome.
This 45 min workshop will introduce the basic functionalities for using CSU’s remote delivery platform. For specific elements covered in the workshop click onto the DLT calendar below.
24 April 2019, Adobe Connect Advanced. 10am. Everyone Welcome.
This 45 min workshop will introduce you to a number of advanced functionalities for using CSU’s remote delivery platform. For specific elements covered in the workshop click onto the DLT calendar below.
Expanded information is available on DLT Professional Learning Calendar
Teaching with Technology!
30 April 2019, Teaching with Technology, the what, why, and how of using educational technologies. 1pm. Everyone Welcome.
Expanded information is available on DLT Professional Learning Calendar
Want to know more about Gulaay Indigenous Curriculum, Pedagogy and Resources team?
Contact us for further information:
Barb Hill: bahill@csu.edu.au
Melinda Lewis: melewis@csu.edu.au
Jade Flynn: jflynn@csu.edu.au
Need help with Learning Technologies, Spaces, Resources and Analytics?
Learning Spaces Portal Pilot: http://learningspaces.csu.edu.au
Academics are invited to use the Learning Spaces Portal, which is currently being piloted, and give feedback. See a demo of how it works here: Video
Professional Learning is available on request. Contact:
Learning Technologies and Learning Spaces: phua@csu.edu.au and rstewart-allan@csu.edu.au
Learning Resources: Jwright@csu.edu.au
Learning Analytics: SMcKinney@csu.edu.au
We can help you apply the course design process to your course review...
Course design professional learning is available on request. Contact:
Faculty of Arts and Education: Denise Wood dwood@csu.edu.au
Faculty of Science: Greg Auhl gauhl@csu.edu.au
Faculty of Business Justice and Behavioural Sciences: Sally McCarthy samccarthy@csu.edu.au
Watch: - Why course review, design and development is important at CSU: Video
Before you begin your course review, take a look at the new Course Design Professional Learning web page. The pages include FAQs on the Course Design Process, Step-by-Step Instructions on using CourseSpace and links to further Professional Learning on course design from across the university.
We can support you with implementing the ‘Sustainable Practices’ Graduate Attribute...
The Learning Academy has assistance available to all Course Directors, Course Design teams, and Subject Conveners on the ‘Sustainable Practices’ graduate attribute.
We can assist you to:
- · Develop contextualised lesson plans and resource material
- · Develop assessment items and associated rubrics relevant to your topic area
- · Provide quality assurance/review to subjects you believe are aligned to this Attribute
- · Revise and re-write the relevant sections in your CASIMS subject/course profiles
If you wish to start a discussion contact: jhoward@csu.edu.au
Want to know more about innovation and open education practices?
Please contact the uImagine team for further information:
Lyn Hay (Innovation): lhay@csu.edu.au
Val Peachey (Open): vpeachey@csu.edu.au
We also have Professional Development and Teaching Resources to support you!
Here is the link to the Divisions Learning and Teaching Professional Development and Teaching Resources web page.
You could also use learning and teaching shared resources within DOMS. Although, you will need to use your CSU login, which then gives you access to more than 750 resources.