BE-SIG Webinar: Technology Enhanced Responsible Management Education
2021-05-11 10:00 - 11:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Singapore/Hong Kong 8am | Auckland 12pm | Other time zones
Webinar jointly co-hosted by ASCILITE Business Education SIG, PRME ANZ Chapter and ABEN Ethics Education SIG
Presented by Assoc Prof Harsh Suri & Mr Vivek Venkiteswaran (Deakin University) along with Assoc Prof Christian Schott (Victoria University Wellington)
This presentation will commence with Harsh and Vivek who will discuss how TPCK framework (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) offers a useful theoretical lens for harnessing the power of digitalization for scaffolding meaningful integration of SDGs into mainstream business curricula. TPCK framework is commonly used in educational technology to adopt a holistic, nuanced and context-sensitive approach for integrating technology, pedagogy and content knowledge to achieve deep transformational learning. We will discuss how SDGs should become a pervasive context within which we transform Business Education using affordances of digitalization.
Next, Christian will discuss why he sees a place, and indeed a need for technology, to support education for sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His presentation will promote experiential education as a key pedagogy for a VUCA world and make the case that situating learning in its appropriate geographical, cultural and social context is an important ingredient. Utilising gaming software and digital immersion technology Christian and his team have developed two sustainability-focused learning tools, one ‘taking’ students to an island in Fiji and the other to Machu Picchu Pueblo in Peru. Although the latter was developed for Secondary schools it will be used as an example during the presentation.
Download: Webinar participants are invited to experience the learning tool prior to the presentation by downloading the software here. Please note that this tool is home-made and low budget but it does work! You will be asked for a few details before downloading.
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ASCILITE Live! Webinar - Review and Showcase of Smart Learning Environments
2021-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Blackboard Collaborate, Online, Brisbane, QLD, 5000, Australia
Singapore/Hong Kong 9am | Auckland 1pm | Other time zones
Review and Showcase of Smart Learning Environments
Enabled by various pedagogical and technological innovations, brand new learning environments can be created to support teaching and learning. They are collectively referred as the commonly known “smart learning environments”. A smart learning environment is conceptualized as a learning environment that emphasizes learning flexibility, effectiveness, efficiency, engagement, adaptivity, and reflectiveness, where both formal learning and informal learning are integrated. Embracing a variety of concepts, including personalized learning, intelligent tutoring, adaptive learning, blended learning, collaborative learning, and open online learning, and many more, there are obviously no single form of smart learning environments. As new concepts, approaches, methods and technologies continue to evolve, there are always new opportunities for advancing the learning environments.
This webinar aims to review the latest development of smart learning practices and showcase a number of successful implementations for knowledge exchange and experience sharing with researchers and practitioners in the field.
Presentations
Overview of smart learning environments, and introduction of the presenters (10 min)
Simon K.S. Cheung (The Open University of Hong Kong)*
Presentation 1 : Patterns and trends of smart learning practices (10 min)
Kam Cheong Li (The Open University of Hong Kong)
Presentation 2 : Game-based learning of information literacy (10 min)
Ruofei Zhang (The Education University of Hong Kong)
Presentation 3 : Automatic speech recognition for EFL learners (10 min)
Michael Jiang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Presentation 4 : Smart learning in extra-curricular activities (10 min)
Lam For Kwok (City University of Hong Kong)*
Future development of smart learning environments, and thank the presenters (10 min)
Fu Lee Wang (The Open University of Hong Kong)*
* Guest editors of the AJET Special Issue on “Smart Learning Environments”

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TELedvisors webinar – Postgraduate showcase: focus on edvisors in the ‘third space’
2021-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online
This webinar showcases current doctoral research, focusing on (TEL)edvising in the third space.
Evonne Irwin is currently the Convenor of the Open Foundation (Online) enabling/pathways program at the University of Newcastle. Her presentation will be about professional identities, power/s and mis/recognitions of university workers who do not easily fit into academic/professional binary classifications: ‘third space professionals’.
Dr Natalia Veles (James Cook University) has extensive experience in higher education, vocational education and international education management. She has worked in strategic leadership positions worldwide, including Russia, China, New Zealand and Vietnam. She will present what motivates professional staff to work together with academic colleagues across various boundaries and what cross-boundary competences they view as critical in collaboration.
Which factors shape the way edvisors work in Higher Ed in Australia? With academics and managers? With each other? Colin Simpson (Monash University) is researching these factors, ranging from role types and classifications to what difference the name of your unit makes on how understood and valued you feel. Some of the data that emerged in a survey he undertook recently in the TELedvisors community.
Karin Barac (Griffith University) will present on her exploration of the intersection of context, pedagogy, and technology in Australian higher education academic coursework.
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