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‘Walking the talk: A model for Academic Staff Professional Development using Moodle’ - Susan Brosnan and Timothy van Drimmelen
The document outlines the Staff Development Gateway project at the University of Southern Queensland, launched to enhance academic staff professional development using Moodle. It transitioned staff-facing resources to an internal solution with accessible, flexible content designed for autonomy and peer engagement. The initiative aims to demonstrate best practices in teaching while providing a mobile-responsive resource hub for staff collaboration.
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- 1. ‘Walking the talk:A model for Academic Staff Professional Development using Moodle’ The Staff Development Gateway Susan Brosnan and Timothy van Drimmelen #mootau14 #usq
- 2. • Regional Universitylocated in Toowoomba approx. 1.5hrs west of Brisbane • Founded in 1967 • A distance education provider since 1977 • Fully online programs since 1997 • 2 Faculties with 11 Schools • More than 200 under-grad and post-grad award programs • Every course has an online presence University of Southern Queensland #mootau14 #usq
- 3. On Campus 7,235 Online 20,000 USQ Staff& Student Statistics Total: 27,235 Source: Sustainable Business Management and Improvement - University of Southern Queensland https://intranet.usq.edu.au/bi/staff/Dashboards/FTE/FTE%20by%20Month.aspx Academic 491 Professional 913 Total: 1404 #mootau14 #usq
- 4. Background to Project Mid2012 a decision was made that no ‘staff’ facing resources would sit on the existing public facing USQ website and should be moved to an internal solution #mootau14 #usq
- 5. USQ’s three Moodleinstances USQStudyDesk • Student Portal • All Course- based activity _____________ USQStaffDesk • Staff portal • Staff facing for PD activities ______________ USQOpenDesk • OER/OEP • Inter- institutional activities _______________ USQ LEARNING OBJECTS REPOSITORY (LOR) #mootau14 #usq
- 6. The Staff DevelopmentGateway Project • 2 part-time .8 staff members (Senior Project Officer and a Technical Project Officer) • Media Services (Graphics, Photography and Multimedia) and Learning Systems and Support • Commenced in November 2012 – October 2013 (11 months) #mootau14 #usq
- 7. Audience and Objectives •Aimed at Academic and Professional Staff • To deliver a solution to house staff facing resources across USQ within the current Learning Management System – Moodle • To promote autonomy • Be flexible and adaptive • Engage and share knowledge with peers • Easy to use and easy to navigate #mootau14 #usq
- 8. Why ________________? • Weteach in it! Nothing new to learn! • Enables us to showcase our excellence • Content can be updated and live ‘instantly’ • Allows for multiple authors (currently 24) (previously only allowed 3) • Demonstrates good practice in our teaching and engages the teacher to become the ‘learner’ • All resources sit within existing collections in the Equella Repository (LOR) #mootau14 #usq
- 9. Project Objectives • Simple,clean interface that doesn’t require the user to ‘think’ • Google – perfect example • Content should be broken into small vignettes of information and not overwhelming • 1/10 second for like/dislike • Should allow for different learning styles, follow the Read it, Watch it, Try it framework #mootau14 #usq
- 10. What is theStaff Development Gateway? • A collection of courses, pages, books and multimedia resources for staff • Currently compliant with tablet devices and should be fully mobile responsive with our next upgrade to Moodle 2.7 – expected by early 2015 • Collaboratively designed as a ‘services’ oriented gateway which showcases the excellence of LTS, LEM, ICT and HR • Demonstrates to the lecturer what’s possible in their courses • Enables relationship building with Academic Staff #mootau14 #usq
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- 12. The Technical Stuff #mootau14#usq HTML (framework) JavaScript (engine) CSS (style) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_GT-R
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- 14. Our Wins andGotcha’s Wins • Creation of the Moodle Page Editor • Moodle Breadcrumbing Manager • Creation of the USQ Vibe • User Interface in development Gotcha’s • No search functionality • Migrating this course, breaks a lot of things #mootau14 #usq
- 15. Questions? Questions for theDeveloper? http://moodlemoot2014.netspot.com.au/ sandpit area - “Walking the Talk: A model for Academic Staff Professional Development using Moodle” #mootau14 #usq
- 16. #mootau14 #usq Timothy vanDrimmelen University of Southern Queensland P: 07 4631 1772 E: timothy.vandrimmelen@usq.edu.au Contact Us Susan Brosnan University of Southern Queensland P: 07 4631 2715 E: brosnan@usq.edu.au
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