Designers' Community of Practice - Connections

Monday 16 September 2019

Designers' Community of Practice - Connections

The Educational Innovation team is pleased to present Designers' Community of Practice - Connections. If you are an Educational Designer, Educational Support Officer or have a role and interest in educational design please come along and join our colleagues who will showcase their projects, insights and knowledge in the broad area of what is educational design.

 

MPLF participants - 

Designers' Community of practice - Connections is the face-to-face session for Module 17 of the Modular Professional Learning Framework (MPLF). Please register at the bottom of this page for the session. Attendance will be recorded at the session for the purpose of module completion requirements.

The wonderful world of digital exams

Health Sciences, as well as other schools in Medicine and Health, are using a range of technologies and approaches for digital exams. We use: online invigilation with AI to aid in cheating detection; lockdown browsers for BYOD exams and computer lab exams; and have begun trailing a new platform to improve the academic work of writing formative and summative questions. We are also preparing to offer laptops and iPads for exams in the new Susan Wakil Health Building, currently in the final stage of construction. Come to this presentation to find out about our successes and challenges during the trial and implementation of these technologies and approaches.

 

Tina Barclay has worked in HE for a long time in Australia, the UK and Canada.

Social learning tools and working collaboratively on the LX Transformation at UTS

The LX Transformation at UTS is a program to improve the digital learning and teaching experience for staff and students. This involves consolidating teaching systems into a single LMS, and taking a course-led design approach in which educational designers work with teaching teams to improve consistency across subjects. As part of the technology investigation for this project, social learning tools were identified as a key requirement for the university's educational landscape. From the outset, this proved to have a very broad scope but as we gathered more user requirements from students and staff, three distinct fields of activity for social learning tools emerged. Come to this short presentation to find out what they were and to discuss how we can support social learning in higher education. 

 

David Yeats spent a decade teaching ESL before stepping into Educational Design. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Digital Education from the University of Edinburgh and working at UTS's LX.lab as a Learning Design and Technology Specialist on their LX Transformation project.

Event details

  • Monday 16 September 2019
    2.00pm - 4.00pm

  • Physics Road, Learning Hub Seminar Room G19 (TBL)

  • Please bring your laptops


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