By: Anton de Bruyn
The semester is now well underway and with it a number of ILT’s workshops, seminars, and events. However, things are only just getting started! As we hurtle towards the mid-semester break, now is a great time to highlight some of the professional development events ILT will be hosting soon and throughout 2017.
By: Julia Crawford and Anton de Bruyn
O-Week is a busy, fun time for most first year students and those in the Business School are no exception. However, some students made time to attend a series of four Maths Essentials Workshops, part of a new initiative that I’m running. The workshops are part of the academic skills development offered to students by the Business School’s Innovative Learning and Teaching team, in conjunction with Economics, Statistics and Accounting, and Finance.
By: Nabeel Albashiry
Earlier this year, the University of Auckland moved to Canvas, our new Learning Management System (LMS). Compared to the previous, in-house solution (Cecil), we’ve found Canvas offers improved teaching and learning tools and features. These include better learning analytics and more organic integration with web services like Google Docs, Google Drive, Khan Academy, YouTube, Turnitin, and Flickr.
By: Lyn Collie
The ‘Embedding Employability in the Curriculum Project’ is currently offering a three-year full-time PhD scholarship of interest for honours and masters students currently in the fields of Education, Management and Psychology. The scholarship offers full fees payment across three years of full-time PhD study and paid teaching assistance duties up to two days a week. It will commence early in 2017.
By: Nabeel Albashiry and Doug Carrie
Recent feedback from Business School students has been that they overwhelmingly support the move from Cecil to Canvas, and really like Canvas’ user-friendly features. The most common request was for more consistency in how Canvas courses are presented across the Business School. In ILT’s final monthly seminar for 2016, we discussed how to address this request.
By: Tessa Owens
Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowships are internationally recognised across the higher education sector as valid teaching accreditations. Fellowships provide a means to formally recognise and endorse the teaching experience of academic staff with no previous teaching qualification.
By: Lyn Collie and Olivia Panzic
This year’s Learn Do Share event was a great success with speakers from both inside and outside the Business School sharing their experiences regarding pedagogy in technology. We heard from Business School Teaching Excellence Award winners who transformed their courses as well as staff members on various methods for assessing and marking students online. There was also an excellent review on what matters most to students in regards to Canvas and improvements that can enhance their learning.
By: Ron Tiong
You probably use Canvas and Excel as part of your regular teaching activities, but did you know they can be used to easily discover every Canvas page a student has viewed, generate section and enrolment lists for large classes, and send e-mails with personalised content and attachments? In this seminar, I talked about how Canvas “hacks” and an Excel tool I created for the Business School’s Teaching Initiatives Scheme can enable personalised student engagement opportunities.
By: Tessa Owens
As we head towards the end of semester, students will soon have the opportunity to evaluate courses. Summative student evaluations provide useful information, particularly if the response rate is high enough to ensure a valid reflection of students’ experiences. However, online rates of participation are traditionally quite low and promoting participation is important for getting the most out of the process. Planning for next year’s evaluations now can also offer benefits.
By: Lyn Collie
In this year’s Learn Do Share, speakers from inside and outside the Business School will discuss how technology can truly support student learning and make assessment more effective and efficient!