Digital Education is a dynamic portfolio of teams within Education Futures that form the nucleus of online learning at UNE and drive the design and delivery of high-quality learning and teaching.
Academic Development
Academic Integrity
Digital Landscapes
Exams and eAssessment
Learning Design
Learning Media
International recognition for OLX at UNE
Kylie Day and Sarah Thorneycroft were recently featured in US podcast ‘The Score’, talking about the design and implementation of OLX at UNE.
The tUNEup program: 26 September-23 October
The Academic Skills Office (ASO) is running the tUNEup from Home program to prepare students for Trimester 3 study, 26 September–23 October, 2022. You are invited to recommend the program to students who would like to 'tune up' their skills. The program...
May I be excused? My brain is full! Cognitive Load Theory
Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has been called “the single most important thing for teachers to know” (Wiliam 2017). So what is Cognitive Load Theory and why might it be so important?
Proctor Who? How secure are OLX anyway?
Academic integrity and assessment security in online examinations has been a hot topic in the higher education sector recently, and it’s a topic that isn’t always well understood. Education Futures recently invited ProctorU to deliver a webinar for staff to develop an even stronger understanding of OLX practice and protocols at UNE.
Education Futures Roadshow #3 – The Future of Assessment
Education Futures’ third Roadshow event focused on The Future of Assessment, showcasing initiatives and a draft of the UNE Assessment Framework currently in development. If you weren’t able to attend or would like further information, you can catch up on the recording, collaboration and relevant resources in this post.
Recordings now available: UNE Learning and Teaching Symposium 2022
If there are presentations you may have missed or presentations you can’t wait to see again, all the 2022 (and 2021) Learning and Teaching Symposium presentations can now be viewed at the UNE Symposium website: https://symposium.une.edu.au/ Our...
We scanned a dinosaur!
Now we have your attention! Did you know we have 3D scanning equipment to make physical objects digital? Talk about a great way to take object-based learning online! Watch a video of some of the latest 3D scanning projects from within the Learning Media team.
Rich media assessment: taking digital assessment to the next level
Digital assessments like OLX offer some key opportunities for assessment practice that aren’t possible in paper-based examinations, such as the integration of rich media. The DigEd team have recently collaborated to produce an exemplar rich media exam to showcase some of the possibilities.
Innovation through integration: showcasing Learning Design practice
The Learning Design Team recently presented Automatic extensions: Innovation through integration at the 2022 UNE Learning and Teaching Symposium, showcasing the design and implementation of an innovative tool grounded in integrated ways of working that significantly improves staff workload and student experience.
New Feature: Review and Update all Unit Activity Dates in One Place
The Moodle Dates Report was released earlier this week and gives unit coordinators the ability to edit dates for all activities (within a unit), on a single page. This will be particularly useful when setting up units for upcoming teaching periods, but is also great for a quick review to ensure all dates are set correctly for the current T2 teaching period.
The value of introduction videos with Dr Fincina Hopgood
A video testimonial from one of our long-term collaborators, Dr Fincina Hopgood – Senior lecturer for Screen studies in Media & Communications. Fincina explains why unit intro videos are so important to her student-centred pedagogical practice creating a strong digital presence in all of her units.
Lightboard in focus — PowerPoint overlays and recording to USB
The new Lightboard has new possibilities to explore with application overlays to incorporate diagrams, text and other elements into presentations. This post offers a template and a quick overview of overlays, plus tips on recording to USB.
Special Assessment Uplift – now a HEPPP-funded project
Special Assessment is one of the important tools that students can use to mitigate the impact of life challenges on their study, and the project underway in Education Futures to redesign and uplift the application process is now supported by HEPPP funding.
Defining a next-generation ecosystem
You may have heard the term ‘next-generation ecosystem’ used through the Learning Futures and LMS Renewal projects – this post is a quick overview of what we mean by ‘ecosystem’ and why we use it.
Registrations Open: UNE Learning and Teaching Symposium 2022
Registration is open for UNE’s third Learning and Teaching Symposium to be held Thursday 28th July 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. You are welcome to attend all or some of the online sessions. The engagement-packed program can be found below or at the Symposium...
An Integrated Approach to Online Exams in T2, 2022
One of the core workstreams of the OLXi project is designing an integrated, team-based approach to supporting and managing online exams, to embed OLX as part of UNE’s next-generation online learning ecosystem. The new process has been launched and the first iteration will be trialed in T2 2022.
Understanding extensions and Special Assessment provisions
Because our students are humans, there are often situations in which students aren’t able to submit assessments by the due date or sit exams on time. UNE has a number of provisions in our Assessment Guidelines that help support student success – this post explains each of the provisions, how they’re accessed and some new initiatives to make things quicker and easier.
LMS Renewal: Invitation to Contribute (Unit Survey)
As part of the LMS Renewal project, we are now starting to plan the content transition and uplift phase to enable adoption of a new or improved Learning Management System for late 2023. To help design a process that best fits UNE, we are inviting staff...
Demystifying grade codes: tips for great results
While the standard grade codes are straightforward, there are many other grade codes that perform other functions that aren’t always well understood. This post details the main areas of confusion to help facilitate a smooth and stress-free results release period each trimester.
OLX wrap up – T1/2022
The Trimester 1 exam period has concluded with just over 10,000 supervised exams held, more than 3,350 special assessment applications processed and a high satisfaction rate.
Tip: Zoom – live transcripts during Zoom meetings
Live transcripts during Zoom sessions can now be enabled by the host and made available as an option to participants who choose to display it. Transcripts are a great accessibility and productivity tool and are easy to enable.
UNE Digital Dexterity – helping students thrive in a digital world
UNE has recently released the Digital Dexterity program – a suite of modules to designed to develop students’ digital skills. The program was developed as a cross-team collaboration between the Library and Digital Education and is now available to students.
Webinar: Showcasing the Atrium Retention Platform – Monday, 20th June
The next webinar in our Academic Development series will be: Showcasing the Atrium Retention Platform Offered: Monday 20th June 11:10 am - 11:50 am Please register via this link: https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bHlx1wlIyr0Jo0e...
Understanding design – Consistency and Cognitive Load
The notion of ‘consistency’ is something that comes up a lot when we talk about online learning, but i’s not always clear what we mean when we talk about consistency or why it’s important. This post unpacks consistency and the cognitive load theory behind it.