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July 2019
BCEL Rubric drop-in sessions
These drop-in sessions are hands-on. It is suited for academics with an existing rubric who need to get it aligned with the new faculty rubric framework. Please bring your laptop for this session and complete your rubric design during this time. Register here
Find out more »BCEL Rubric drop-in sessions
These drop-in sessions are hands-on. It is suited for academics with an existing rubric who need to get it aligned with the new faculty rubric framework. Please bring your laptop for this session and complete your rubric design during this time. Register here
Find out more »August 2019
BCEL Engaging Students Using Intelligent Agents in CloudDeakin
CloudDeakin is Deakin University’s cloud learning environment. The Intelligent Agents tool sits within the main learning management system in CloudDeakin. Intelligent Agents allows staff to automatically generate a personalized email to various conditions that may result from within your unit. Intelligent Agents has proven to contribute to assisting with student retention and engagement. This is a practical session where participants will engage in hands-on design and set up of intelligent agents based on good practice examples and to effectively use intelligent agents to support their teaching in the cloud environment. By completing this session, staff should be able to: Identify potential uses of Intelligent Agents as one of many techniques for assisting with student retention and engagement. Identify and activate good practice Intelligent Agent examples in CloudDeakin unit sites. Understand the steps required to set up Intelligent Agents. Understand the various conditions that could be used send out Intelligent Agents. Understand how to personalize Intelligent Agent emails. Manage Intelligent Agents in a CloudDeakin unit site including creating, activating, modifying and removing agents. Know where to get help and support. Useful Resources Deakin Teach Assist website Intelligent Agents Faculty of Business and Law CloudDeakin Minimum Standards (pdf) 2017 Register here
Find out more »LI Learning series – 3
In the previous session, we looked at Constructive alignment. In this session, we will look at how learning design works. Is it important? What are some of the pedagogical underpinnings of some of these design philosophies? Does one size fit all? You will then take a look at MMM211 (you played with this unit in learning series -2) and make an attempt at learning design yourself! This session will be facilitated by Dr Puva P Arumugam and Dr Mahen Jayawardena Register here
Find out more »September 2019
BCEL CloudDeakin – Designing and Teaching in Unit Sites
CloudDeakin is Deakin University's cloud learning environment. CloudDeakin incorporates a range of applications and educational technologies to enable interactive and engaging learning. This is a practical session where participants will engage in hands-on design and set up of a unit site as well as gain ideas to effectively use appropriate tools to support their teaching in the cloud environment. By completing this session, staff should be able to: Use DeakinSync to access CloudDeakin unit and course sites. Incorporate the Faculty CloudDeakin unit site minimum standards into unit design. Design, build and manage learning resources in CloudDeakin. Tools include: Learning Resources, HTML editor with stylesheets, embedding media and using templates. Communicate, collaborate, and engage effectively online. Tools include: video post widget, news items, classlist, discussion forum and topics, calendar, intelligent agents, FAQs, user progress, attendance, selective release, groups tool, class management tool and more. Manage assessment and provide feedback online. Tools include: quizzes, assignment submission dropboxes, feedback, rubrics, grades, Turnitin and video/audio tools. Understand how other CloudDeakin technologies work: EchoSystem, DeakinAir, Cloud Synchronous Classroom tool, Reading List (eReadings), Talis Aspire and WordPress. Know where to get help and support. Useful Resources Faculty of Business and Law CloudDeakin Minimum Standards (pdf) Giving Audio-Video Feedback for Assessment Tasks Deakin Digital Asset Bank Management System (Deakin login required. Junos Pulse required off-site) Image usage on websites and Copyright Please bring your laptop for the session Location – LB5.208 OR *VMP BL 4 39325
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