Webinar 1: Designing for flexibility
The first webinar of the 2013 Designing For Flexiblity (DFF) program is scheduled for 10am on Tuesday June 18. We will be discussing a number of components that make up online learning design and practice, such as: Platform choice (synchronous and asynchronous) E-facilitation Content design and usability Writing questions for an online audience Assessing online There [...]
Designing for Flexibility 2013
The Designing for Flexibility Online Program for teachers kicks off next Tuesday the 4th June 2013 with a f2f induction. The program runs from June to December 2013 with fortnightly topic research, sessions in Adobe Connect facilitated by guest speakers and followup engagement in a facebook group. The program has been developed for experienced educational staff seeking to design [...]
Mathematics and the Online World
With so much of our discussion about being aware of limiting text heavy material; including videos or images and so-on, where does mathematics fit? There seems to be very few options for maths in this online world. For instance how do I add an equation into this blog? I can build the math in Equation [...]
Instructional Design Workshop
The Australian Flexible Learning Framework recently ran a series of three workshops focussing on developing appropriate eLearning design strategies and skills. I attended the Instructional Design Workshop on 29 July presented by Duy Hyunh, check out the video (from Beyond Edge) and Alison Bickford (from Connect Thinking). This excellent workshop centred on instructional design (ID) [...]
“If you put all your course content on the open web would your students still come?”
Interesting question and one that really raises two issues: firstly whether students will still come to class when they can get the information from the web anyway and secondly, how teachers feel about putting their material out there for anyone to access. If I address the second issue first, sharing content in such an open [...]
The networked curator
CC licensed image by Terwilliger911 For this post I have been pondering the question posed in one of our recommended readings by Andrew Churches, “What are the traits that would make for the ideal 21st teacher?” I think one of the critical digital literacies networked educators require is that of a network curator. There are a number [...]
The paradox of choice
Having spoken to choice as one possible strategy for increasing the flexibility of our practice, I was interested to find this great RSA Animate video of a talk by Professor Renata Salecl I’m interested to hear your impressions. My experience is that in education including staff development choice comes only in accepting or complaining about [...]
Reflections from our introductory session
I really enjoyed yesterday’s session and found it gave me some interesting insights on the way this pilot course would run. I am a librarian and manager by profession – but this means that I have opportunity to run sessions with a variety of learners in TAFE – from CGVE students through to senior level [...]
Face to face workshop
The Designing for Flexibility pilot kicked off yesterday with a small but keen group in attendance. The session focused on program overview, introductions and some initial group discussions to get people thinking about program flexibility and the needs/interests of learners. As we left the session and wandered out through the lines of new students waiting [...]
Welcome to Designing for Flexibility
This blog is designed to support and supplement a capability building program for Sydney Institute staff currently in pilot mode. The program runs throughout Semester 2 2011 and is based on a model of reading, reflection and conversation. Participants will undertake readings and research related to a wide range of issues, opportunities and challenges, reflect [...]