Professional Development Calendar

All staff and post-graduate students welcome to this next TLDG Friday lunchtime seminar.

Do you have something to report about teaching and learning in the distance education/online learning context? Perhaps it’s a conference paper which could turn into a journal article, or perhaps something else which might be worth reporting? Or perhaps you are new to university life and haven’t yet thought about what might be required to publish in the field of education.

During this one-hour workshop Dr Mahony will overview the pathway to publication and present some strategies, tips and traps. She will use distance and online education as the demonstration field.

Participants are encouraged to bring a piece of work or data with potential for publication with them to be used as part of a brief workshop activity.

Dr Mahony is a member of the editorial board for the internationally recognised peer-reviewed journal Distance Education. She is currently visiting the Education Development Unit.

Feel free to bring you own lunch along. There’s no need to register.

This workshop is compulsory for all staff that use a Learnline site for their teaching, but is also available to anyone who would like a refresher. These workshops are held prior to the commencement of each semester.

The aim of the workshop is to provide you with:

• an overview of out most recent version of Learnline
• how to choose and use the common tools available to support and motivate student learning including content delivery options, communication tools and assessments online
• information about resources available to you to help you when you are teaching online
• ways to better manage learning resources
• an opportunity for you to ask questions

This workshop will focus on the new Grade Centre that replaces the former Grade Book and a new feature called the Early Warning system. The first part of this workshop will cover how to set up the Grade Centre, learn how to use some of the features and modify the display options. We can then go on to explore how to best work with grades to meet your individual needs. The Early Warning System is a brand new feature to Learnline that allows you to identify those students that may need more help with an area of the course. This is a great tool to assist with student retention as intervention early on can be all that’s needed to keep a student on track.

This workshop is compulsory for all staff that use a Learnline site for their teaching, but is also available to anyone who would like a refresher. These workshops are held prior to the commencement of each semester.

The aim of the workshop is to provide you with:

• an overview of out most recent version of Learnline
• how to choose and use the common tools available to support and motivate student learning including content delivery options, communication tools and assessments online
• information about resources available to you to help you when you are teaching online
• ways to better manage learning resources
• an opportunity for you to ask questions

This workshop will focus on tools within Learnline that assist lecturers to communicate with students, and encourage students to interact with each other such as email, announcements, discussion boards and Wimba voice tools that enable you to record voice messages, podcast audio files, set up voice based discussions and presentations with voice-over. (This workshop will not include how to use the Wimba live classroom). The workshop will provide an overview on the key principles for the effective design and use of these communication tools which includes suggestions for how these tools should be used, how to set up effective discussion tasks, how to encourage participation, techniques in moderation and how to assess online discussions. Participants will look at the features of these tools and how to apply these principles to their teaching and learning context. You will be given access to a Playground site on the practice server where you can see these features in action and test out the new features. As we move through some activities we will also review the performance dashboard which helps you to determine which areas of Learnline students have accessed.

What to bring: If you have a set of headphones with a microphone please bring it along with you, we have limited numbers of these!!

Need assistance with your Learnline unit or course, but unable to attend scheduled workshops? No need to book, just drop in for one-on-one help and advice. These sessions are held in the weeks running up to the TLDG Resource Production deadlines for review of all Learnline sites.

Staff from Resource Production and the Education Development Unit will be on hand to assist you in all areas of Learnline, including:

• upload content into your Learnline Unit
• create announcements
• use folders to structure your content, adding, modifying and deleting content.
• add a URL to your site.
• create links to readings in E-Reserve.
• add staff information.
• use of the WYSIWYG Editor to upload text elements.
• update your current Learnline unit by adding some fresh elements to improve the look and presentation.

Need assistance with your Learnline unit or course, but unable to attend scheduled workshops? No need to book, just drop in for one-on-one help and advice. These sessions are held in the weeks running up to the TLDG Resource Production deadlines for review of all Learnline sites.

Staff from Resource Production and the Education Development Unit will be on hand to assist you in all areas of Learnline, including:

• upload content into your Learnline Unit
• create announcements
• use folders to structure your content, adding, modifying and deleting content.
• add a URL to your site.
• create links to readings in E-Reserve.
• add staff information.
• use of the WYSIWYG Editor to upload text elements.
• update your current Learnline unit by adding some fresh elements to improve the look and presentation.