UNFED notes – Oct 31 2012 BEST network– Diane Vucelik, Hannah Meyer, Ruth Miller (Medical Sciences) presented on their involvement in this major elearning project. NBN funded project to develop resources for Biomedical Educational and Skill Training, UNSW with other universities and peak bodies. Working with Smart Sparrow to develop customisable and sharable elearning resources [...]
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BEST in Med Sci, elearning projects and Moodle transition plan
March 19th, 2013 · No Comments · TELT news, UNFED
Adaptive eLearning and ASB upcoming events on assessment
June 9th, 2011 · No Comments · UNFED
UNFED notes, May 2011 Dr. Dror Ben-Naim from School of Computer Science and Engineering gave us a presentation on Adaptive eLearning. Adaptive eLearning is Intelligent Tutoring Technology: computer-based educational environment that can intelligently adapt to students’ level of knowledge, providing students with the unique feedback that they need, when they need it. Dror also briefed [...]
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ReView and Group Management in Moodle
April 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Learning & teaching, TELT news, UNFED
The meeting invitation of this UNFED session was extended to L&T fellows and faculties. We have a very good turnout and engaged discussions for the session. ReView Dr Gigi Foster (academic Economics) and Danny Carroll (Educational Designer) of the Australian School of Business have presented on the trial of ReView in Courses and for accreditation [...]
Blackboard, Moodle, UNSW-TV and more
December 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, TELT news, UNFED
UNFED meeting notes – November 24 2010 The last meeting for 2010, and we had plenty of participants keen for news on the Blackboard upgrade and Moodle 2.0 pilot. The current status of UNSW-TV was also covered - Niki’s notes on the discussion are below. Only a little time was left for conference reports. Andrew [...]
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Insights into students’ ‘thinking’ with handheld computers
August 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Bb staff announcements, Bb student announcements, Learning & teaching, Research, Tools & applications
Public lecture, Monday 16 August 2010, in Room 119 of the John Goodsell Building (Level 1) School of Education, University of New South Wales http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/news-and-events/public-lecture-insights-into-students-thinking-with-handheld-computers-570.html Abstract The impact of the handheld computer (PDA) as a motivational learning tool has been described in numerous articles. As a pedagogical tool, it has the capacity to enable students [...]
Wikis and agile teaching
June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Tools & applications
Following the interesting session run by Belinda Allen at our last UNFED meeting I came across this post by Matthew Allen – Should you use a wiki for teaching and which one? which is worth sharing given where we’re at with our wiki pilot here at UNSW. Wikis support what Matthew refers to as ‘agile [...]
Social bookmarking and other Web2.0 goodies
April 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Connections & collaboration, Events, TELT news
UNFED notes 28.04.10 Robyn demonstrated and discussed the use of social bookmarking, in particular using Diigo, a group-based tool that is great for supporting collaborative work (see Robyn’s previous post on this for links and resources). These tools have great potential to support group work, so have a play, and spread the word. Some other [...]
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Reminder to complete ELISE Quiz by end of Week 5
March 31st, 2010 · 23 Comments · Bb student announcements, bbstudent
All first-time commencing undergraduate students at UNSW are required to complete the ELISE Quiz by the end of Week 5. If you have not completed your ELISE Quiz, please log into the ELISE Blackboard course and complete the ELISE Quiz as soon as possible. Once you have completed your quiz, log into myUNSW > Student [...]
TELT platform announcements
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Bb staff announcements, Bb student announcements, bbstaff, bbstudent, staffannouncements
We are currently working on a process that will enable us to use this blog to post staff and student TELT application announcements (including Blackboard). By assigning each announcement to a relevant category we will be able to pull a feed from that category into other relevant locations including Blackboard modules. Stay tuned for further [...]
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Compulsory Blog Posts
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · 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 [...]