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Remember to keep checking in on the Professional Development section of the Bb site for a long list of seminars and workshops coming up this month from across the globe! Here are some...
2 Oct, 1pm - 3pm - Instructional design series: 2 – Designing interactive self-paced learning materials
This is the second workshop in a three-workshop Instructional Design series designed to provide teachers with the necessary processes and techniques for systematic instructional design of online learning. This is especially applicable for teachers who are planning to develop new online learning packages, incorporate online learning into their papers or to redesign existing papers by incorporating more student-centred learning strategies. To register
6 - 20 Oct, 12.15pm - 1.15pm - Introduction to the Pacific Cultural Centredness Pathway
This interactive course provides participants with an opportunity to get inside the minds and hearts of the Pacific Island learner through exploring and understanding the four important values and principles that guide our engaging and learning. Each course consists of a workshop delivered face-to-face or by video conference, followed by optional four-week facilitator support. This support is in the form of a community of professional learning. It is self-paced and takes a minimum of 1-2 hours of engagement per week. For more information
7 October, 7am - 8am (UTC / GMT) - Examiner judgement in competency based assessment
The session explores the consistency of examiners' judgements on the robustness of the decisions made in high-stakes summative competency-based assessment (CBA). Strategies for mitigating inconsistencies are explored. Examples from medical education are used.
This is the third workshop in a three-workshop Instructional Design series designed to provide teachers with the necessary processes and techniques for systematic instructional design of online learning. This is especially applicable for teachers who are planning to develop new online learning packages, incorporate online learning into their papers or to redesign existing papers by incorporating more student-centred learning strategies. For more information...
12 Oct - 2 Nov, 12-1pm - Leaders growing leaders
This course explores individual and group understandings of the concept of leadership and provides tools and processes that support leadership growth in self and others. This course takes place online over four weeks and includes three one-hour, online webinars. In total, this course should take an average of 10 hours of learning. For more information...
To mark CRADLE's fifth anniversary, Deakin University’s Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) is hosting a higher education research conference from 19 to 20 October 2020. The conference aims to provide a focused forum for higher education research as a discipline. Cutting-edge conversations will center around rigorous, high-quality conceptual and theoretical contributions exploring the future of higher education research in a post digital age. Keynote speakers are Professor Monika Nerland (University of Oslo) and Associate Professor Alyssa Wise (New York University)... For more information...
Oct 21, 12:00 PM (NZT) - It is the worst—and the best—of times!
For many of us with affection for the machinery of conventional campus-based education, this is the worst of times. From Melbourne to Manchester, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the disruption of entire education ecosystems. Economies and businesses that have thrived on the education industry are in turmoil, and many may never recover. Vanguards of the campus-based learning experience from Cambridge to Yale, which have thrived on their age-old traditions and reputations of small-group teaching and the campus-based experience, announced that they are locking up and taking their learning and teaching operations online. As a result, almost overnight... For more information...
22nd Oct - 12th Nov, 5pm-6pm - Effective assessment that supports learning
Understand NZQA’s Principles of Assessment, develop assessment design skills by applying a best practice assessment framework to critically evaluate and refine assessments tasks. This course takes place online over four weeks and includes three one-hour, online Zoom sessions. In total, this course should take an average of 10 hours of learning. For more information...
28 Oct - 11 Nov, 12.15pm - 1.15pm - Enhancing Pacific Cultural Capability
This course builds on the learning in the Introduction to the Pacific Cultural Centredness Pathway workshop to lift the gaze above just greetings and pronunciations, to help align your approaches to each Pacific island group. This course consists of two online video conferences, as well as four-weeks of facilitator support. This support is in the form of a community of professional learning. It is self-paced and takes a minimum of 1-2 hours of engagement per week. For more Information...