In 2020 Jabed Chowdhury was awarded a small L&T grant from the College of SHE. His project, Capture the Flag, uses gamification to teach cybersecurity students to find security holes (flags) in a vulnerable machine. The student/team with the highest number of flags wins.
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In this 9 minute video Caroline Taylor and Jarrod Church (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology) describe how they used H5P branching scenarios to put together online practicals for their second year physiology students. They also talk about what they learned from the process.
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Congratulations to the most recent round of successful HEA applicants from La Trobe University. HEA Fellowships are an international recognition of a commitment to professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education. In total, there were 11 successful applicants.
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In this video Linda Ward and Fung Lay (Department of Biochemistry and Genetics) talk about their positive experience with co-teaching online during 2020 and the impact it had on student engagement, building a real sense of community and their own personal satisfaction.
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Education Services have put together a self-paced, ten-minute video resource designed to give you practical tips and tricks around effective feedback practice. It addresses the practical needs of teaching staff and is informed by current research in feedback for learning and feedback literacy skills.
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Education Services are seeking Expressions of Interest from staff to participate in the upcoming Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowships cohort. This cohort will be leadership-focussed, and therefore targeted at those wishing to apply for Senior Fellowship, and Principal Fellowship only.
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ASCILITE has teamed with D2L to offer research/scholarship grants to ASCILITE members to fund research and/or development of projects in the area of technology enhanced learning and teaching in higher education. $10,000 is available for projects in 2021-2022.
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Student Feedback Survey (SFS) scores for January-June 2021 are in and the results for the College of SHE are fantastic! The overall mean score is up from 4.09 in the first half of 2020, to 4.12 in 2021. In addition, the Question 8 mean score is up from 4.06 to 4.09. What an amazing achievement!!
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Education Services have several workshops planned for the month of August. This includes: LMS design for effective mixed-mode learning, VC teaching awards workshop, student polling – best tools and practices, feedback for learning and much more.
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Are you looking for a fun way to help your students build connections with each other? The That’s What SHE Said blog has shared a great suggestion called 3 Good Pics. Weekly, in pairs, students take 3 photos when they feel good and then meet up (online or face-to-face) to share the photos.
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