Digital Education and Education Futures are committed to open and extensive engagement with the university community, with a strategy in place that spans a range of avenues. This post captures these avenues in one place as a quick reference for staff.
Sites and resources
We make a range of sites and resources available to staff across both key projects and business-as-usual operations:
- Digital Education @ UNE blog
- DigEst newsletter (sent regularly to the allcoordinators mailing list)
- Project Uplift website
- Teaching Online @ UNE
Consultative Groups
We run two key consultative groups, chaired by the Director, Digital Education, that bring key stakeholders from each faculty together with Education Futures leadership to consult on key initiatives and ensure close working relationships. These groups meet monthly and are run on an informal, collegial basis.
Education Futures Consultative Group
Associate Deans Teaching & Learning with Directors and Managers from Education Futures
Schools L&T Consultative Group
Chairs of School Education Committees with Managers from Education Futures
Committee representation
DigEd have an active presence on all key school and faculty committees, tabling reports and key initiatives, discussing emergent matters and facilitating two-way communication between areas.
Faculty Education Committees: Director, Digital Education
School Education Committees: Learning Design Team representatives
School meetings: DigEd Managers representatives
Reporting
DigEd and Education Futures produce a range of regular and ad-hoc reports:
- Education Futures Bi-monthly Portfolio Report (faculty and divisional leadership)
- General and specific reports across all levels of learning and teaching governance
- Project reporting – steering and advisory committees
- Other reports as relevant
Consultation on initiatives
As drivers of key initiatives in the learning and teaching space, DigEd and Education Futures frequently undertake consultation to ensure the design and delivery of these initiatives are grounded in context and input from across the university as a whole. This consultation may take different forms as appropriate
Targeted Consultation
Usually undertaken via email and/or the various groups and committees above, feedback on specific initiatives is sought directly from key stakeholders from relevant areas, such as faculty leadership and committee chairs.
Policy consultation
As well as targeted consultation where appropriate, the Policy Bulletin Board is a key mechanism for consulting proposed learning and teaching policy changes.
Roadshows and events
For broad communication and engagement on major initiatives, events such as Roadshows are held to ensure information and opportunities for feedback are available to the widest possible audience.
Contacts
Each team within DigEd has a key contact address to enable quick and easy contact with the entire team:
Learning Design Team: learningdesign@une.edu.au
Exams & eAssessment: olxforstaff@une.edu.au
Learning Media Team: mediarequests@une.edu.au
Digital Landscapes Team: Support requests and general queries can be allocated to the team via uneonline@une.edu.au, or use projectuplift@une.edu.au for queries regarding Project Uplift and myLearn