Category: TEL News

  • 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…

  • Membership of the TELedvisors Network – 8th November, 2023

    The TELedvisors Network has continued to grow since our last update in March last year and we now have 535 members (give or take – minus duplicates) across 13 countries. As of the 8th of November, we have 535 members (give or take a few duplicates) in 13 countries. (Mostly Oz and NZ). In Australia,…

  • Celebrating 10 Years of H5P: Empowering TEL in Higher Education

    Celebrating 10 Years of H5P: Empowering TEL in Higher Education

    As H5P celebrates its 10-year anniversary, this post looks back on its impact on Higher Education and highlights some useful new features.

  • Webinar: The AI (ChatGPT) Future – What do we do now? (Thurs 2/2 12 noon AEDT)

    Webinar: The AI (ChatGPT) Future – What do we do now? (Thurs 2/2 12 noon AEDT)

    The rapid growth of generative AI tools including ChatGPT (text), MidJourney (images) and GitHub Pilot (computer code) in the last year has enormous implications for education. Having easily accessible technologies that can generate passably human content may require a complete rethinking of learning and assessment – for good and bad. Join our panel of experts…

  • The most ultimate LMS Designers in the ASCILITE Battle of the LMS

    We (organisers from the TELedvisors Network – Colin Simpson, Penny Wheeler, Dan Laurence, Gordon Cunningham and Jo Elliott) set out to create an entertaining and sometimes informative event for the 2022 ASCILITE conference and by that measure, I think we can say that we succeeded. This first (and probably only) Battle of the LMS panel…

  • Are you the ultimate LMS designer?

    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…

  • A journey through time and space – Mixed reality media in teaching (Webinar)

    TELedvisors network webinar Thursday 27/10 12 noon (AEDT) One of the greatest benefits of technology for learning and teaching is the opportunity to do things that would simply not be possible in person. Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality, 3D models, video games and simulations and even simpler tools such as Light Boards extend our ability to share experiences…

  • Biggest Queensland TELedvisors Meet-Up yet at Griffith

    Biggest Queensland TELedvisors Meet-Up yet at Griffith

    The Queensland Meet-Ups of TELedvisors are steadily growing in popularity

  • Sharing our stories: TEL edvisor narratives

    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…

  • Outstanding book award to Matt Bower

    Outstanding book award to Matt Bower

    Earlier in the year it was great to hear that one of our teledvisor community, Assoc. Prof. Matt Bower, had won the 2018 Association for Educational Communications and Technology Design and Development Outstanding Book Award for his 2017 book Design of Technology-enhanced Learning. Matt Bower announced the publication of his book on our TELedvisors forum last…