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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…

e-assessment – Practices, Challenges, Opportunities Let’s explore the challenges and opportunities of e-assessment together at ACODE 81. What technology infrastructure, tools and services are in place or planned to support e-assessment at your university: what’s working; what doesn’t work; what might work ‘if only’? What challenges have arisen, and how has your university addressed them? …

Are you wondering what other Higher Education Institutions are doing around Immersive Learning and Emerging Technologies?  Join us at Griffith University for a 2 day Immersive Learning event where those Colleagues who manage emerging technologies, and leading practitioners from across the Australasian Landscape will share their experiences, both at an Institutional and ‘on the ground’…

Engaging in large-scale LMS change and evolution of learning systems  The Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), is widely regarded as a key element of the modern university learning infrastructure. Over the last twenty years the LMS has evolved into the powerful and highly complex systems offered by major vendors including Blackboard,…