Coffee Courses in 2022
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How to Get the Most out of the Moodle Learning Management System
Posted onDid you know that the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) was designed specifically for student interaction and collaborative learning? Moodle was developed by Martin Dougiamas of Perth, WA, and released in 2002 as an open source program. It is now used all over the world as one of the most common platforms for delivering online and […]
Cross-Culturally Responsive Teaching
Posted onHave you ever wondered how much culture affects your students’ learning? Or, do you believe that teaching should be culture-free? If you have students from more than one cultural background in your face-to-face or online classroom, then this is a must Coffee Course for you. In this Coffee Course and subsequent face-to-face workshop, we will […]
Engaging the Disengaged: Strategies to Reinvigorate Learning
Posted onWith the pandemic, many courses have been forced to move online. This has presented new challenges on many fronts from content creation and delivery to changes in contact hours, and disruption to planned activities and assessments. It has left many of us frazzled and shifted us away from familiar teaching […]
Going Hybrid and Multi-Mode at ANU: Teaching students on and off campus
Posted onIn this Coffee Course we are going to explore what is involved in delivering effective multi-mode or hybrid courses that retain the best of both worlds for online and on-campus learning, while ensuring students have a strong sense of community and can successfully begin […]
The Science of Learning
Posted onWhat do we know about how students learn? How does this inform the ways in which we educate students in the 21st Century? The science of learning is the scientific study of how people learn. What we currently understand about the science of learning comes from bringing together research from […]
Coffee Courses in 2020
Posted onCoffee Courses paused 2020 has been an extraordinarily challenging year to date. With COVID-19, international travel restrictions and physical distancing measures impacting our University, the priorities in our team have shifted towards designing courses for remote delivery and facilitating training sessions to support our educators. As a result, we […]
Formative Assessment – What, Why, When?
Posted onFormative assessment is now often seen as ‘assessment for learning’ rather than ‘assessment of learning’. So how do we get students to engage with ongoing, formative assessment? Usually students want to prioritise the big, final assessments. They will not always prioritise the smaller activities that test their learning along the […]
Coffee courses: 2019 year in review
Posted onFriends, it was another banner year for the coffee courses, and it was all thanks to you, our dear readers! Here’s a quick look at what happened in 2019, a peek into 2020 courses, and a special thank you to our team and contributors this year. Snapshot of 2019 By […]
Learning Analytics Explained
Posted onThe increasing use of technology for teaching and learning has led to a significant amount of data being collected on how learning occurs in today’s world. To capitalize on this rich data, Learning Analytics (LA) has emerged in recent years as an important field that enables the measurement, collection, analysis […]