This document discusses using visual representations to enhance student learning of plot diagramming. It provides instructions for an integration activity where students identify a topic that can be taught using visuals combined with other instructional elements. Examples of a plot diagram are included with labels for exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, characters, setting, conflict, protagonist, and antagonist.
The ADDIE is a framework that is used to develop training courses. The ADDIE can be traced back to the mid-1970s, and it has evolved several times since then. These slides are a quick summary of the model.
We created this UX adoption maturity model after spending 15 years observing how organisations struggle with the challenges associated with developing a UX capability. We use the maturity model when helping organisations develop a strategy and roadmap and are happy for you to use this in your own organisations, providing we are credited.
Organisations appear to go through five stages of maturity: ignorant, emergent, engaging, committed and embedded
We considered these stages against 5 criteria:
Organisation culture
UX ownership
How the ‘user’ is viewed
Tools and techniques
Budget
The following slides describe the different stages of maturity for each criteria.
Ingrid Domingues and Johan Berndtsson - Great UX is Here (From Business to Bu...inUse
In this talk, we’ll present five components that are vital if you want to generate value for your organization. Guess what? It’s all about UX. Wether you need to optimise an existing business, or innovate completely new solutions and offerings, great UX is what will make the difference. So join us - and put your business on the road to UX nirvana.
Learning Experience Design (ATD 2016 ICE W316)Chan Lee
The document discusses learning experience design and learner behaviors based on a presentation by Jay Chon and Chan Lee. Some key points:
- Learners expect immersive, on-demand learning experiences like popular apps, but learning experiences are often lacking.
- Mobile apps see much higher engagement than mobile web. Learning needs a mobile presence.
- Popular apps are social, entertainment, or utility focused. Learning does not feature highly.
- Data from 400+ companies shows mobile learners spend more time and are more engaged than web learners.
- Experience design should understand learner personas, map the learning journey, and define metrics for improvement.
Administrators applying technology to schooleholmes45
This document provides recommendations for administrators to successfully integrate technology in schools. It suggests that administrators should work with teachers to become proficient with technology, advocate the benefits to build confidence, and showcase examples to other teachers. It also advises assembling a team of teachers experienced with technology integration to advise others and serve as examples to generate excitement about technological tools.
This reflective slide document summarizes Ryan Hutchinson's learning experiences in a technical writing class. It covers 6 units: communicating with employers, documenting procedures, usability, proposing solutions to decision makers, presentations, and reflection. Key lessons included creating professional documents, conducting usability tests, solving problems in a team environment, and incorporating design elements into presentations. Hutchinson concludes that technical writing skills will be applicable to all documents created throughout their career.
This document discusses evaluating technology implementation programs in schools. It provides several reasons for evaluating such programs, including determining if the programs are an effective use of funding and if they improve student outcomes. The document also discusses what can happen if programs are not evaluated, such as an inability to show what is and is not working. It then offers guidance on developing an evaluation plan, including determining the program purpose and goals and identifying measurable indicators and data sources. An example is provided of evaluating a program intended to improve math results for all students. The document introduces the CITEd EdTech Locator tool, which can help schools assess their progress in implementing technology and set goals. It emphasizes that evaluating progress toward goals requires monitoring each stakeholder group.
This document discusses using visual representations to enhance student learning of plot diagramming. It provides instructions for an integration activity where students identify a topic that can be taught using visuals combined with other instructional elements. Examples of a plot diagram are included with labels for exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, characters, setting, conflict, protagonist, and antagonist.
The ADDIE is a framework that is used to develop training courses. The ADDIE can be traced back to the mid-1970s, and it has evolved several times since then. These slides are a quick summary of the model.
We created this UX adoption maturity model after spending 15 years observing how organisations struggle with the challenges associated with developing a UX capability. We use the maturity model when helping organisations develop a strategy and roadmap and are happy for you to use this in your own organisations, providing we are credited.
Organisations appear to go through five stages of maturity: ignorant, emergent, engaging, committed and embedded
We considered these stages against 5 criteria:
Organisation culture
UX ownership
How the ‘user’ is viewed
Tools and techniques
Budget
The following slides describe the different stages of maturity for each criteria.
Ingrid Domingues and Johan Berndtsson - Great UX is Here (From Business to Bu...inUse
In this talk, we’ll present five components that are vital if you want to generate value for your organization. Guess what? It’s all about UX. Wether you need to optimise an existing business, or innovate completely new solutions and offerings, great UX is what will make the difference. So join us - and put your business on the road to UX nirvana.
Learning Experience Design (ATD 2016 ICE W316)Chan Lee
The document discusses learning experience design and learner behaviors based on a presentation by Jay Chon and Chan Lee. Some key points:
- Learners expect immersive, on-demand learning experiences like popular apps, but learning experiences are often lacking.
- Mobile apps see much higher engagement than mobile web. Learning needs a mobile presence.
- Popular apps are social, entertainment, or utility focused. Learning does not feature highly.
- Data from 400+ companies shows mobile learners spend more time and are more engaged than web learners.
- Experience design should understand learner personas, map the learning journey, and define metrics for improvement.
Administrators applying technology to schooleholmes45
This document provides recommendations for administrators to successfully integrate technology in schools. It suggests that administrators should work with teachers to become proficient with technology, advocate the benefits to build confidence, and showcase examples to other teachers. It also advises assembling a team of teachers experienced with technology integration to advise others and serve as examples to generate excitement about technological tools.
This reflective slide document summarizes Ryan Hutchinson's learning experiences in a technical writing class. It covers 6 units: communicating with employers, documenting procedures, usability, proposing solutions to decision makers, presentations, and reflection. Key lessons included creating professional documents, conducting usability tests, solving problems in a team environment, and incorporating design elements into presentations. Hutchinson concludes that technical writing skills will be applicable to all documents created throughout their career.
This document discusses evaluating technology implementation programs in schools. It provides several reasons for evaluating such programs, including determining if the programs are an effective use of funding and if they improve student outcomes. The document also discusses what can happen if programs are not evaluated, such as an inability to show what is and is not working. It then offers guidance on developing an evaluation plan, including determining the program purpose and goals and identifying measurable indicators and data sources. An example is provided of evaluating a program intended to improve math results for all students. The document introduces the CITEd EdTech Locator tool, which can help schools assess their progress in implementing technology and set goals. It emphasizes that evaluating progress toward goals requires monitoring each stakeholder group.
Project management and 702010 blended learning programsSprout Labs
The design, development and delivery of 70:20:10 blended learning programs presents a unique mix of challenges. They often involve a complex mixture of digital technologies, change management and culture management.
These slides are our from our webinar on project management and 702010 blended learning programs.
Mindset Matters: How to Improve Your Virtual Facilitation StyleCynthia Clay
This document describes six different virtual facilitation styles - News Anchor, Energizer Bunny, Podcaster, Technology Guru, Airplane Pilot, and Guide on the Side. For each style, it provides an overview of characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, and tips for reflection. The goal is to help virtual facilitators identify their dominant style and ways to enhance their approach based on strengths of different styles. Participants are prompted to consider how elements of each style could improve their own virtual facilitation.
The document is a skills audit for an induction assessment that rates the individual's skills in areas related to media on a scale of 1 to 10. They have heavy experience with Mac computers, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint from previous ICT classes. Their experience with Photoshop, Final Cut, DSLR cameras, and micro areas of moving image is more limited, ranging from mild to no experience. They have done some image editing and have a small, unused YouTube account. They are less confident working as part of a team. Their long term goal is to gain a better understanding of media as a subject and acquire knowledge of varied editing techniques.
Responsive web design is hard and one of the most difficult things to work out is representing visual design in a flexible manner that can accurately be translated to code. In this panel we will discuss how we used InDesign to create flexible comps and rapidly iterate between multiple designers. We went with the concept of ‘just enough’ design to get us into code, where we could validate our design decisions. We will also go into how we iterated after the code was done but the design was not. We borrowed heavily from Upstatements approach to designing the Boston Globe but ran into our own unique challenges along the way.
Presenters: Brent Laverty, Georgia Cowley, Warren Schultheis, Ryan Gantz, Ted Irvine, Josh Laincz
Democratising UX: how to spread user research education and insights throughout your organisation
With demand for UX insights within organisations outstripping the capacity of UX teams to deliver research, there is a growing need for greater UX knowledge and capability across different functions within businesses. But how do you spread user research beyond the walls of your UX research team? What is the value of everyone having access to UX insights—or having the ability to run research themselves?
On 26th March, we gathered a range of speakers to share their successes, challenges and expert advice around democratising UX. Learn from a variety of different perspectives on the topic, and have the opportunity to share your own experiences with the community.
In this presentation, Alfonso de la Nuez delivers the opening keynote address ‘Why & How to Democratize UX Research’.
Steps to successful technology implementationLisaWells
The document outlines the key steps and factors for successful technology implementation in schools, including exploration, adoption, installation, implementation, innovation, and sustainability. It emphasizes the importance of ongoing professional development, strong leadership by administrators who model learning and support teachers, and ensuring teachers have adequate resources like financial support, time for planning and collaboration. Facilitators like professional development, leadership, school structure and available resources can help implementation, but need careful planning to avoid becoming barriers.
The Business of UX - People Process and Tech - Miner, Toftscott74m
Slides from June 24 presentation to Business Innovation Growth Council and the Charlotte Regional Technology Executives Council (CRTEC). Presented by Scott Miner and Niels Toft from Technekes.
BUILD YOUR BLUEPRINT FOR DIGITAL LEARNING: HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR LEARNING ORG...Human Capital Media
According to Willis Towers Watson, 90 percent of maturing companies expect digital disruption, but only 44 percent are adequately preparing for it. In this webinar hosted by Manjit Sekhon, Director of Learning Experience Design at Intrepid by VitalSource, you will learn how to help your organization prepare for the challenges of digital disruption through next-generation digital learning. The webinar will cover the topics you need to think through before making a digital move and will include a downloadable blueprint template to get you started on your own digital learning transformation journey.
Takeaways:
How to shift your mindset when it comes to effective digital learning strategies
Methods for thinking about utilizing your current resources differently
Receive a template PowerPoint ready for you to build out and immediately use for your own organization’s specific objectives and opportunities
Introduces empathy as the essence of DevOps. Describes specific ways empathy manifests in successful DevOps environments. Challenges organizations to treat IT transformation as more of a design problem than an engineering problem.
Office 365 Tour South Africa - Port Elizabeth - Without Change, There Would B...Heather Newman
This document discusses Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Teams, and provides guidance on adopting these tools. It notes that modern workforces are increasingly mobile and knowledge workers spend significant time searching for information. Microsoft Planner and Teams can help with task management and collaboration. The document outlines best practices for adoption, including defining a vision, choosing sponsors, training users, and measuring success. It emphasizes focusing on value and making the tools fun to use through gamification.
This document provides an overview of several courses focused on instructional design and educational technology, including EDTC 524 which teaches design principles for classroom and professional materials, EDTC 518 which covers designing online learning experiences, and EDTC 523 which involves developing educational presentations using hypermedia. Assignments are intended to apply the ADDIE model of instructional design. The document also provides information on virtual attendance, grading policies, and technical support contacts.
The document compares and contrasts the ADDIE model and the Dick and Carey instructional design model. The ADDIE model is a linear 5-stage process of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. It provides structured guidance and flexibility. However, it can be time consuming and assume learner requirements are already understood. The Dick and Carey model has more detailed iterative phases and focuses on analyzing, organizing content, and evaluating throughout the process. However, it may be too specific, rigid, and not use all necessary steps. Both models take a systematic approach and share similarities in focusing on inputs, outputs, and the design process, but differ in their number of phases and approach to evaluation.
This document is a record of achievement for Preeti Handa from completing an openSAP online course called "Digital Transformation and Its Impact". The 4-week course covered topics like digital transformation, the role of leadership and IT, and examples of digital transformation. Preeti scored 237 out of a possible 240 points, placing her in the top 5% of participants. The course was held in February-March 2015.
This document provides an overview of an instructional module created to teach beginners how to brew beer at home. The module includes an overview that explains the brewing process, a step-by-step guide with pictures and commentary to walk users through brewing, and an appendix with additional details. It was designed for adults without brewing experience and tested positively by users who were able to successfully brew beer by following the instructions. Feedback from testing informed some revisions to clarify steps and make the information more relevant for learners.
Martin Cisneros presented on his goals to create a useful online professional development product for English Language Learner (ELL) teachers. His goals included producing useful resources for ELL teachers, building partnerships with local school districts and education technology businesses, and expanding an online professional learning network. Some challenges included the time-consuming nature of lesson planning and helping teachers find engaging materials for ELL students. Cisneros accomplished partnering with an education technology company to provide open online lessons and resources, and growing his professional network to exchange ideas and opportunities.
UX for Mobile with Steven Hoober at Pointworks AcademySteven Hoober
This document discusses user experience design for mobile ecosystems. It focuses on designing for people and complex systems. Sections provide guidance on embracing failure, defining the problem before designing a solution, and information architecture principles like ensuring designs are accessible across different devices. The document emphasizes starting with users, ecosystems over individual systems, and validating designs through evaluation. Interactive exercises guide generating concepts for a new service, including defining the purpose and value proposition, target users, and interface designs. Overall it presents a human-centered approach to designing mobile products and services for complex, interconnected systems.
The document discusses how Twitter is being used by Australian engineering academic units. It finds that Twitter is being used for social media in engineering education to link students and practicing engineers, engage large classes in real time, and for student group communications when learning management systems prove unwieldy. It provides statistics on tweets, mentions, followers, etc. for 8 academic units and finds two principal patterns of Twitter activity: sending mostly undirected tweets and a more diverse model with various tweet types and more overall activity. The document concludes that Twitter is only one platform and network visualization is a useful method for evaluating social media use in engineering education.
This document summarizes an investigation into analyzing student comments from course experience questionnaires (CEQ) at Deakin University. Over 160,000 CEQ comments from 2001-2004 were analyzed using a software called CEQuery to identify common themes. The investigation aimed to validate a previous five domain model for categorizing comments and identify best practices for using comment data at the program level. Key findings included support for the five domain structure, that manual coding of comments achieved better results than the software, and that many comments related to the practical design of courses.
The document analyzes student evaluation of teaching (SET) data from 100 units of study over two years to identify systematic influences. It finds that SET ratings are significantly higher for units with enrollments under 35 students compared to over 34 students for most rating items. SET ratings are also significantly higher for postgraduate versus undergraduate students for one item. Delivery mode does not significantly influence most ratings, except that units delivered fully online received lower ratings for one item assessing challenge. The implications are that institutions should account for known systematic influences in SET data when using it for high-stakes decision making.
The document discusses representing modern research and development practices in school STEM curricula. It argues that science is not currently taught as it is practiced, with hypothesis, experimentation, observation, interpretation and debate. The ReMSTEP program aims to address this by having pre-service teachers experience contemporary science and math research and development practices. This includes opportunities for students to interact with scientists in research environments and for undergrad science students to engage with schools. The goal is to better equip teachers to integrate modern scientific practices into their classrooms. Challenges include aligning cutting-edge research with traditional curricula and getting busy researchers to represent their work for students.
Project management and 702010 blended learning programsSprout Labs
The design, development and delivery of 70:20:10 blended learning programs presents a unique mix of challenges. They often involve a complex mixture of digital technologies, change management and culture management.
These slides are our from our webinar on project management and 702010 blended learning programs.
Mindset Matters: How to Improve Your Virtual Facilitation StyleCynthia Clay
This document describes six different virtual facilitation styles - News Anchor, Energizer Bunny, Podcaster, Technology Guru, Airplane Pilot, and Guide on the Side. For each style, it provides an overview of characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, and tips for reflection. The goal is to help virtual facilitators identify their dominant style and ways to enhance their approach based on strengths of different styles. Participants are prompted to consider how elements of each style could improve their own virtual facilitation.
The document is a skills audit for an induction assessment that rates the individual's skills in areas related to media on a scale of 1 to 10. They have heavy experience with Mac computers, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint from previous ICT classes. Their experience with Photoshop, Final Cut, DSLR cameras, and micro areas of moving image is more limited, ranging from mild to no experience. They have done some image editing and have a small, unused YouTube account. They are less confident working as part of a team. Their long term goal is to gain a better understanding of media as a subject and acquire knowledge of varied editing techniques.
Responsive web design is hard and one of the most difficult things to work out is representing visual design in a flexible manner that can accurately be translated to code. In this panel we will discuss how we used InDesign to create flexible comps and rapidly iterate between multiple designers. We went with the concept of ‘just enough’ design to get us into code, where we could validate our design decisions. We will also go into how we iterated after the code was done but the design was not. We borrowed heavily from Upstatements approach to designing the Boston Globe but ran into our own unique challenges along the way.
Presenters: Brent Laverty, Georgia Cowley, Warren Schultheis, Ryan Gantz, Ted Irvine, Josh Laincz
Democratising UX: how to spread user research education and insights throughout your organisation
With demand for UX insights within organisations outstripping the capacity of UX teams to deliver research, there is a growing need for greater UX knowledge and capability across different functions within businesses. But how do you spread user research beyond the walls of your UX research team? What is the value of everyone having access to UX insights—or having the ability to run research themselves?
On 26th March, we gathered a range of speakers to share their successes, challenges and expert advice around democratising UX. Learn from a variety of different perspectives on the topic, and have the opportunity to share your own experiences with the community.
In this presentation, Alfonso de la Nuez delivers the opening keynote address ‘Why & How to Democratize UX Research’.
Steps to successful technology implementationLisaWells
The document outlines the key steps and factors for successful technology implementation in schools, including exploration, adoption, installation, implementation, innovation, and sustainability. It emphasizes the importance of ongoing professional development, strong leadership by administrators who model learning and support teachers, and ensuring teachers have adequate resources like financial support, time for planning and collaboration. Facilitators like professional development, leadership, school structure and available resources can help implementation, but need careful planning to avoid becoming barriers.
The Business of UX - People Process and Tech - Miner, Toftscott74m
Slides from June 24 presentation to Business Innovation Growth Council and the Charlotte Regional Technology Executives Council (CRTEC). Presented by Scott Miner and Niels Toft from Technekes.
BUILD YOUR BLUEPRINT FOR DIGITAL LEARNING: HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR LEARNING ORG...Human Capital Media
According to Willis Towers Watson, 90 percent of maturing companies expect digital disruption, but only 44 percent are adequately preparing for it. In this webinar hosted by Manjit Sekhon, Director of Learning Experience Design at Intrepid by VitalSource, you will learn how to help your organization prepare for the challenges of digital disruption through next-generation digital learning. The webinar will cover the topics you need to think through before making a digital move and will include a downloadable blueprint template to get you started on your own digital learning transformation journey.
Takeaways:
How to shift your mindset when it comes to effective digital learning strategies
Methods for thinking about utilizing your current resources differently
Receive a template PowerPoint ready for you to build out and immediately use for your own organization’s specific objectives and opportunities
Introduces empathy as the essence of DevOps. Describes specific ways empathy manifests in successful DevOps environments. Challenges organizations to treat IT transformation as more of a design problem than an engineering problem.
Office 365 Tour South Africa - Port Elizabeth - Without Change, There Would B...Heather Newman
This document discusses Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Teams, and provides guidance on adopting these tools. It notes that modern workforces are increasingly mobile and knowledge workers spend significant time searching for information. Microsoft Planner and Teams can help with task management and collaboration. The document outlines best practices for adoption, including defining a vision, choosing sponsors, training users, and measuring success. It emphasizes focusing on value and making the tools fun to use through gamification.
This document provides an overview of several courses focused on instructional design and educational technology, including EDTC 524 which teaches design principles for classroom and professional materials, EDTC 518 which covers designing online learning experiences, and EDTC 523 which involves developing educational presentations using hypermedia. Assignments are intended to apply the ADDIE model of instructional design. The document also provides information on virtual attendance, grading policies, and technical support contacts.
The document compares and contrasts the ADDIE model and the Dick and Carey instructional design model. The ADDIE model is a linear 5-stage process of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. It provides structured guidance and flexibility. However, it can be time consuming and assume learner requirements are already understood. The Dick and Carey model has more detailed iterative phases and focuses on analyzing, organizing content, and evaluating throughout the process. However, it may be too specific, rigid, and not use all necessary steps. Both models take a systematic approach and share similarities in focusing on inputs, outputs, and the design process, but differ in their number of phases and approach to evaluation.
This document is a record of achievement for Preeti Handa from completing an openSAP online course called "Digital Transformation and Its Impact". The 4-week course covered topics like digital transformation, the role of leadership and IT, and examples of digital transformation. Preeti scored 237 out of a possible 240 points, placing her in the top 5% of participants. The course was held in February-March 2015.
This document provides an overview of an instructional module created to teach beginners how to brew beer at home. The module includes an overview that explains the brewing process, a step-by-step guide with pictures and commentary to walk users through brewing, and an appendix with additional details. It was designed for adults without brewing experience and tested positively by users who were able to successfully brew beer by following the instructions. Feedback from testing informed some revisions to clarify steps and make the information more relevant for learners.
Martin Cisneros presented on his goals to create a useful online professional development product for English Language Learner (ELL) teachers. His goals included producing useful resources for ELL teachers, building partnerships with local school districts and education technology businesses, and expanding an online professional learning network. Some challenges included the time-consuming nature of lesson planning and helping teachers find engaging materials for ELL students. Cisneros accomplished partnering with an education technology company to provide open online lessons and resources, and growing his professional network to exchange ideas and opportunities.
UX for Mobile with Steven Hoober at Pointworks AcademySteven Hoober
This document discusses user experience design for mobile ecosystems. It focuses on designing for people and complex systems. Sections provide guidance on embracing failure, defining the problem before designing a solution, and information architecture principles like ensuring designs are accessible across different devices. The document emphasizes starting with users, ecosystems over individual systems, and validating designs through evaluation. Interactive exercises guide generating concepts for a new service, including defining the purpose and value proposition, target users, and interface designs. Overall it presents a human-centered approach to designing mobile products and services for complex, interconnected systems.
The document discusses how Twitter is being used by Australian engineering academic units. It finds that Twitter is being used for social media in engineering education to link students and practicing engineers, engage large classes in real time, and for student group communications when learning management systems prove unwieldy. It provides statistics on tweets, mentions, followers, etc. for 8 academic units and finds two principal patterns of Twitter activity: sending mostly undirected tweets and a more diverse model with various tweet types and more overall activity. The document concludes that Twitter is only one platform and network visualization is a useful method for evaluating social media use in engineering education.
This document summarizes an investigation into analyzing student comments from course experience questionnaires (CEQ) at Deakin University. Over 160,000 CEQ comments from 2001-2004 were analyzed using a software called CEQuery to identify common themes. The investigation aimed to validate a previous five domain model for categorizing comments and identify best practices for using comment data at the program level. Key findings included support for the five domain structure, that manual coding of comments achieved better results than the software, and that many comments related to the practical design of courses.
The document analyzes student evaluation of teaching (SET) data from 100 units of study over two years to identify systematic influences. It finds that SET ratings are significantly higher for units with enrollments under 35 students compared to over 34 students for most rating items. SET ratings are also significantly higher for postgraduate versus undergraduate students for one item. Delivery mode does not significantly influence most ratings, except that units delivered fully online received lower ratings for one item assessing challenge. The implications are that institutions should account for known systematic influences in SET data when using it for high-stakes decision making.
The document discusses representing modern research and development practices in school STEM curricula. It argues that science is not currently taught as it is practiced, with hypothesis, experimentation, observation, interpretation and debate. The ReMSTEP program aims to address this by having pre-service teachers experience contemporary science and math research and development practices. This includes opportunities for students to interact with scientists in research environments and for undergrad science students to engage with schools. The goal is to better equip teachers to integrate modern scientific practices into their classrooms. Challenges include aligning cutting-edge research with traditional curricula and getting busy researchers to represent their work for students.
The document provides an agenda for a one-day training program on project management. The training will cover various topics related to project design, planning, implementation, evaluation and common challenges. It also includes profiles of project managers and an exercise for attendees to plan implementation of a hypothetical project.
Objective:
Demonstrate the key support roles and responsabilities of a PMO in the ongoing governance and execution of an organisation´s long-term business objectives and its portfolio of improvement initiatives.
This document outlines an agenda for a two-day training on project management. Day one covers defining project management, the skills of a project manager, and tools for project management. Assignments include identifying projects and assessing a project plan. Day two covers additional project management tools, including risk management, Gantt charts, and the logical framework approach. The training aims to provide an introduction to key project management concepts and skills.
This document provides a course description for a Professional English I unit within a Business Management programme. The course is intended to help students communicate effectively in both personal and professional contexts in English. It will cover topics like grammar, reading, writing, and communication skills. Students will learn how to gather information, improve memory, and communicate using appropriate academic language. The course involves lectures, preliminary studying, and assessments including a midterm exam and final exam.
Desperate Need to Reinvent the L&D professional in Australia – Learning Cafe ...LearningCafe
The L&D profession is facing stress in Australia bought about reduced budgets, outsourcing, increased speed of business and the impact of technology. This is being reflected in the changing quality and quantity of L&D jobs and career paths available. We cogitate on the skills needed to ensure L&D professionals keep themselves in demand including digital and business skills. We discuss the options and alternative career options and pathways for L&D professions.
LavaCon 2017 - Sharon Figueira: Snakes and Ladders Game BoardJack Molisani
This workshop equips participants with planning tactics for laying out your next content change initiative. Participants will leverage a planning framework and participate in an interactive process of identifying key project opportunities and risks as well as exploring their own project roadmap. In this workshop, the project scenario focuses on how a content management system can be leveraged to facilitate content collaboration with subject matter experts. The topic will be approached using the familiar board game of Snakes and Ladders.
The document summarizes and reviews three presentations from an H818 course conference. It discusses why Marese Mulligan and Samantha Marks' projects were chosen, the preparation process, and the multimedia posters and presentations each student created. It concludes that all three presentations were well designed and effectively communicated their projects, earning the presenters an award.
The document discusses the goals and activities of neZt, a virtual platform being created to bring together education, creative industries, and businesses to collaborate on social and practical innovations. Specifically, it aims to increase collaboration between initiatives at Hangar36, a creative hub, and nearby design schools. Activities include surveying needs of Hangar36 participants and students, creating a pilot demo of a virtual platform, and presenting findings to stakeholders to help define platform requirements. The rest of the document discusses how the VCS platform can enable productive collaboration through features like online meetings, project management tools, and transparent information sharing.
Integrating Generative AI into Educational Practices.pdfErika Fille Legara
This presentation covers practical ways AI can enhance educational capabilities, streamline workload management, and transform curriculum development. Whether you're involved in course design, administrative planning, or seeking innovative teaching methods, this presentation offers valuable insights into the effective integration of AI tools in the education sector.
Are project tracking tools helping or complicating Continuous Improvement Pro...Kubilay Balci
Are project tracking tools helping or complicating Continuous Improvement Projects? presented by Kubilay Balci at 8. Project Management Symposium in Vienna June 7th, 2017.
click here for narratives:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/project-tracking-tools-helping-complicating-continuous-kubilay-balci
Impact of eLearning Scope Creep_ A Project Manager's Guide.pdfreddyramesh2024
The "Impact of eLearning Scope Creep: A Project Manager's Guide" explores the challenges and consequences of scope creep in eLearning projects. This insightful guide provides project managers with essential strategies to identify, manage, and mitigate the impact of scope changes during the development of eLearning content. From maintaining project timelines to ensuring the alignment of deliverables with initial objectives, the guide offers practical insights to navigate the complexities of eLearning development and safeguard project success.
This report summarizes insights from interviews with over 30 leading learning and development professionals about trends in learning technologies. Key findings include:
1. Organizations are focusing on improving performance and providing just-in-time learning to support tasks. Learning technologies that support informal, on-demand learning are being increasingly invested in.
2. Learning and development departments are playing a bigger role in curating and delivering informal learning resources to support self-directed learning. Resources tend to be short, quickly produced, and take various formats.
3. While interest in alternative methods is growing, developing and delivering formal courses remains important, especially for compliance training. These courses are increasingly blended with more e-learning, webinars,
The document summarizes presentations from four projects related to curriculum design:
1) The Viewpoints project from the University of Ulster uses card sorting to map principles of assessment, information literacy, and learner engagement to a learner timeline. This promotes discussion and planning among stakeholders.
2) The OULDI project at the Open University examines curriculum design processes and ways to improve efficiency through tools, resources, and changing institutional structures.
3) The PiP project at the University of Strathclyde develops an online curriculum approval system focused on key principles and making the approval process a "teachable moment."
4) The T-SPARC project at Birmingham City University aims to make curriculum design more agile and responsive
The document outlines the top 10 keys to a successful eLearning project presented by Mark Steiner at the Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase in 2011. The top 10 keys are: 1) Educate the client on eLearning fundamentals and manage expectations. 2) Determine the actual training need. 3) Define your process and communicate roles. 4) Identify all project personnel and their roles. 5) Analyze technical needs and specifications. 6) Consider interface design and media aspects. 7) Analyze content and instructional strategies. 8) Define deliverables. 9) Acquire tool expertise. 10) Test early and often from both user and technical perspectives.
Working with STEM students to deliver professional oral and visual presentationslsucxc
This document discusses the importance of developing strong oral and visual presentation skills for STEM students. It notes that poor communication skills can limit career advancement for engineers. While students often think technical skills are most important, surveys show communication skills are equally valuable. The document provides guidance on effective presentation techniques like considering audience needs, using illustrations and animations appropriately, and extracting key details from complex diagrams. Resources like the Engineering Communication Studio are available to help students improve their presentation abilities.
In this webinar, Cushing Anderson, IDC’s IT Education and Certification Research Program Vice President, and the author of our recent report, will help organizations understand how to strategically align learning programs with organizational goals to impact the business. Cushing will walk attendees through the metrics that learning can impact, the levers to maximize impact, and the outcome of a successful framework. Alongside our President of Udemy for Business Darren Shimkus, Cushing will dive into:
- How to link learning initiatives to strategic issues
- How to create a framework that maximizes the impact of learning, through intention, relevance, - consumption and reinforcement
- The types of value that can be witnessed through learning, including time savings, increased productivity, and faster onboarding
- How the L&D team at Udemy for Business maximizes learning impact across the organization
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3. Models discussed include correlations, linear and logistic regression to explore relationships between factors and predict outcomes like student pass rates.
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1. An evaluation of the impact of using
authentic design and build industry
projects in project-based learning
Clive Ferguson – Chisholm Institute
Stuart Palmer (@s_palm ) – Deakin University
2. Chisholm BTech program
Partnered with South East Melbourne
Manufacturers’ Alliance (SEMMA)
CDIO Initiative partner program
A design-and-build industry project runs across
both semesters in three first-year subjects
3. Oral presentations
0 2 4 6 8 10
Significant
Notable
Marginal
No change
Less able
Figure 1: Ability to prepare for presentations
0 2 4 6
Significant
Notable
Marginal
No change
Less able
Figure 2: Skills in delivering a presentation
0 1 2 3 4 5
Significant
Notable
Marginal
No change
Reduced
Figure 3: Confidence in presenting in front
of an audience
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Significant
Notable
Marginal
Equivalent
Less time effective
Figure 4: Did preparation for orals help your
studies?
0 2 4 6
Significant
Notable
More than balanced
Balanced
No
Figure 5: Time spent on oral presentation
worthwhile?
4. Writing workshops
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Significant
Notable
Marginal
Balanced
Waste of time
Figure 6: How much did PET help develop
your writing skills? (All)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Significant
Notable
Marginal
Balanced
Waste of time
Figure 7: How much did PET help develop
your writing skills? (2012)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Significant
Notable
Marginal
Balanced
Waste of time
Figure 8: How much did PET help develop
your writing skills? (2013)
5. Industry projects (1)
0 1 2 3 4 5
Extensively
Substantially
Notably
Marginally
No
Figure 9: Provide context for your studies?
0 2 4 6
Considerable
Significant
Notable
A little
No
Figure 10: Clearer idea of role of Engineering
Technologist to put studies into context?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Both
Industry
environment
Project
Figure 11: What aspects have been valuable?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Extensive
Substantial
Notable
A little
None
Figure 12: What value has this added to
your studies?
6. Industry projects (2)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Significant
Notable
A little
Not at all
Figure 13: Enjoy working in a team?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
All enthusiastic
Most members enthusiastic
Most members committed
Limited to a few
Very little
Figure 14: Team Commitment?
0 1 2 3 4 5
Worked effectively
Some leadership/
communication breakdown
Deficiencies in
communication structure
Agreed structure; no
effective leadership
Poor communication
& leadership
Figure 15: Team Organisation and
Communication
0 1 2 3 4
Severe work
overload
Substantial; other
studies compromised
Significant but
worthwhile
Notable but
worthwhile
Manageable; no
adverse effects
Figure 16: Time pressure
7. Conclusions
Oral presentation program is worthwhile,
Likewise for the writing workshops
Industry project has worthwhile outcomes, but…
…strategies must be developed to contain the
significant time pressures placed on the students
8. Dedication
Dr Brian Edmund Lloyd AM
30/6/1929 – 2/3/2014
Professional Engineer and Educator
His 1989 book ‘New Pathways in Engineering Education’
described the occupational classification of engineering
technologist in Australia