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RE: Digital portfolio tool?

Posted By Tom Worthington 11-03-2023 05:17:55 PM
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Mahara works fine. I have used it both as a student, & teacher. However, I suggest not overselling the idea of an e-portfolio. Unless the graduate is in a career where portfolios are used, the e-portfolio is not going to be of interest to prospective employers. In the ANU Techlauncher program we stopped ...

Moot Court for Simulated Government

Posted By Tom Worthington 09-04-2023 11:50:57 PM
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Greetings from the Australian Crisis Simulation Summit at in the Moot Court at the Australian National University in Canberra. It turns out the simulated courtroom, and associated classrooms, work well for a simulation of government. Teams of students are playing the roles of different agencies coordinating ...

RE: Classroom Power for Student Devices - Ceiling install

Posted By Tom Worthington 08-02-2023 09:13:00 PM
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I suggest providing power at fixed benches in foyers, outside the classrooms, where students congregate. This is much simpler than trying to find a way to provide it in a classroom with movable furniture. Some of the Australian National University engineering and computing teaching rooms have power ...

RE: Issue with Zoom Room

Posted By Tom Worthington 02-04-2023 03:29:17 PM
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It never occurred to me to use a Moodle plugin for Zoom. I have been creating events in Zoom, then copying the details into Moodle, and later providing a link to where the recording is. This works fine. What is the advantage in using a plugin, assuming it worked? ------------------------------ Tom ...

RE: CHAT GPT

Posted By Tom Worthington 01-10-2023 04:02:32 PM
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News headline suggests Australian universities will return to pen and paper exams to combat AI cheating. But if you read the content is says they are actually going to use laboratory activities, and oral presentations (which is what I help do at ANU). ------------------------------ Tom Worthington, ...

RE: FLEXspace UX Research - May we interview you?

Posted By Tom Worthington 01-07-2023 12:43:44 AM
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Happy to be interviewed. The way it works is I blog what sort of classrooms I want, and some time later some of it gets built. As an example, I asked for flat floor classroom with furniture on wheels, and screens on the walls. Some time later the ANU Marie Reay Teaching Centre was built. My latest request ...

RE: CHAT GPT

Posted By Tom Worthington 12-29-2022 02:11:53 PM
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Good question. My approach is to ask students to build up a body of work during the course, which is on a topic unique to them. So they have to answer discussion questions with answers unique to their overall theme. This makes it harder for a contract writer, or AI. As an example, in the course I am ...

RE: Breaking the dropout cycle - free webinar this week

Posted By Tom Worthington 12-12-2022 10:57:13 PM
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To reduce dropouts institutions can provide competency based assessment, with an online learning option, work integrated learning, and stacked credentials. That is, just assess if the student meets the required standard, don't stress them out trying to meet an unnecessary higher standard. Don't make ...

RE: Seeking examples of how your campus is using conference rooms for hybrid collaboration and more

Posted By Tom Worthington 12-05-2022 09:47:00 PM
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Yes, as a student who has studied both on campus, and remote, the question is: do students on campus get a poorer experience? As an online student, I am happy to pay the same fees, including at one institution where I paid for maintaining football fields I have never seen. This week I was at a hybrid ...

RE: Seeking examples of how your campus is using conference rooms for hybrid collaboration and more

Posted By Tom Worthington 12-03-2022 03:54:13 PM
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I just spent two days having meetings in the Australian Computer Society's head office in Sydney, and a day in the Canberra one. The offices are set up with one large events room, and several smaller meeting rooms. Each room has a large video screen (some have two), and video conferencing built in. The ...

RE: Virtual Watercooler - has anyone done one that was successful?

Posted By Tom Worthington 10-15-2022 04:25:29 PM
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The problem with a virtual water-cooler is that you feel a bit silly turning up and finding no one there, and then trying to make small talk if there is someone. For the ASCILITE 2021 conference there was a Zoom "green room" to chat to the presenter after their talk, and a "park bench" where delegates ...

RE: Vendors of web applications and accessibility

Posted By Tom Worthington 09-26-2022 05:42:37 PM
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Doug, when it comes to products, it is a clear choice, but difficult: recommend a product, or not. That is why we get paid the big bucks. ;-) More seriously, your point on duplicated effort on accessibility tests for applications is a good one. Perhaps the opportunity for some form of third party ...

RE: Vendors of web applications and accessibility

Posted By Tom Worthington 09-24-2022 08:10:21 PM
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If the app has accessibility issues don't buy it. If the vendor was really committed to accessibility they would have fixed the problems already. If they say they are committed, but have not, then they are lying. If you recommend their product you are complicit in unlawful discrimination. You may be ...

RE: Zoom versus WebEx conference experiences or opinions

Posted By Tom Worthington 08-27-2022 05:09:24 PM
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Most of the time I can't get WebEx to work on my slow broadband connection, and slow laptop. This is as an ordinary participant, not running an event. So I tend to avoid events using WebEx. As a student, if I saw a course was to use WebEx, I would not enroll. In contrast, Zoom works well most of the ...

RE: Furniture Arrangement Question

Posted By Tom Worthington 08-12-2022 02:35:00 AM
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You might find my "How to Blend and Flip a Course for a Flatpack Classroom" of interest. As well as the blog post, there are slides for the formal conference paper. ------------------------------ Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP IP3P, Honorary Senior Lecturer, The Australian National University, Canberra, ...

RE: Online Faculty Voting

Posted By Tom Worthington 08-09-2022 11:43:27 PM
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The professional society committees I am on have occasional votes. For those we raise our hands, in the room, on video, or a virtual hand on Zoom or Teams. But I was curious as to what you vote on in a college faculty meeting. I have never seen a vote taken at a meeting, in several decades of being ...

RE: Project Tracker for Course Development Processes

Posted By Tom Worthington 08-07-2022 05:07:24 PM
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I use project management tools for tracking projects. If it is course development, or anything else complicated enough to need formal tracking, then a tool is needed, be it using paper, a whiteboard, or a computer. I suggest not trying to find something intuitive. Managing a project is not easy, and ...

RE: Copying Course Content - Academic Integrity

Posted By Tom Worthington 08-02-2022 12:41:45 AM
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I addressed the issue of students copying course content by making it available under a Creative Commons open access licence. There is little financial incentive to distribute the content for profit, if it is already freely available. In any case, the course notes on their own are not that useful, or ...

RE: A Technical Solution for Facilitating a Non-disclosed Exam

Posted By Tom Worthington 07-12-2022 05:40:56 PM
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eExams developed at the University of Tasmania, might do. For the exam, the student's computer is booted with a locked down operating system, so that their ability to access anything other than the exam is locked out. This was a government funded project, and the software can be used for free, but there ...

RE: QR Codes

Posted By Tom Worthington 07-11-2022 05:04:54 PM
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I have used QR code occasionally. To make them accessible you can treat them like any other image. Provide a description of where the code goes, and a hypertext link to get the person there. You should provide this anyway, to explain to everyone what it is they will be getting, and a link for those ...