This is a brief presentation that I made for the ASCILITE Learning Design SIG
Category: Learning Design
An ‘experience generator’: Extended Reality’s growing potential in classrooms
This is an excerpt from an article I wrote about VR in schools. Few educational trends stimulate the immediate excitement of Extended Reality (XR). People recall movies like The Matrix, where there is an entire world that exists virtually, or Minority Report, where there are futuristic, gesture-based screens and user interfaces. Yet, despite the promise of Hollywood,…
VR and learning design: challenges and possibilities for teachers and students
I was recently interviewed by Brett Henebery from The Educator about VR use in schools. Excerpt below: Studies have shown that Virtual reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies can be used to improve the design of learning spaces, allowing students to learn without distraction, as well as simulate the classroom experience for pre-service teachers, who can…
UDL and GCLD
This is a short video that I shot all about UDL in the GCLD.
Belonging, automatically: video feedback to boost engagement
How do you nurture belonging and engagement with diverse student cohorts, at a distance? Keith Heggart from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) shares learnings from a trial of automated video feedback in the new Graduate Certificate in Learning Design. Read more here.
RESHUB Modules: Transdisciplinary and Team Research
This is a presentation that I gave about some Learning Design work I undertook at UTS.
Moving on up: experiences and advice from 3 learning design graduates
This is a nice article by Anna Stack about some of the GCLD graduates. The LX.lab Design team are a group of Learning Design and Technology Specialists supporting academics at UTS. Recently they had an opportunity to work with work placement interns from the UTS Graduate Certificate in Learning Design. This internship-like opportunity is linked to the…
ADE Reflection 2021
Education focussed Pracademics on Twitter: Building democratic fora
This is a presentation that I did with Steven Kolber regarding our work on #edureading.
Game and Gamification Presentation
This is a presentation that I did to Charles Darwin University pre-service teachers about games and gamification.