Introducing @mmhinze, Manager eLearning/eTeaching, Faculty of Arts

Meredith Hinze is Manager eLearning/eTeaching at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts. Meredith specialises in learning design with technology, innovative pedagogies and the application of technology enhanced learning. She is passionate about empowering academic staff through providing professional development support. Her special interests include social media and digital communications and their application in teaching and learning, mobile technologies and digital equity. She has a background in teaching digital media and communications at both undergraduate and graduate level and over 15 years experience as an IT & Web Manager. She is currently researching into the professional identity and role of the learning designer/learning technologist.

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References

Narayan, V., Cochrane, T., Cowie, N., Hinze, M., Birt, J., Deneen, C., Goldacre, P., Ransom, L., Sinfield, D. & Worthington, T. (2020). A mobile ecology of resources for Covid-19 learning. ASCILITE 2020: ASCILITE’s first virtual conference, pp.171-175. ASCILITE. https://doi.org/10.14742/ascilite2020.0122

Altena, Sharon, Ng, Rebecca, Hinze, Meredith, Poulsen, Simone, & Parrish, Dominique Rene (2019) ‘Many hats one heart’: A scoping review on the professional identity of learning designers. In Yi Wei S, Chew, Mun C, Kah, & Alphonso, A (Eds.) Personalised Learning. Diverse Goals. One Heart: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2019) Conference Proceedings. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), Australia, pp. 359-364. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197047/

Introducing @mitchellkm learning designer and practitioner in blended and online learning and academic support

Kate Mitchell is a learning designer at the University of Melbourne, supporting staff to shift their practice and courses to blended and online learning delivery. She has been working in education in various contexts for two decades, including learning design, educational technology projects, secondary and vocational education teaching, and media production for education. Kate is an AITD Fellow, a founding member of the ASCILITE TELedvisors Special Interest Group and a member of the ePortfolios Australia organising committee. You can learn more about her work at her About Me page, her Digital Portfolio, or follow her on Twitter at @katevideo.

Introducing @lylegurrin teaching and research academic in biostatistics

Lyle Gurrin is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health, where he started as a Senior Lecturer in 2003. He has previously taught introductory statistics to postgraduate students in epidemiology, public health and medicine, but now concentrates on developing material for the Master of Biostatistics. This course, which trains the next generation of biostatisticians, is available both online through the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia and on campus at the University of Melbourne. The current challenge is how best to use technology to make the transition from what was an entirely online asynchronous environment to blended synchronous learning, especially how face-to-face role playing exercises involving consultant and client or statistician and research collaborator are best represented virtually instead of “in real life”.

References

Heller GZ, Forbes AB, Dear KBG, Jobling E for the BCA writing group Carlin JB, D’Este K, Dobson A, Gurrin LC, Marschner I, Moore H, Ryan P, Simpson JM. (2008). Biostatistics @ Distance: A Model for Successful Multi-Institutional Delivery. The American Statistician, 62(4), 321-328.

Simpson JM, Ryan P, Carlin JB, Gurrin LC, Marschner I for the BCA writing group. (2009). Training a new generation of biostatisticians: a successful consortium model. Journal of Statistical Education, 17(2).

Simpson JA, Forbes AB, Wolfe R, Gurrin LC, Lee KJ, Schuster T, Vukcevic D, Kasza J, Moreno-Betancur M, Zaloumis SG, DeLivera A, Nguyen CD, Karahalios A, McKenzie J, Milanzi E, Carlin JB. (2016). Upskilling the epidemiological workforce with advanced biostatistics training: the ViCBiostat Summer School. Australasian Epidemiologist, July 2016, 23(1), 26-28.

Vukcevic D, Finch S, Gurrin LC, Moreno Betancur M, Carlin JB, Gordon IR. (2021). Steering students past the “true model myth”. 10th Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics (OZCOTS), 5th – 9th July, 2021.

Blended Synchronous Learning Strategies to Enhance Learning and Promote Group Activities

Remote learning is hear to stay, at least for the short- to medium-term. This poses significant challenges for conducting group work activities and flipped-classroom and practical activities that aim to enhance active learning. How do we give students the University education experience in their living/bed room?

With every intention of giving students the University campus experience, I set out to conduct blended synchronous learning (BSL) classes in semester 1 for a foundational biomedical engineering subject called Mechanics for Bioengineering. On July 6th, I’ll be participating in a webinar panel discussion on strategies for BSL classrooms as part of the SoTEL bootcamp. Watch out for news and links about this panel discussion on the SoTEL website and your inboxes soon.

Find out more about Vijay Rajagopal: @vj_rajagopal & https://biomedical.eng.unimelb.edu.au/cell-structure-mechanobiology#people