Twitter is an social media platform which allows its users to write short posts known as tweets, amass followers, follow relevant accounts, ālikeā content, and follow and contribute to discussions using hashtags.Ā The open nature of Twitter as a platform affords many opportunities for teaching and learning. Twitter can provide […]
We warmly invite you to share your experiences of participating in our coffee courses via our survey:Ā Click here to take the survey. We would also like to invite you to participate in a focus group to further discuss your experiences with coffee courses and with professional development for teaching […]
Dear participants, apologies for any issues you may have had in the last few days accessing or commenting on the coffee courses blog. We have been in discussion with ITS to resolve these problems and everything should be working normally now. If you have any problems, please feel free to […]
There are a multitude of apps and platforms for teaching and learning out there that seem too good to be true – free, easy, friendly, and fun! Many promise to engage students and improve their learning at (almost) no cost, and offer more flexibility than the tools commonly found in […]
We are very excited to announce that our TEL certificate program for ANU participants is being offered again in 2019! We’ve slightly updated the modules to provide a bit more flexibility in what courses you can choose to do after the feedback from the pilot. Build your own qualification in […]
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you had a relaxing break. Our team has been preparing a range of new courses for 2019 on all sorts of topics, including authentic assessment, using apps, facilitating discussions, learning analytics, and more. To get us started, we’ll be diving into a critical topic for […]
Another wonderful year of coffee courses has now wrapped up! Here are a few of the highlights from 2018, and a sneak peek at what we will be offering next year. By the numbers This year hit some new records for the blog, including our most popular courses ever and […]
A well-designed course can foster positive learning outcomes, enhance student experience and reduce student anxiety and stress. In this coffee course, we will focus on one aspect of course design: the delivery of course materials online. Every interaction within a course forms part of a learnerās experience – including their […]
Welcome back everyone! We had some unscheduled downtime last week, which should be all fixed up now thanks to ITS. Congrats to all of you! I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge a pretty significant milestone for these coffee courses – we have now had 2,000 comments and more […]
Peer assessment and feedback involves students reviewing and assessing the work of their peers, and can be a very powerful learning experience. Peer assessment and feedback can cover a broad range of practices and be implemented for economic, cultural, self-assessment, and motivational reasons. However, there are some risks to be […]