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Entries Tagged as 'collaboration'

Learning & Teaching Forum on Assessment – the appetiser

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · 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 [...]

CreateWorld 2010 – “Working on the Edge – Creativity, Technology and Innovation”

August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Bb staff announcements, bbstaff, Connections & collaboration, Events, staffannouncements

CreateWorld 2010 – “Working on the Edge – Creativity, Technology and Innovation” 29 November – 1 December 2010 Given the success of the last four events, the AUC will again be hosting the CreateWorld conference – a three day performance, presentation, and professional development event, specifically for academic and higher-education technical staff in the digital [...]

The world is open

July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events, Learning & teaching, TELT news, Trends

Thanks to Stephan Ridgway from TAFE Sydney Institute for recording and editing last week’s presentation by Dr Curtis Bonk titled “The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education”. The session recording is long but an excellent introduction to the current state of e-learning internationally. It covers Curt’s recently released book of [...]

Public lectures on: Writing The Future: How Digital Books Will Change the World and Going Mobile: Building for the New Mobility

April 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Announcements, Bb staff announcements, bbstaff, Networked learning, Tools & applications

Two public lectures being presented by Sydney Ideas, The University of Sydney’s public lecture series program. Writing The Future: How Digital Books Will Change the World and Going Mobile: Building for the New Mobility Dr Bill Rankin Associate Professor of English and Director of Educational Innovation at Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Abilene, Texas along [...]

Getting the good DiRT

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Resources, Tools & applications

I’ve joined the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki in order to contribute to a wonderful collaborative resource that is managed by Lisa Spiro from RICE University. The wiki “collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.” Pages of resources include: [...]

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Cacoo: collaborative drawing tool

January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Resources, Tools & applications

Cacoo is still a bit buggy but has potential for those wanting to construct diagrams with others online and in real time. The editing tool comes with a set of very easy to use drag/drop stencils to construct flowcarts, network charts, UML, mindmaps etc. It’s also possible to upload any image onto the page. Diagrams [...]

Engaging students in wiki collaboration

December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Issues, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Research, Tools & applications

I’ve had some interesting conversations in the last couple of weeks about student engagement in course wikis – feedback ranged from students who didn’t stop contributing even after exams were complete, through to cases where students just ‘didn’t see the point’. So how do you maximise student engagement in a collaborative wiki? Should contributions be [...]

Do do do: the art of positive thinking

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Issues, Opinion

We met this morning to gather intelligence and inspiration to move our, as yet small, WPMU pilot to the next level. Our discussions today were primarily focused on technical design, access, provisioning, authentication etc. One area for further consideration is the development of guidelines for use, as opposed to policy requirements. In timely fashion I [...]

Learning futures: challenges for supporting technologies

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · 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: [...]

Connectivism and other approaches to online professional development

August 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, Learning & teaching, UNFED

(Notes from UNFED meeting 05.08.09) Mike Bogle demonstrated the distributed approach to online course implementation via George Siemens and Stephen Downes ‘Connectivism and Connective Knowledge’ course, run late in 2008 (CCK08). Described as “an attempt to destabilize the concept of a course“, and building on a basic concept of learner constructed and directed learning spaces [...]

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