Technology Demonstrators

SESSION DETAILS

1. Welcome! Follow up from Sept 22 CoP - Collaboration and Collaborative Learning Environments ongoing discussion
2. Our focus for this meeting is Getting Started with Evaluation - edtech intervention, tools, student engagement, and more!
3. Engaging with TechDems - SIGs and LTA support for course intervention application process.
4. Approaches to evaluating edtech and interventions for improved learning and teaching: Digital learning frameworks, evaluation rubrics
5. Guest speakers - USQ academics share approaches to evaluation and evaluating edtech interventions in their courses
6. Discussion.
7. News, updates and opportunities.

SLIDES - with linked resources

Full meeting RECORDING (1:14:26) (and embedded below)

Pre-course exploration and evaluation:

• how do you know if an edtech tool or L&T approach will 'work' in your course?

In-course evaluation:

• ongoing process - design cycle
• student feedback
• data collection, analytics

Post-course evaluation:

• outcomes and impact
• student success

CoP guest speakers (separate videos below) share ideas and experiences and lead discussion around evaluaiton.

Dr Melissa Forbes provides an introduction to this framework that could potentially be used with edtech interventions.

Dr Bronte van der Hoorn shares her experience with edtech interventions in a postgrad course. (Use of Voicethread, Padlet, H5P and Adobe Spark)

Dr Nathan Beel reveals challenges associated with implementing ePortfolios using Create@USQ and shares lessons learned for future development.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

• MS Teams for Teaching - launched and heading towards a pilot in Sem 3 & Sem 1
• Student Engagement SIG - launching October
• ePortfolios SIG - supporting the Create@USQ WordPress implementation - will convene in this new format soon

L&T Assistance for course interventions

• You are invited to apply for L&T assistance for an edtech course intervention through this APPLICATION Form

TechDem MS Teams - JOIN IN

• Ongoing conversations
• Be part of a SIG
• Share resources

Padlet - cross-university subscription

• Coming very soon - your own Padlet subscription via USQ

Engageli pilot

• Coming soon - an opportunity to pilot Engageli in your course

Upcoming immersive opportunity

The iSee interactive and virtual platform is one that USQ has engaged with in the past and again more recently. TechDem participants are invited to participate in a virtual professional learning event within the iSee platform designed specifically for USQ. Date and time to be announced - don't miss this opportunity!

Digital Learning Frameworks facilitate the evaluation of digital learning practices and environments, some of which also lead to accreditation and recognition of innovative professional practice.

• TELAS - Technology Enhanced Learning Accreditation Standards (ASCILITE)

• Framework PDF

• ACODE - The Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning

• Benchmarks for Technology Enhanced Learning

• ACODE TEL Framework - Online template to copy and use

Reporting on digital practice for teaching and learning:

• NMC Horizon Report

• Trends

• Key technologies and practices - useful ‘top 6’ list with resources

• Future scenarios (read Transformation p. 36)

Education Technology Evaluation and Selection Rubric

Purposefully built for USQ in 2020

Includes the Educational Technology Evaluation Purchase Chart

How do we align this with the Academic Plan and USQ strategy?

PADLETS - share and contribute

• Education Technology Tools
• Education Technology Pedagogy/Andragogy - See the NEW Collaborative Learning resources.

ALL CoP sessions are on a Wednesday, every 2 weeks, from 1-2:30pm AEST. They are held in this Zoom Room.

...and sometimes we might jump into another online learning environment to try it out.

Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research and ethical considerations as well as next steps such as applying for university grants programs.

• October 20

Explore new and existing technologies for learning and teaching at USQ.

• November 3

Smores to explore - full of great ideas and resources.

• TechDem CoP Sept 22, 2021 - PEDAGOGY
• TechDem CoP Sept. 8 2021 - TOOLS
• TechDem CoP Aug.17 2021 - Information session

Dr Julie Lindsay

Senior Education Technology Advisor

Email: julie.lindsay@usq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 46312890