UNFED notes March 3 2010 The first meeting for 2010, and in spite of it being first week of session we had plenty of participants. Firstly, housekeeping – a brief discussion of whether we keep our meetings on Wednesday, or change to another day. For the benefit of those who can’t do Wednesdays, a meeting [...]
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More on Moodle, and all about copyright
March 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
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Creative Commons, Mind manager, Moodle and more
November 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes November 25 2009 Creative Commons and UNSWorks Caroline Hedges presented a topic on Creative Commons, and how it applies to UNSWorks, which is the UNSW online repository of research publications. UNSWorks uses Creative Commons licensing to manage copyright of the works, and all UNSW staff are invited to publish their research publications there [...]
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ALT-C conference UK, and what’s happening with Blackboard …
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes 30.09.09 ALT-C Carol Russell from Engineering was recently in the UK for the annual ALT-C conference (not to be confused with Australia’s ALTC…) Keynotes were by Michael Wesch (see his ‘Vision of Students Today’ video), Martin Bean (VC OU) and Terry Anderson (Athabasca University, Canada). There are links to their recorded talks on [...]
Online report writing resource … and finding out about Open Education
August 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, Learning & teaching, Networked learning, UNFED
UNFED notes 25.08.09 WRISE Pam Mort from UNSW Learning Centre demonstrated WRISE, an online resource to help students with report writing in Science and Engineering. Developed in association with The University of Sydney and supported by an ALTC grant, the resource is publicly available. It is being used by staff and students across several disciplines, [...]
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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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Online polling, Flickr as gallery tool, more on accessibility
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, TELT news, UNFED
Notes on UNFED meeting 24 June 2009 John Paul demonstrated the use of Poll Everywhere, a free online polling facility, that could be used in place of classroom ‘clickers’. (Also see PollDaddy) Rita showed some useful online resources to support web accessibility in higher education. Creating Accessible Teaching and Support (CATS) is a web based [...]
Training for Blackboard rollout – and accessible courses
May 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, UNFED
Notes from the latest UNFED meeting – May 27 2009 The development of courses for the FEI (Blackboard Learn pilot) in session 2 is well underway and attention turns to the provision of support for the University-wide rollout next year. What support and training will be offered by Blackboard? By Learning & Teaching? Niki Fardouly [...]
UNFED – April meeting notes
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, Learning & teaching, TELT news, UNFED
UNFED (UNSW Network of Faculty Educational Developers) meets monthly. These links relate to discussion from the April meeting. UNSW staff contact Belinda if you’d like to be added to the invitation list. Great turnout, and welcome to new participants – Alistair Spooner from Law and Adrianne Harris from OSDS. BB training and roll-out Niki asked [...]
UNFED – March meeting notes
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED (UNSW Network of Faculty Educational Developers) meets monthly. These links relate to discussion from the March meeting. Please join us if you wish (UNSW staff only). Science and ASB are trialling an ePortfolio system – converted from the eMed system used in Medicine. More info about eMed For more info contact Michelle Kofod New [...]
UNFED – UNSW Network of Faculty Educational Developers
April 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · L&T IT Portfolio, UNFED
The UNFED network allows staff in faculties who are supporting teaching, learning and e-learning to get together as a group to discuss common issues and make contact with central support personnel (eg L&T@UNSW, Library). Meetings happen monthly, over lunch on the last wednesday, and we try to have a couple of specific topics for discussion. [...]
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