GSA eLearning News

Looking for some professional development?  Online courses abound, and they are a great way to inject some new ideas or skills into your teaching. Coffee Courses anyone?  The Australian National University has developed  Coffee courses - open to all, these provide an easy way to learn new ideas for using technology in your teaching. Each coffee course covers a new topic in education technology, teaching online, digital tools, pedagogy, or trends in technology. It is equivalent to a one- or two-hour face-to-face training session, but is done at your own pace from your own desk.You can do them live or dip into the archive of past coffee courses. Some suggested 'Coffee courses' : Enhancing your lecture: strategies for student engagement Practical strategies for enhancing a lecture-based class. The course explores discussion techniques to promote active learning among students within the lecture format, and look at how technologies can effectively facilitate this...

Delayed Announcement If you want to send an announcement to class, but not immediately, try to “delay posting,” which will release your announcement exactly at the time you want. You can also release modules, quizzes, assignments and discussions at specific times too. For more information,  check here .

December 18 th  was the second annual GSA Canvas Showcase! Members of the GSA staff community shared mince pies and a wide array of insights into some of the innovative ways in which Canvas is being used across the institution.  The topics under discussion included: The ways in which Canvas has streamlined the process of student sign-ups and enrolments for elective courses; The lessons learned from inviting students to submit images for display in the Design Domain course;   Some of the features of the Cross School course, including the embedding of Padlet images galleries, and the use of sections to assist with the functioning of the Attendance tool; The new Virtual Classroom tool (Collaborate), with a demonstration of using it for remote teaching at Forres. Collaborate allows distant learning that remains live, interactive, and face-to-face; Using Canvas as a launchpad into other social media and web spaces; The value of academic reading lists, which ...