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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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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…
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Virtually Connecting at ASCILITE 2018
25 February 2019 By Wendy Taleo (Charles Darwin University) and Henk Huijser (QUT) At the recent ASCILITE 2018 conference we stretched the borders of learning via an open, online hangout with people not physically at the conference. ‘The purpose of Virtually Connecting is to enliven virtual participation in academic conferences, widening access to a fuller…
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Content Copycat
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. “We want you…
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A Design Challenge: Reflowing of Content
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. Moodle has…
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Broken on Import
he fact that Canvas questions can be imported at all is awesome. However it’s rarely totally straight forward. This is a deeper dive into the problems and the workarounds of just getting the file imported (not question content issues like broken images). Same error but different causes Canvas exports quizzes as QTI files (it’s in…
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A Canvas to Moodle Migration
“We want you to shift a course from Canvas to Moodle. The course has 27 subjects. You and your three learning design colleagues have six months.” Someone Higher Up (may or may not be Bob) This is the linking post in a series by Tom Cotton. Read on as they are released to learn how…
