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It should come as no surprise to anybody involved in technology enhanced learning that the recent advent of ChatGPT, and more broadly AI Transformers, has put the preverbal cat among the pigeons over the last couple of months. If you have been following our recent Forum posts you will have also seen that there is…

A lot has transpired since the ACODE 81 workshop (e-Assessment: practices, challenges, opportunities) and new challenges have emerged around examinations particularly as it relates to assessment security, academic integrity and eProctoring. At the same time, the risks linked to the latest generation of artificial intelligence tools are quickly becoming real threats to our well-established approaches…

Remember the webinar Pre Benchmarking summit : This should help you to navigate the tools and make the series a rewarding experience for your institutions  The webinar will be held Friday 29th April 2022 11.30am AEST please follow this link:   Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://aarnet.zoom.us/j/89985491849?pwd=ZWs2eWp0WmZJeDY1Q3BpUUFneVowUT09     Password: 656043 For recordings…

The focus, as you might get from the title is all about making this achievable and sustainable moving forward. Or do we all still have to wait another 12 months to 2 years for the next big thing to come along, or for headsets to get cheaper? In other words, what are some of the…

“The diverse nature of university students, aided and abetted by the growth of pervasive learning technologies, has made the passive classroom an obsolete solution. The contemporary campus is a dynamic eco-system where ‘flexible’ Learning Spaces are valued according to their interactive capability – measured in terms of accessibility and availability.  The ‘dynamic’ Learning Space, whether…

Virtual Learning: from survival to purpose The last 30 year has seen a gradual and progressive shift in the delivery of distance and elearning. 2020 saw a vast acceleration in the use of educational technologies, such that online delivery is increasingly accepted as a normal part of a student’s educational experience. The transition has also…

Online  COVID-19 brought many challenges for higher education that are still being worked through. For our students and educators, collaboration and groupwork have taken on a new virtual dimension.  In our COVID-19 reality, how can we continue reap the benefits of collaboration and groupwork for students’ learning? How does collaboration and groupwork in learning and…

  Online Higher Education was perhaps one of the first industries disrupted world-wide by COVID-19 which presented as an immediate crisis and created challenges that required urgent resolution. In reality the Higher Education sector was already dealing with a number of issues that were causing disturbance of their own including technology-driven disruption to traditional teaching…

*Now online from the August 31 for eight weeks To participate each Institution must do a minimum of 2 Benchmarks We will do one Benchmark a week beginning on the 31st August between 10 – 12 AEST   Benchmark 1 – 31st August Benchmark 2 – 7th September  https://aarnet.zoom.us/j/93196755260?pwd=WnBxamhxUDFnMi9Ma0pUbXRaOE1SUT09    Password: 337122 Benchmark 3 – 14th…

Are you wondering how other Australasian Higher Education Institutions and Innovators are managing, designing and developing emergent technologies to support Learning & Teaching in Practice?  Join us online for the 2nd #ANewReality. a 2-day Immersive Learning event where those Colleagues who manage emerging technologies, and leading practitioners from across the Australasian Landscape will share their…