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Designing online demonstrations
As we come to the end of 2020 and begin to prepare courses for 2021, it might be time to try something new in your online delivery, particularly for courses that are being delivered in the Remote and Dual teaching modes. An incredibly useful teaching technique is to provide them with demonstrations, modeling for students the process of completing a task and the skills and techniques involved.听
Top 10 Tips for setting up your course for success
Continuing student enrolments commence from 1 December. At the same time courses will be released in MyUni, ready to be set up for teaching.
So, why wait? Make the most of this time to set up some basic items ahead of the study period.
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Mobius
Mobius听is a powerful听platform that supports innovative teaching, learning and assessment design. It is particularly suited to STEM subjects but can be used effectively and creatively across disciplines.
What is an Online Short Course?
The 成人大片 is investing in a range of learning products to meet a variety of contemporary needs. One of these learning products is Online Short Courses or OSCs.
(Re)Designing Online Lectures
The rapid and chaotic response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the learning and teaching space is something that should be applauded and learned from. The side effects of rapidly flipping face-to-face courses to online delivery modes has meant that (understandably) - not all of the consideration, time and quality assurance we鈥檇 usually give to a learning experience has taken place.听
Mixed Cohort Tutorials
So, you have a dilemma: you have 30 students and normally run 3 tutorials of 10 each, but 5 students are remote. You can鈥檛 afford to run a fourth with only remote students. You need to include them in the 3rd tutorial. But how can it be done in a way that feels like the remote and face to face students are connected as one, are equally engaged in the tutorial, and getting a quality learning experience?
What can we do about reviving languages and why it matters
To celebrate the release of this new book, Revivalistics:听From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond,听we spoke to Professor Ghil鈥檃d Zuckermann about听what inspired his love for revivalistics, how the events of 2020 will impact language revival and what needs to be done to stop languages from becoming extinct.
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Establishing best practice on the use of recorded lectures: a Q&A with Associate Professor Dimitra Lekkas
Associate Professor Dimitra Lekkas shares听findings from her 2019听Learning Enhancement & Innovation Grant:听鈥淒oes attendance at live lectures and use of recordings matter to student learning?鈥
AdelaideX reaches 1 million MOOC enrolments!
The 成人大片鈥檚 open digital learning initiative, AdelaideX has been providing access to free online education pathways for听learners worldwide since 2015.
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How to set up assignments to assist in identifying at-risk students
Students鈥 early online activity and assessment grades produce valuable data points that help us to predict which students are at risk of failing and potentially attriting from the University.听
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