How can we create a better learning experience for our learners? How can we create more engaging learning without the overhead for course creators and academics?

1. Personalised
learning & exemplary
course design
Grant Beevers/David Isaacson:
Blackboard

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About your presenters
Grant Beever
• Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, APAC
• Based in Brisbane
David Isaacson
• Solutions Engineer, Blackboard, APAC
• Based in Melbourne

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Client feedback
• How can we create a better learning experience
for our learners?
• How can we create more engaging learning
without the overhead for course creators and
academics?
• How can our educational technology products
support personalised learning?

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Workshop goals
• By the end of the workshop you will:
–Have a deeper understanding of personalised learning (PL)
–Learn about technological tools that support PL
–Understand how these tools can support exemplary course design
PL Tools Course design

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Brainstorm (10 min.)
Divide into small groups
Address the question: “What do you understand by Personalised Learning?”
Identify keywords
Use graphics, colour, mind maps
Each group presents a 2 min. summary to the whole group

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Introduction to tools for personalising learning
Demonstration – selected tools
Moodle/Moodlerooms
1. Competency framework
2. Workshops – Peer review activities
3. Personalised Learning Designer
4. Kaltura video Assignment
5. Snap
6. Collaborate
7. Moodle Mobile
Task: Annotate your
chart to show how
these tools link to
your definitions

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ADDIE Instructional Design Model
Evaluate
Analyse
Design
Develop
Impement

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Exemplary Course Design Framework
• Course Design: course structure, learning objects, instructional strategies
• Interaction & Collaboration: type and amount of interaction and collaboration,
specifically learner-learner, learner-content, and learner-instructor interaction and
collaboration
• Assessment: evaluation of student work towards achievement of learning
outcomes, including quality and type of assessments
• Learner Support: resources made available to students (accessible internal and
external to course)
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References
• 5 eLearning Trends Leading to the End of the Learning Management System
https://elearningindustry.com/5-elearning-trends-leading-to-the-end-of-the-learning-management-
system
• Creating a Custom Classroom for Every Learner: How Smart Authoring Tools Enable Active,
Adaptive Learning
http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2016/20/
Bennie Johnson, 2016
• The Sage Handbook of E-Learning Research, 2e
Haythornthwaite, Caroline, Andrews, Richard, Fransman, Jude, and Meyers, Erick M, SAGE, 2016
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