Teaching strategies and technologies
Teaching Strategies
- Academic Integrity
Information for teaching staff on promoting academic integrity and implementing the University's Academic Misconduct Policy - Assessment
Information about effective assessment and key considerations in planning assessment tasks. - AUSSE
Find out how the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) provides La Trobe with an opportunity to gain an insight into the current personal and academic commitments and constraints of students - Effective online discussions
Can online discussion be structured to achieve a high level of effective student participation without an increase on staff workload? - Flexible learning
An overview of flexible teaching/learning strategies and theories for improving student learning. - Good practice examples
Flexible learning case studies. - Inclusive curriculum
Provides useful guidance for working within an inclusive framework. Includes links to resources such as the Cultural Diversity and Inclusive Practice Toolkit. - Lectures
An overview of various strategies to deliver student focused lectures which work towards enabling a deep approach to learning. - Planning your unit
An overview of issues that you may wish to consider when planning your unit. - Postgraduate supervision
Discusses methods to encourage writing, and clarifying student / supervisor roles. - Problem based learning (PBL)
This guide is to assist you in developing and implementing PBL as a small component of a subject or across an entire course. - Smaller group teaching
Strategies for smaller group teaching are outlined. - Student Engagement
Active involvement, social integration and personal reflection in both learning and campus life in general contributes to high quality learning outcomes. - Tutoring and demonstrating
Information about planning and delivering tutorials and advice on techniques to facilitate group work.
Technologies
- Learning Management System
La Trobe University’s Learning Management System (LMS) is Blackboard/WebCT CE6. Use of the LMS supports the University’s emphasis on blended approaches that combine face-to-face and technology supported learning.
- Digital image collections (Insight at La Trobe)
Insight provides digital image collections and tools in support of teaching, learning, and research for faculty and students of La Trobe University.
- IT Skills Training for Students
If any of your students require training in IT skills, refer them to the Training at La Trobe website for information about accessing online training such as the International Computer Driving Lession (ICDL). - Lectopia
Information on the automated lecture recording system and process for applying to use Lectopia for your unit. - Photography and Digital Imaging
The Photography and Digital Imaging unit provides high quality photographic services for La Trobe staff supporting both the academic and corporate image of the university. PDI has an image library, and can assist with creating academic posters - Quiz making (Respondus)
Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing assessment that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, WebCT, eCollege, ANGEL and other eLearning systems. - Technology guidelines and policies
List of relevant guidelines and policies for using technology for teaching and learning - Text-matching (Turnitin)
Turnitin is a text-matching software that can be used to identify incidences of coincidences between a student's paper, published materials, and other works submitted to Turnitin. - Videoconferencing
Information for staff about videoconferencing at La Trobe University