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Learning & Teaching Forum on Assessment – the appetiser

August 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Learning & teaching, UNFED

UNFED notes 25 August 2010 Winter bugs seem to be hitting late this year, so some regular participants were not to be seen – get well soon Niki and Mike Ann Wilson let everyone know what’s planned for the L&T Forum on September 17. This promises to be stimulating half day (with lunch!), focusing on [...]

Upcoming Seminar – The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education

July 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · 392, 393, 643

The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education Prof Curtis Bonk, University of Indiana 16 July, 10.00am – 11.30am, Learning & Teaching Workshop (Room 416), Level 4 Mathews Building, Kensington Campus Building on Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, Curt Bonk’s new book “The World is Open” offers an intriguing [...]

Learning and Teaching Gateway – have your say

April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · TELT news

Focus groups for Faculties to provide input to the design of the planned online L&T Gateway will commence later in May. We are looking for participants who have an interest in learning and teaching, including teaching support staff, and academics who want assistance with course design and development, applying for grants and awards in learning [...]

The death of education and the dawn of learning

January 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Trends

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Tags:change·Education·innovation·learning·school

Compulsory Blog Posts

December 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · Networked learning, Tools & applications

I’m doing a whole lot of reading and research into the topic of classroom blogging at the moment, and have run into a recurring theme of compulsory student posting that I want to muse a bit about. The basic idea behind compulsory posting is that, rather than leaving topics or frequency of posting exclusively to [...]

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Tags:assignments·blogs·learning·reflection·telt

Learning futures: challenges for supporting technologies

September 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events

Here’s one for your 2010 calendar. The University of Southern Queensland is sponsoring Idea10 from 10-12 March 2010 in Melbourne ; a ‘series of events focusing on current and emerging technologies that support learning. The events will address opportunities and challenges for the infrastructure necessary to support digital education’, providing a national, cross-sectoral forum to: [...]

What IS it that TELT supports?

September 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion

There’s strong agreement that any work and development around the use of educational technologies should focus on how a particular tool or application can address a particular learning and teaching need or issue, and/or how L&T can be enriched, extended, refocused through its use. But what there’s little conversation around, or perhaps even agreement on, [...]

Recording from CCK08 Presentation for UNFED

August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Syndicated Post

Yesterday afternoon I gave a short presentation on CCK08 to the UNSW Network of Faculty Educational Developers, focusing primarily on an overview of CCK’s distributed nature, the technical environments used during the 12-week course and the underpinning logic behind the distributed framework. Seeing as I had access to an iPod and microphone attachment I decided to record the first half of the presentation and share it here.
The talk was divided into two parts – roughly 20 minutes of which featured my presentation, and a following 10 minutes of open discussion. …

Where churn happens ….

July 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Opinion

[image: Ben Werdmuller] I don’t seem to get much time these days to explore my RSS feeds but today enjoyed reading Mike Bogle’s post ‘My Learning Style‘ and have been pondering his question ‘when does a reference resource or artifact become a form of dialogue?’. I’m not sure it can be anything other than a [...]

Open is Good

May 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · 111, Syndicated Post

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When I observe people who live in an open paradigm, where learning, teaching, sharing, collaborating, and communicating are done publicly, and made freely available to others to rip, mix and burn, I see far more than simply the act of doing so, or the resulting output [...]

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