SELT Evaluations and Wattle

This past week I learned several things about the evaluations which are used by the ANU to measure student satisfaction / dissatisfaction about courses they have just completed. Here are the two most important. 

1. There is a very helpful group of people on campus who get the evaluations ready for the students and the statistical information back to the lecturers. They have a website called Planning & Statistical Services Division If possible try and limit your contact with the staff over peak times as they are a small team. 
 
2. SELT evaluations are not automatic. 

Unless you request a SELT evaluation nothing will appear behind the Evaluations (SELT) block on your Wattle page. Just because the block is there does not mean that there is a SELT Evaluation set up! 

The following information was sent to me by the Evaluations Team: 

We require the completion of a SELT request form, with details of the course, who the teaching staff are, and which teaching questionnaire each lecturer/tutor would like to run.

The selection of questionnaires are available at: http://unistats.anu.edu.au/surveys/selt/instruments/

The request forms (either RTF or editable PDF) for SELT are available at: http://unistats.anu.edu.au/surveys/selt/academics/. The request form should list any auditing students, by Uni ID, in the ‘Additional Information”, as we have no central access to those details.

If you'd like more information, have a look through their website or email the Evaluations Team.
  

Sue.

Post script - also from the Evaluations Team:

You may like to consider the SELT processes within the context of the university’s policy (https://policies.anu.edu.au/ppl/document/ANUP_000469) and guidelines (https://policies.anu.edu.au/ppl/document/ANUP_000787).

Please note, over the course of the last six months, new a new survey and evaluations policy and procedure have passed through College consultation, ESQC, UEC and Academic Board. They now rests with the VC for approval and will supersede the current policy and guidelines. In the meantime, the content of the new policy and procedure can be accessed via UEC minutes 3/2013 from May 2013.

Checklist for new Wattle course sites

New Wattle course sites, whether they are created from a template or rolled over from a previous course site; all need a little attention prior to being used for active teaching.

A checklist which can be used as a guide to prepare Wattle courses prior to start of a new teaching session can be found on the CASS Intranet in the Education section under the heading Technology in education. Select Checklist for New Wattle course sites for a two page pdf.

As always, if you need help contact the CASS Education Development Studio who deal with Wattle in the College.

Conference on the use of technology in education

-------- Call for Papers ICEduTech 2013-------------

 International Conference on Educational Technologies 2013
29 November to 1 December 2013, Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
(http://www.icedutech-conf.org/)

The Educational Technologies 2013 conference will be held at Academic Lecture Hall A, UPM (University of Putra), Malaysia, during 29 November to 1 December 2013.
ICEduTech is the scientific conference addressing the real topics as seen by teachers, students, parents and school leaders. Both scientists, professionals and institutional leaders are invited to be informed by experts, sharpen the understanding what education needs and how to achieve it.

The conference covers six main areas: Education in Context, Education as Professional Field, Curricular Evolution, Learner Orientation, Integrating Educational Technologies and International Higher Education. These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas, for more information please check http://www.icedutech-conf.org/call-for-papers

* PaperSubmission
Thisis a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by June 28, 2013.Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 28 June 2013
- Notification to Authors: 31 July 2013
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 6 September 2013
- Late Registration: After 6 September 2013
* Paper Publication
The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch . Extended versions of best papers will be invited for publication in journals, in a book from IGI and in other selected and indexed publications.

* Conference Contact:
E-mail: secretariat@icedutech-conf.org
Web site: http://www.icedutech-conf.org/

* Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society
Co-Organized by: University of Putra (UPM), Malaysia
Sponsored by: Curtin University, Curtin Business School, Austrália

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HERDSA pre-conference presentations

You are invited to an event at the University of Canberra sponsored by the ACT Branch of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA).
Members and non-members welcome.

ACT delegates to next month's 2013 HERDSA Conference will be giving a sneak preview of their conference presentations.

Come and hear from Lyndsay Agans (ANU) on MOOCS; Jean Rath (UC) on early career academics and teaching; Gesa Ruge (UC) on 'Talking about Teaching and Learning' workshops; and Elke Stracke and Sylvia Ashton (UC) on giving and receiving feedback in HDR supervision. (Details of all presentations below)

4:00pm to 5:30pm, Wednesday 12 June, Teaching & Learning Commons, Room 1C42, Building 1, University of Canberra

Please RSVP for catering purposes: jean.rath@canberra.edu.au

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Scalable Learning: The Beautiful Paradox of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)Presenter: Lyndsay Agans, The Australian National University

The Australian National University has recently joined with edX.org to offer two massive, open, online courses. This showcase presentation examines the organisational thinking and approach behind the development of the course, Engaging India from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. In general, this presentation examines the theory, planning, and practice of MOOC delivery and questions the impact on teaching and learning, educational research, and higher education organisational behaviour.

The Next Generation of University Teachers: Longitudinal research into early career academics’ placement of teaching within their academic practicePresenter: Jean Rath, University of Canberra

This team-based research explores the nature of academic work and academic careers amongst early career academics. It takes a longitudinal qualitative approach, which enables an individual biographical focus as well as opportunities to look across cases. For the HERDSA conference paper, we use three individuals as illustrative studies of how early career academics view teaching in relation to the other demands and priorities of contemporary academic practice.

TATAL (Talking about Teaching and Learning)

Presenter:  Gesa Ruge, University of Canberra

The HERDSA TATAL (Talking about Teaching and Learning) workshops seek to develop cohorts of reflective practitioners, who seek to enhance their teaching and the learning of their students. At the 2013 Conference, the program will begin with a pre-conference workshop and continue with a session each day of the conference.

Giving and receiving feedback in HDR supervision: Matches and mismatches

Presenters: Elke Stracke and Sylvia Ashton, University of Canberra

This presentation reports on selected aspects of the OLT-funded project ‘Giving and Receiving Written Feedback in HDR Supervision: Enhancing Supervisors' and Candidates' Skills in a Cross-Cultural Context’. It focuses on language-specific issues that play a role in the communication between supervisors and candidates when giving and receiving feedback in a cross-cultural context.

For more information contact

Dr Jean Rath
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) | University of Canberra | Bruce | ACT 2601 | Australia.
Ph: +61 (0)2 6201 5266 | Fax: +61 (0)2 6201 5172
Email: Jean.Rath@canberra.edu.au | Web: http://www.canberra.edu.au/tlc/tlc-staff/dr.-jean-rath

 

OLT notice from CHELT

Dear all,

Please note the slight change to the Request for Proposals for Good Practice Reports, as per the email below.

Kind regards

Lyn

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Lyn Stevens

Promoting Excellence Administrator

Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching (CHELT) 

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent 

The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 9486

F: +61 2 6125 4023

W:  http://chelt.anu.edu.au/

CRICOS Provider #00120C

From: Office for Learning and Teaching <LearningandTeaching@deewr.gov.au>
Date: Friday, 31 May 2013 12:33 PM
To: Office for Learning and Teaching <LearningandTeaching@deewr.gov.au>
Cc: "DE SOUSA,Marguerite (DIISRTE)" <Marguerite.DESOUSA@deewr.gov.au>
Subject: Please Note: Change to OLT Commissioned Work Request for Proposal - Good Practice Report project deliverable [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Institutional Contact Officers,

The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) would like to advise that there has been a slight change to the Request for Proposal for the Good Practice Reports.

The project deliverables now include a literature review point that unfortunately had dropped off the document. This has been updated on the OLT website and in the attached pdf.

The project deliverables for the Good Practice Report should include:

·         List the key outcomes for teaching and learning of the work done in the topic by the OLT and its predecessor bodies (maximum three pages)

·         Identify and analyse the findings of, and resources for, teaching and learning produced by the national learning and teaching projects and fellowships (half to one page per project or fellowship)

·         Provide a literature review of good practice and key outcomes for teaching and learning from broader Australian and international scholarly research and publications (five to ten pages)

·         Identify the proposed outcomes, and resources for, teaching and learning which will be produced by the incomplete OLT projects and fellowships (half a page per project or fellowship)

·         Identify areas in which further development or work are needed (maximum one page)

For further details please refer to the OLT website http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects.

Please accept our apologies and the OLT would be grateful if you could forward this information to interested members of your staff.

Please contact us on learningandteaching@deewr.gov.au if you have any further questions.

Kind regards

Marguerite de Sousa

Director Awards and Networks

Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 

GPO Box 9880, Sydney, NSW 2001

(02)62400626 | learningandteaching@deewr.gov.au| http://www.olt.gov.au

ABN 74 599 608 295

From: Office for Learning and Teaching
Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:59 AM
To: HEWLETT,Suzi (DIISRTE)
Subject: Office for Learning and Teaching request for proposals for commissioned projects [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dear Vice-Chancellor

The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) occasionally commissions strategic projects in response to key issues in the Australian higher education sector with the guidance of OLT’s Strategic Advisory Committee.

Applications are now open for commissioned projects in the following areas:

1.       Learning analytics: how can it assist us with student retention?

2.       Graduate employability: how can universities best support students to develop generic skills?

3.       Technology enabled learning: how can student learning outcomes be enhanced?

4.       National learning and teaching resource audit and classification

5.       Good Practice Reports:

·         Postgraduate research and coursework degrees

·         Standards

Projects 1–3 are larger strategic projects of national interest and we would anticipate proposals for funding of $220,000 and beyond.The OLT may award one or more grants to address a strategic topic.

Project 4, National learning and teaching resource audit and classification, has funding available of up to $150,000 and the  Good Practice Reports have funding of $30,000 each.

Applications should be received no later than p.m. (AEST) Friday 28 June 2013

The OLT would be grateful if you could forward this information to interested members of your staff.

More information and application instructions may be found at

http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects.

Kind regards

Suzi Hewlett

General Manager

Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 

GPO Box 9880, Sydney, NSW 2001

(02) 9246 0487 | trish.treagus@innovation.gov.au| http://www.olt.gov.au

ABN 74 599 608 295

Wattle notice

Hi all,

Please note the following:

Adobe Connect Scheduled Maintenance

Start: 7:30 AM Tuesday, June 4, 2013

End:   9:00 AM Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Duration: 1.5 hours

Please note that this outage will only affect the Adobe Connect service. The Wattle environment will continue as normal.

The reason for this outage is the relocation of hosting infrastructure for Adobe Connect as determined by ITS.

We have added a notice to the main Wattle Login page with these details.

With regards,

Danielle

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Danielle Anderson

Manager

Wattle Business Solutions Group
Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

+61 2 6125 1087
+61 2 6125 4023
danielle.anderson@anu.edu.au

CRICOS Provider #00120C
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CHELT seminar

(Tomorrow) May 29: 3.30-5.00 pm    Learning: Do emotions matter in teaching and learning

In recent decades, it has been common to apply a scientific approach to teaching and learning, with a view to identifying the ‘best’ instructional procedures and techniques through an objective process. However, the most recent research in neuroscience suggests that human behaviour, and therefore learning, is governed by both cognitive and affective (emotional) processes. Research on emotions has incubated a new stream of research into what is known as ‘affective learning’, coming mainly from MIT's media lab.
This Academic Development Module, led by CHELT Visiting Fellow Professor Hans Heinimann (ETH Zurich) and Dr Beth Beckmann (CHELT), considers the role of emotions in human learning and explores the implications for current, and especially future, approaches to teaching and learning.
Register here #     CHELT Seminar Room, Building 10T
http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/chelt-seminars-2013

May 30 - Using the Research Skill Development Framework to drive initiatives in research-led education

May 30 - Introducing the Research Skill Development Framework: a tool for development and mapping  

May 30 - Using the Research Skill Development Framework to support HDR supervision

June 5 - Threshold Concepts: What are they and how might they help us in teaching and learning?

June 12 – Flexible and technology-enhanced learning (Foundations module F7 http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/foundations

June 14 - Assessment for learning

June 17 – Evaluation and Improvement (Foundations module F8 http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/foundations

June 17 – Supporting our students (Foundations module F9 http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/foundations)

June 20 – Designing teaching for effective learning (Foundations module F10 http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/foundations)

June 22 – Copyright for Lecturers (date-saver)

June 26 - Designing ill-structured problems to trigger learning

July 9 - Scaffolding Learning

July 17 – Learning Analytics (date-saver)

August 5 - Assessment: The value and challenges of using explicit criteria in marking and providing feedback

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Dr Elizabeth (Beth) Beckmann SFHEA CMALT  |   Senior Lecturer, Staff Education (Teaching & Learning)
Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching (CHELT)  |  The Australian National University  |  CRICOS 00120C
T: +61 2 6125 0057  |  E: elizabeth.beckmann@anu.edu.au |  Web: http://chelt.anu.edu.au/people/dr-beth-beckmann
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