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Morning Mingle: Ed Designers Networking Breakfast at USYD
The Learning Designers from the Business Co-Design team at the University of Sydney recently hosted a small Networking Breakfast for Learning and Educational Designers (we’ll refer to them as Learning Designers from here on). Our goal was to bring people together and help build the learning design community within Sydney. When we applied to host…
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Do students really care about the modality of their learning? We asked some experts in Higher Ed
As a sector, we have offered flexible study modes for students – on campus/in-person, online/distance, blended, hybrid/hyflex. But do students really care which mode they are learning? Are students modality agnostic? What do they really mean when they say they want flexible study modes? Does the mode impact students’ learning outcomes? We asked some key…
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Are you the ultimate LMS designer?
The Battle of the LMSs is a fun event being held at the 2022 ASCILITE conference in Sydney. Through a series of challenges, harnessing the expertise of Australasia’s best educators, learning designers and education technologists, we will answer the age-old question – Which is the best LMS? This challenge is open to anyone attending the…
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May 2022 reading activity
Welcome to the TELedvisors shared reading activity for May! Reading for TELedvisors is intended to be a monthly ‘slow chat’ where you can engage with your peers and discuss a current topic related to educational technology. Each reading is intended to be not too long (avoid the TL;DR) and openly accessible and to support the…
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Connecting and bridging – the Third Space privilege
Photo: By Sam Sills – Forth bridges, Looking south, May 2021 At a recent TELedvisors event (@TELedvisors) there were thought-provoking presentations by Diane Nutt (@dixxyD) and Emily McIntosh (@emilythemac) on the concept of integrated practise, and how it can enable positive change. What do we mean by integrated practise? There are many different names for…
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PressEdConf 2020: About this blog
A meta-post as we look back at the role of The Edvisor blog for a presentation at the 2020 PressEdConf Conference, all conducted on Twitter. PressED is a Twitter conference that looks at how WordPress is used in teaching, pedagogy and research. This year the sessions brought in WordPress projects as diverse as open textbooks…
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Design thinking for teledvisors
By Steven Kickbusch, Briony Wainman, Roger Cook, Sharon Altena, & Henk Huijser a two-minute read For the latest Meet-Up of TELedvisors, which was held in November last year at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus, we decided to do something different and have a more focused workshop facilitated by Dr Natalie Wright and Steven Kickbusch. The focus…
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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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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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Biggest Queensland TELedvisors Meet-Up yet at Griffith
The Queensland Meet-Ups of TELedvisors are steadily growing in popularity
