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
Learning Futures Roadshow #1 – Learning Analytics
Did you miss last week's Learning Futures roadshow about Learning Analytics? A recording, and a link to an online whiteboard to add you contributions is now available here. Take a look, and grab a virtual sticky note to let us know which questions you...
Rethinking engagement in breakout rooms
Zoom breakout rooms are a common feature of workshops, tutorials and meetings, and they are often used to replicate the small-group discussions used in face-to-face events. This can be challenging for some people though, and DigEd has been trialing a different approach
Reminder: “Past Exam Papers” Moodle no longer available to students
With the switch to online supervised exams, the “Past Exams Collections” Moodle site which contains copies of older paper exams for some units has become increasingly obsolete, which is why we phased out the collection and made it unavailable to...
LMS Renewal Uplift explained
One of the core workstreams in the LMS Renewal project is the ‘uplift’ – something you may have heard mentioned, but might not have a clear understanding of what it means. This post explains everything you need to know about the uplift.
H5P for online interactivity
H5P is an authoring tool for rich content, available to all staff through Moodle. This post breaks down what H5P is and how to use it to easily create interactive online activities.
Lightboard studio is production ready!
What is the lightboard? What is the lightboard studio? What is it used for? Check out the video with a quick overview of the lightboard and dedicated space in the Learning Media team.
OLXi Project Spotlight– evolving OLX practice
Late last year a number of priority areas were identified as key opportunities to transition OLX from an implementation response to integrated effective assessment practice and the OLXi (Integrated approach to OLX) project was launched to take action.
Co-design for new ways of working
Redesigning business processes and the ways that we work can be a challenge. DigEd and Integrated Services recently hosted a co-design workshop bringing stakeholders across the university together to begin collaboratively working towards developing new procedures and practices for Special Assessment at UNE.
Webinar: Students as Co-Creators. Monday, 4th April
Co-creation and active learner involvement in the design and development of education are gaining momentum in educational practice and research. Pebblepad (our ePortfolio platform) is hosting a webinar on the 4th of April focusing on co-creation and...
Video: Small data and ‘person-alisation’ – how relationships and engagement drive learning analytics at the University of Sydney
We have the pleasure of inviting you to our first In Focus Seminar for 2022. Complementing the Academic Development Webinar series, the In Focus Seminar Series explores new and emerging topics of interest in learning and teaching. To kick off the series...
3D light scans out-shines photogrammetry in the digitisation process.
What is 3D digitising? What is photogrammetry or light-based scanning? Which is best to start with? Read through this post and see some examples that UNE are currently using.
Tips: Spring cleaning your tutorial recordings & unit readings
As we approach the first week of teaching, it’s a great time to consider where you’ll store your Zoom recordings and relevant unit readings. Echo360 & Reading List, respectively, provide easy and accessible solutions to this – lets look at these...
Media Space Upgrade – Coming Soon
UPDATE: The spaces have now been completed and are production ready! See the latest post about the media spaces here. We’re nearly there - in partnership with the AV team, the Learning Media studios have been going through an upgrade! We boast a new...
Möbius upgrade – Thursday, 24th February (6am-8am)
There will be an upgrade to Möbius 2022.0 occurring on Thursday, 24th February 2022 between 6AM-8AM AEDT. There may be a downtime of at least 30 minutes during this time period in which you will be unable to access Möbius materials. Users may lose...
New, consistent look for Moodle sites in T1, 2022
If you’re a Unit Coordinator in Trimester 1 2022, you may notice that a few things look different when you access your Moodle site. As part of the university’s strategy to provide a high-quality learning experience and develop efficient, sustainable...
Call for interest: CMALT accreditation
As part of UNE's institutional membership to ASCILITE, we have access to the Association for Learning Technology's CMALT accreditation program. ALT is a leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK, who provide a collaborative community...
OLX Year in Review: 2021
2021 was a significant year for online exams (OLX) at UNE, representing the first year of OLX as our standard business practice. We also saw Time for Change bring the Exams and eAssessment team into the Digital Education portfolio, alongside the...
LMS Renewal: Invitation to Contribute
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...
The OLX Experience #2 – Understanding Privacy
The OLX Experience is a new series of posts designed to help shed light on aspects of online examinations and facilitate a strong shared understanding of OLX at UNE. This post focuses on privacy and data integrity in OLX.
LMS Testing – last chance to sign up
The sign-up survey for LMS testing closes on Sunday. If you are interested in taking part, take a look at our previous blog post for more details and complete the sign-up survey to register your interest. We'll be in touch early next week with the...
T1 Info: Site Contacts block in Moodle
As Trimester 1 gets closer, it is a good time to make sure the Site Contacts block in your teaching units are accurate and contain the contacts details you need. Since T3/2021, every teaching unit should contain an automated Site Contacts block located...
Invitation to join ASCILITE
We are pleased to announce that UNE has recently upgraded its membership to ASCILITE to a three-year unlimited membership, which means that membership is now open to all staff at UNE. By joining ASCILITE, you become a member of one of Australasia’s most...
FEATURE: Zoom <-> Echo integration
A T1 reminder that you have the option to OPT IN to an automatic copy of Zoom recordings into your Echo360 library. This will automatically copy all Zoom recordings to your Echo library from where you can share them with a unit playlist or embed them as...
COURSE: Introduction to Teaching at UNE (Starts Monday 14th February)
This teaching induction course provides key introductory learning and teaching concepts and strategies for those who are in their first few years of university teaching, new to UNE, new to teaching online or simply if you want to brush up on your...