Teaching Cloud Campus students: Tips for class recordings
Teaching units for both on-campus students and students studying online requires different approaches to meet the needs of each cohort. While class recordings may form part of the learning experience for students studying online, these need to be provided within a framework of social learning experiences. If class recordings are…
CloudFirst update
Starting in late 2017, the faculty started working with the CloudFirst Redesign Project to redesign eight units from Deakin Law School (Undergraduate units) and eight units from the Deakin Business School (MBA units). The aim of the project was to reimagine and redesign these units for the 21stCentury. It also…
Engagement/Participation: Are they the same and why might it matter?
Those who design and/or teach units know there’s nothing more dispiriting than turning up to class to find you’re the only one there. Or that five students out of 60 have turned up. Some of us blame the students: ‘Students these days are lazy and unmotivated. They expect to be…
CRADLE seminar on students’ digital illiteracy
Tuesday 16 July I attended a CRADLE research seminar by Dr Luci Pangrazio on digital media literacy. Luci highlighted that despite stereotypes about Gen Y and Gen Z students, we cannot make assumptions about their digital literacy as there is often inadequate digital media training in compulsory education. Which is to say, while we may…