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Jennifer Clark (Academic Director, Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
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Innovation in Teaching and Learning Seminar Series
A seminar series exploring innovation in teaching and learning aims to stimulate critical thinking and collegial discussion about recent innovations in teaching and learning. It will provide an important opportunity for UNE staff, students, and the general public to learn about new developments in pedagogy and technology.
- Online Resources Revisit
Some possible resources for you all: YouTube University Academic Earth offers free access to video courses and academic lectures from leading colleges and universities GapMinder provides Videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts of major global development trends with animated statistics in colorful graphics. GapMinder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet [more...] - Moodle: Randomising Quiz/Test Questions
Many of you are increasingly providing your students with online quiz/test(s) with a number of randomised Qs from a question bank/pool e.g. 20 from a pool of 40 etc, etc. This is a great pedagogical strategy on a number of levels, well done! There is a limitational aspect to this that I would like to [more...] - Confirmation of the open date for T2 2012 units
Dr Michael Crock (PVC EII) has advised that the release date for T2 units will be Tuesday 12 June. As Monday 11/6 is a public holiday and support will not be available this is the closest practical time to open units that is in line with policy.
- DeHub Summit Learning to Teach online videos
Colleagues Last week I spent some very productive time at the Distance Education Summit conference in Sydney. There were lots of new ideas for me to bring back home and I want to share some of these with you over the next few blog posts. The first post is about the learning to teach online [more...] - Experience of first year students at UNE
Colleagues I am interested in exploring the experience of first year students at university and this year I hope to encourage us all to look more carefully at curriculum design for first year students. There are a number of issues here but the main issue is helping students make the transition from high school, or [more...]