Education

Our role is to collaborate with teaching staff on all campuses to develop curriculum, learning and teaching approaches and resources that make the best use of available technologies. 

A key aim in our work is to assist staff to develop learning and teaching approaches that are:

• Flexible – (offer learners some choices in times they can learn and types of learning activities they participate in)
• Blended – (make best use of time spent in face-to-face learning as well as time spent with technology-mediated learning )
• Efficient – (make best use of available resources)
• Pedagogically sound

and which address the issues associated with teaching in a multicampus university and with a diversity of learners.

Lilian Austin | 9479 1338 | email: l.austin@latrobe.edu.au
Shem Macdonald | 5444 7920 / 9479 2291 | email: s.macdonald@latrobe.edu.au

Bundoora: Room 326, Education 2
Bendigo: Faculty of Education Office

Planning and Designing a Blended approach to your Teaching Program

We can act as a sounding board, offering fresh ideas and options for the delivery of your unit or course. 

Use of a Range of e-Learning tools in WebCT

• WebCT – management of the WebCT unit
• Design issues – options for structuring the student experience
• File management – easier uploading of multiple files
• Gradebook management – managing columns
• Tracking of student engagement
• Learning management tools such as the Goals Tool, syllabus
• Use of selective release options to sequence learning

• WebCT – for delivery of subject content and learning activities
• building sequenced learning modules
• incorporating a sense of the teacher’s voice guiding and scaffolding the learning
• incorporating learning activities to guide students and support the learning
• adding links to external websites
• adding links to library resources
• incorporating  audio and multimedia 
• adding links to podcasts (creating your own or sourcing existing)
• building Webquests within the WebCT shell
• use of glossaries

• WebCT for student/teacher collaboration
• Setting up and using the discussion tool, blogs, reflective journals
• Ideas for learning activities which use these tools
• Organising discussions into categories and weaving into a learning sequence
• Grading options for discussions and journals using rubrics

• WebCT to assist in the assessment process
• Setting up assignments submission
• Using  grading rubrics for easy and transparent marking
• Creating quizzes (using other software tools such as Respondus)
• Incorporating graded discussions

Other e-Learning Tools and Strategies

(Some other e-learning tools which can be integrated into WebCT)

• Video
• Use of interactive elements such as crossword, cloze, mix and match etc
• Voice discussions boards
• Building audio/visual case studies
• Digital stories
• Games

Please contact us by email or phone if you need further assistance.