PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ACADEMIC AND GENERAL STAFF: INTEGRATED ELEARNING

As part of the University’s strategy to improve the learning experience of students across the physical and virtual learning spaces, the University is continually upgrading its elearning systems. These systems provide an aggregated educational function to support the student experience of learning.

Sydney eLearning is currently running workshops that aim to support academic and general staff to become familiar with the role of the university elearning enterprise systems and their relationship to integrated curriculum planning.

The workshops focus on the range of teaching and learning tools available in these systems and how they support communication, collaboration, assessment, presentation and administration. These systems include, but are not limited to, the university learning management system, ePortfolios, eCommunities, Adobe Connect, Lectopia and Sydney mail.

Register for a workshop by clicking on the link in the right-hand menu. Upon registration to a workshop, you will be allocated a Learn Playground site for experimentation. You will be notified of these details prior to the workshop.

Upcoming Workshops

Fundamentals workshops comprise a 2 hour introduction to the university Learning Management System. The introductory workshop investigates strategies for enhancing the student learning experience by exploring the functionality of the university Learning Management System (LMS).

Alternatively, the 2 hour refresher workshops for those who have attended a previous focus workshop and are needing to refresh their understanding of the functionality and utilisation of specific tools within the university Learning Management System (LMS).

Focus workshops are 2 hour workshops that cover in detail, the assessment, grading, communication and collaborative functionality of the LMS and how these support the integration of teaching with other elearning systems to enhance the student experience of learning.

The University LMS is one of a number of components of the virtual learning space and the student experience involves the integration of these components with the formal and informal learning environments (physical learning space).

Extension workshops have a strong focus on best practice in teaching in an integrated environment. These workshops investigate how the university elearning systems, including the university learning management system, ePortfolios, eCommunities, Adobe Connect and Lectopia, allow for advanced levels of communication, collaboration, assessment, presentation and administration across the university's virtual and physical learning spaces.

It is strongly recommended that staff have attended a Focus workshop before registering for an Extension workshop.