ASCILITE NEWS

TELedvisors SIG Webinar: Respectful Learning Design

Date: Thursday 2 May 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00PM AEST
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Tom Cotton, Kashmira Dave, Ann Gagne, Stephen Grono, Meredith Hinze and Kate Mitchell will discuss a work in progress in relation to defining respectful, deliberate and sustainable learning design within Higher Education. They will present what such concepts mean in their contexts, and advocate their hopes for the future of learning design and the role our community can play in defining and advocating this for ourselves and continuing an ongoing conversation within our profession.

Learning Design SIG Webinar: Pioneering Partnerships: Integrating Indigenous Insights and Digital Critical Learning in Australian Higher Education

Date: Friday 17 May 2024
Time: 12-1PM AEST
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Join us for a transformative exploration of cutting-edge student partnership models in Australian education. This webinar will commence with an in-depth look at the Digital Critical Student Partnership Learning Design (LD) model drawing upon (Dianati 2023; 2024), a framework that fosters meaningful collaboration between students and educators through digital platforms. In doing so, it provides an audit and benchmark of student partnerships and LD across 39 universities to offer insight into best practices and current uptake Following this, we will delve into an Australian-first initiative: an Indigenous student partnership program tailored specifically to learning design. This pioneering program not only integrates traditional Indigenous knowledge systems into contemporary curricula but also enhances digital and e-learning pedagogies through culturally inclusive practices. Discover how these innovative models are reshaping educational experiences and outcomes across the country.

Special guest: James Neill, Assistant Professor, University of Canberra.

2024 ASCILITE Live! Webinar (in collaboration with Turnitin): Navigating the AI landscape: Mitigating the risk of generative AI misuse

Date: Wednesday 8 May 2024
Time: 4.00 – 5.00pm AEST
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Join us as we delve into the complex realm of academic misconduct, encompassing emerging risks posed by generative AI and the challenges that this, alongside other forms of misconduct, present for upholding academic integrity.

Presenter:
Dr Jasmine Thomas, Associate Director, University of Southern Queensland.

Open Educational Practice Digest – April 2024

Read the latest national and international news from the OEP SIG here.

Recording: LD SIG Webinar: Dialogue in the service of learning design: researching own practice for the benefit of student learning

The presentation discussed the work around the development of pedagogically informed higher education teachers within interdisciplinary teams and the dialogical approaches practiced in this process. Mentoring structures were developed and examples of collaborative efforts to move from early career lecturer to a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy were discussed with emphasis on learning design as it evolves in accordance to characteristics and forms of knowledge within distinct disciplines, assessment practices, quality assurance indicators and linkages to core professional values.

Watch the recording here.

Recording: ASCILITE Live! Webinar: ASCILITE 2023 Innovation Award Winners’ Presentation: myBCom

Watch the 2023 ASCILITE Innovation Award Winners Tam Nguyen, Christine Mathies, and Shannan Maisey discuss myBCom.

This webinar presented the development of myBCom and the unique enhancements made for the Bachelor of Science program.

myBCom is an innovative education approach that systematically integrates classroom learning (measured in assessment tasks) with diverse kinds of co-curricular learning to address the challenge of student professional skills development. myBCom takes a highly learner-centred approach, providing for the full diversity of student learning needs, motivations and engagement. Recognising that students are intellectually, emotionally and socially driven in different ways, the various gamified components give students agency to improve and showcase their performance in personalised ways as their motivations evolve during their degree. myBCom is a transferable solution that has been replicated for the Bachelor of Science program.

Watch the recording here.

OTHER NEWS

ALT conference 2024: Call for submissions

The #ALTC24 Call for Proposals is open until 17:00 BST, Thursday 9 May 2024. Learn more about the themes and submit your proposal on the #ALTC24 website. Don’t miss your chance to share your practice in Manchester 3-5 September 2024.

CRADLE Seminar Series: What happened next? Beyond Emergency Remote Teaching

Date: Wednesday 8 May 2024
Time: 2.00pm-3.30pm (AEST)
Where: This session will be held at Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2, 727 Collins Street, Docklands and online.
Cost: This is a free event
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Join this seminar to hear about the enduring effects of the pandemic on higher education from CRADLE Fellow A/Prof Jaclyn Broadbent

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted traditional methods of teaching and learning within higher education. But what remained when the pandemic passed? While the majority of the literature explores the shifts during the pandemic, with much speculation about post-pandemic futures, a clear understanding of lasting implications remains elusive. To illuminate this knowledge gap, our study contrasts pedagogical practices in matched courses from the pre-pandemic year (2019) to the post-pandemic phase (2022/2023).

Findings indicate a notable increase in online learning activities, authentic and scaffolded assessments, and online unsupervised exams post-pandemic. These changes were primarily driven by university-guided adaptations, time and workload pressures, continued COVID-19 challenges, local leadership, an individual desire to innovate, and concerns about academic integrity. While most changes were seen as favourable by academics, perceptions were less positive concerning online examinations.

Apply for a Deakin University-Coventry University Cotutelle PhD Scholarship now!- ‘Feedback and underperformance in higher education’

The successful PhD Student will be awarded a scholarship from Deakin University with the supervision under Deakin Distinguished Professor David Boud and Coventry University. The PhD Student will graduate with two testamurs, one from Deakin University and one from Coventry University, and the program is for a duration of 4 years.

The successful PhD candidate will investigate the intersections of feedback and performance. Feedback processes are a key driver of learning and attainment in higher education, but there is a suggestion that feedback mostly benefits self-regulating and highly performing students. Significant questions remain around the intersections of feedback and performance. How and with what sort of inputs and processes students engage (or not engage) is poorly understood, especially for those who have low outcomes. Making better sense of feedback practices from the student perspective will support the design of feedback systems that engage students and develop their evaluative judgment. Specifically, we seek to contribute knowledge to how students who receive low outcomes choose to engage, or not, with feedback inputs and processes.

There is an opportunity, through the application process, for applicants to propose their specific focus for the PhD within the outlined scope of research.

For more information about the proposed project please email david.boud@deakin.edu.au

For further information about eligibility, benefits and the applications process,  is available here

Applications are due 5pm, 29 April 2024