News: Remote Learning
Creating Student Groups Using Demographic, Enrolment and Educational Data
It’s well documented that students derive great benefits from working in groups. From increased individual achievement to enhanced communication and professional development skills, students with experience of Group Learning are likely to find themselves better equipped for whatever path they choose after graduation.
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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.
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 is a powerful 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 University of Adelaide 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’d usually give to a learning experience has taken place.
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’t 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?
Preparing for Semester 2
Are you prepared for Semester 2? We have compiled a list of support services and online resources to assist with learning and teaching this semester.
Reflecting on remote learning: A Q&A with Natalia Zarina & John Murphy
Following up on their presentation at the Festival of Learning and Teaching (FoLT), Natalia and John share some insights into what they have learned teaching during the pandemic and how this will influence their teaching going forward.
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Assessing student engagement during times of remote learning
During times of remote learning, the ability to assess student engagement with course content has become increasingly important.
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