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The Dramedy
At the ASCILITE 2019 conference we banded together to write a dramedy. We felt that this form of writing would allow us to show ‘uncomfortable truths’ (David Jones, Tweet) for real dramas. The abstract (AKA ‘The plan’): The processes that universities use to implement new technologies for learning and teaching, research and administration have been…
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Sharing video content in your teaching
Republished with permission from the Monash Education Innovation blog Video is everywhere online. One billion hours of video are watched daily on YouTube alone (YouTube, 2019). In this post, we will provide some ideas about what kinds of videos you might consider using in your Moodle unit and why. Future posts will offer more detailed…
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Office365 and the Griffith Summit
Summary – Lindsay Rattray The Microsoft Office365 and Teams in Learning and Teaching Summit was an excellent event. For me it represented the tangible proof of how Microsoft has changed as a company, and once again is a darling of the tech world. Remember when Google was taking over? The collaborative features in Google Docs,…
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What’s in a Name Part 2: Digital Learning Engineers
Following on from What’s in a Name Part 1: Learning Designers This blog post is structured as Frequently Asked Questions and Responses, from the author’s perspective. These responses are informed by the authors’ 25+ years of experience as an academic in two countries, her PhD and research in education, her role as Director of central learning and teaching units across…
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What’s in a Name Part 1: Learning Designers
Education is the core business of universities, and students are the priority. As such, universities have three main purposes. First, to support students to learn, grow, and further develop knowledge, skills, attributes and identity. One of the key intended outcomes of this student development is graduate success, including in careers. The second purpose of universities is to generate new knowledge and…
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Biggest Queensland TELedvisors Meet-Up yet at Griffith
The Queensland Meet-Ups of TELedvisors are steadily growing in popularity
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Sharing our stories: TEL edvisor narratives
Read time: Approximately 11 minutes. The positions and people that encompass what we have coined the “TEL edvisor” role are varied, including learning designers, educational technologists, academic developers, and others who fall somewhere in between or have an affinity/overlap with these roles. Discussions that the TEL edvisor Special Interest Group (SIG) has had over the…
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The Question of Missing Images
Getting images into questions remains the last stumbling block. Solving the question import process was awesome but automatically importing images into those questions still remains the last unmet challenge. Images are either simply broken or have unwanted hard coded links back to the Canvas instance. Solution dead-ends For example, one Chemistry exam had 60 questions…
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Where’s my (educational) jetpack? The future of Technology Enhanced Learning
Read time: Approximately 9 minutes. Our upcoming March webinar is scheduled for Thursday 28th March 12pm AEDT and is centred around ‘The future of TEL’ (further details at the base of this article). There’s been a lot of speculation about what education might look like as we enter what many authors have coined the ‘age…
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Converting Quiz Questions
Editors note: This post is the latest in a series from Tom Cotton, a Learning Designer at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Tom has been working on a project to migrate content from the Canvas Learning Management System to Moodle and these posts describe some of the challenges faced and solutions found. The single biggest…
