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Building the Digital Humanities Lab

Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library

Around the world Digital Humanities Labs have helped connect researchers with digital collections, provided training in new research techniques, and stimulated cross-disciplinary collaboration. In 2020 the University Library has stepped up support for digital humanities, and is working towards the establishment of a Lab as part of that. We want your input as we build a program of activities and consider options for future facilities, so we can make sure this initiative is supporting your research and teaching, and helping us stretch our ambitions for the future.

Evidence-based strategies to keep your learners motivated and engaged while studying online

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Location: Delivered online

Join us to discover how learners are responding to the current environment of remote and online learning. During this session we will share insights and strategies you can apply to and design for, and facilitate, a successful learning and teaching experience.

Preparing students for success in online assessment: ADEPT Workshop

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Via Zoom

In this session we will consider what techniques you can start using now to prepare students for success in online assessments. We will look at a sample MyUni exam course with different question types and share various approaches to ensuring students know how to prepare for assessments such as online, open-resource exams. You will be able to discuss ways to foster academic integrity and wellbeing with colleagues.

Teaching Specialist positions: creating elite teachers or an academic under-class in Australia’s research-intensive Universities

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Via Zoom

Teaching-specialist positions, with workloads between 60% - 100% of teaching and teaching-related duties, have become increasingly prevalent in the Australian academic workforce in the 21st century. These positions represented a worldwide trend towards the “fragmentation”, “unbundling”, “segmentation” and “specialisation” of academic work. This webinar presents research that used narrative and thematic history approaches based on publicly available documentary resources to examine the commitment to teaching quality in Australia’s publicly funded research-intensive universities (Go8). Critical analysis focused on globalisation, neoliberalism, New Public Management, and Australian Government higher education policy. Go8 universities claimed that they offered opportunities for scholarship and leadership, which suggested that they were of equal value and reward to teaching-research roles. This research sought to assess why Go8 universities adopted teaching specialist positions and whether they delivered the benefits that were claimed.

Preparing for the future

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Online - link to be provided upon registration

Higher Ed Services (HES) is pleased to offer a series of five virtual events during July and August that aim to bring together people from across the higher education sector to probe topics of particular significance to ensuring quality outcomes in learning and teaching.

Discover the Gale Digital Scholar Lab - Workshop 1

Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Location: Via Zoom - details to be sent upon registration

Please join us for an introduction to the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, an online environment where you can use digital tools to explore and analyse content from the Gale archives and databases. Pairing the Lab’s computational analysis tools with high-quality content from GALE Primary Sources allows researchers to identify previously undiscovered data, test theories and provide solutions to issues and challenges. Recent updates to the Gale Lab make it possible for users to upload their own content and analyse this using the tools in the Lab, or cross analyse with data from Gale’s Primary Source Archives

Discover the Gale Digital Scholar Lab - Workshop 2

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Location: Via Zoom - details to be sent upon registration

Please join us for an introduction to the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, an online environment where you can use digital tools to explore and analyse content from the Gale archives and databases. Pairing the Lab’s computational analysis tools with high-quality content from GALE Primary Sources allows researchers to identify previously undiscovered data, test theories and provide solutions to issues and challenges. Recent updates to the Gale Lab make it possible for users to upload their own content and analyse this using the tools in the Lab, or cross analyse with data from Gale’s Primary Source Archives

Online Exams Webinar - Your MyUni Options

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom - link to be sent closer to event date

This webinar will introduce you to “what” options you have available when deciding how to deliver your exams using MyUni.

Online Exams Webinar - Your MyUni Options

Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Zoom - link to be sent closer to event date

This webinar will introduce you to “what” options you have available when deciding how to deliver your exams using MyUni.

ADEPT Designing Engaging Learning Environments - Day 1

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Location: Via Zoom - details to be sent upon registration

The Designing Engaging Learning Environments module aims to highlight aspects of learner diversity to educators and professionals that support teaching by providing information on how to design engaging learning environments, both face to face and online. We will be discussing how you can apply inclusive practices to facilitate academic success among diverse cohorts and design approaches to modify teaching to engage students with diverse learning needs. A proportion of the workshop will also be dedicated to being responsive to our current teaching context therefore exploring the impact of technology-enabled learning experiences and how you can use online design elements to facilitate effective learning experiences online.

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