What's On? Flex:Ed Professional Development Activities

Flex:Ed provides exciting professional development opportunities (PD) for staff. PD topics include online learning design, cool e-learning tools, the Online Learning Environment, facilitating learning and Web 2.0 interaction and collaboration.

PD is offered in formats as diverse as mentoring and coaching, virtual workshops and seminars, face to face classes and audiovisual training tutorials and downloadable learning objects.You can find the information for Sessions and Activites below:

FLEX:ED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUMS

Developing Skills...Virtually - Weekly Lunchtime Sessions

Now EVERY THURSDAY during term time between 12.30pm to 1.30pm there will be an online PD session about flexible and online learning (and other matters) facilitated by Flex:Ed, Centre for Education Excellence.

The sessions will be delivered via the eLearn Virtual Meeting Room at CIT.

Sessions will be in the same time slot every week for the duration of each term. The first session delivered each term will be an introduction to virtual classrooms and how to use them. The Wimba virtual classroom will be avaliable in eLearn, our new virtual learning environment.

The PD sessions will be about flexible and online teaching and learning: teachers will have an opportunity to showcase their work in, eg, designing and implementing online courses, collaborating in OLE, or developing innovative projects in flexible and online learning, showcasing new tools for content development and packaging, demonstrating favoured techniques and software, discussing pedagogical issues and design approaches. However we encourage non teaching Centres to take the opportunity to deliver workshops on other matters of interest to CIT staff.

The eLearn virtual classroom (Wimba) will automatically install the software it needs on your computer. Follow the prompts on screen to confirm each phase of the installation and after a few minutes you will be ready to participate live online.

If you have problems contact online@cit.act.edu.au or call 6207 3833.

TEACHING AND LEARNING PD WORKSHOPS 2010

eLearn is here!

The eLearn Implementation Project (A CIT Online initiative) has been developing in the background and our Pilot Phase has wrapped up.

eLearn Orientation sessions will continue this term and throughout the year. Regular sessions will be available on all CIT campuses and online via our virtual lunchtime sessions.

Term 3 Program

Download a full list of Term 3 PD Workshops (PDF)

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Recordings from previous online sessions:

• Tales from the coalface (90MB wmv): Experiences from the introduction of a new open source learning management system at CSU - By Janet Buchans.
• Teaching Tools for New Cultural Expertise (54MB swf) will offer an opportunity to examine and understand important concepts about cultural diversity and how these can impact teaching practice - By Carol skinner and Annette Sharma.
• Learning objects: What are the rest of the world doing with them? (30Mb wmv) By Helen Lynch
• Introduction to Virtual Classrooms - Introducing our new eLearn Virtual classroom - By Kerry Trabinger (60Mb wmv) 13/10/09
• Introducing ADDIE – an education design process that works - By Helen Lynch (30Mb wmv) 20/10/09
• eLearn - coming soon to a computer near you! - Link to Flex:Ed Virtual Session on Wimba. 17/11/09
• Communication and Collaboration - Virtual Classroom Session on Wimba. By Colin Simpson. 31/03/10 (56Mb mp4)

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CALL FOR PRESENTERS

Flex:Ed  would love to hear what you are doing in online or flexible learning – so if you would like to deliver a session – please call Helen Lynch on 6207 4031 or email helen.lynch@cit.act.edu.au.

Flex:Ed will give you some training if needed and a Flex:Ed staffer will be on hand to co-facilitate your session.

Toolbox Seminars and Workshops

• Toolbox Calendar of Events

For more information:

Call or email Helen Lynch, 6207 4031 or  helen.lynch@cit.act.edu.au




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