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This session explores an analytics toolset for timely online teaching intervention. The application titled "iLearn Insights" was designed to assist academic staff in understanding levels of student engagement on online units within the Moodle LMS by selecting an appropriate combination of student unit access, assignment on time submission and or achieving above a required grade.… Continue reading →

This virtual symposium is a joint collaboration between the TELedvisors ASCILITE and HERDSA Academic Development SIGs (Special Interest Groups). Attendees will need to register via Eventbrite. In the response to COVID-19, higher education rapidly shifted its teaching and learning online. E-learning support and academic developers were at the front of supporting these efforts. In this… Continue reading →

Designing for effective and efficient pedagogical interventions and orchestration in complex Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) ecosystems is an increasingly challenging issue. In spite of the significant potential of Learning Analytics (LA) research, it is still unclear how can LA be designed to position teachers as designers of effective interventions and orchestration actions. This talk argues for… Continue reading →

Sharing lessons in educational technology: what can schools and universities learn from each other? Many students go from school into tertiary education, but what is their experience of educational technology as they make that transition? How can we draw from each others’ work to improve learning environments and match students' needs and expectations? What can… Continue reading →

Sponsored by ASCILITE, the Australian Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group (or OEPSIG, for short) is a practitioner-facilitated community designed to bring open educators (primarily those in higher education) together to explore issues of common interest, collaborate on shared projects, undertake research, and to advocate for the place of OEP in national L&T discussions, strategy, and policy.  This… Continue reading →