Breakout rooms are wonderful to engage students in activities and it is well researched that active learning plays an important part in student engagement and learning. They can also be a bit of a disaster if we haven’t thought through
Learning & Teaching
Are you looking for global or industry experiences to bring into your virtual classroom?
With the decrease in global travel, RMIT and many of our existing exchange partners are looking for opportunities for students to engage internationally. Unfortunately study abroad is just not possible at present. With the inability to travel, many students
Quality Confirmation – Semester 2 Priorities
As part of the ongoing Quality Improvement and Confirmation process during semester 2 we will be reviewing selected Canvas courses, focusing on the four domains from the Online Learning guidelines. As part of a similar process in semester we identified
Beyond the Pivot
Welcome back to the new semester. Last semester we saw the urgent pivot to online learning and what a wonderful success story with all courses going online overnight. This semester we face the new challenge, that is, moving beyond the
Introducing One note and class notebook
What is One Note? One Note is part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools. One note is basically an unlimited size piece of paper which you can use to take notes, add tags, create checklists and do just
Lessons on Student Engagement from a Professional Learning Showcase
Not even the current crisis could stop 120 staff congregating in the same room – a virtual room, that is. Staged on Microsoft Teams, the School of Science Showcase saw nine academics from across multiple disciplines present course-related changes to
PowerPoint’s Alive! Bring your PowerPoint to life with narrations and multimedia
This series of tutorials and linked resources will take you through the basics of adding narrations and other multimedia (Audio, Video, Screen Recordings) to an existing PowerPoint presentation, and then exporting it to a video format, that can easily be
Sustainable Course design.
When developing resources for online delivery there are some strategies you can easily implement which improve the experience for your students. This include things like Not including dates on files Consider using version numbering rather than dates Keeping ‘in progress’
Helping students stay on track with a study plan
With the pivot to online learning, many students have struggled to stay on track and find it difficult to maintain engagement. To deter this disengagement, it is important to develop students’ metacognitive skills, to guide them in self-assessment, and to
