Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.
The Group Presentations activity intends to encourage students to participate in team work either through multiple channels or multiple locations. The activity is developed over a number of weeks and is designed to be scaffolded by the work done in lectures and tutorials as the course develops.
Facebook page as a broadcast channel provides first year students, in a core course, with the opportunity to identify theory in action and induct them into the digital landscape of their chosen field, guiding them around key websites, publications and experts through social curation.
The Analytical Framework: 7Ps allows students to identify, describe and define key resources of a case study or product description when reviewing strategies.
An international approach to the threeway communication loop between student, industry and university is key to allowing students to work effectively in global contexts with issues as diverse as cross-cultural understanding, production workflows and online collaboration. This model supports students’ learning for future employment.
This pattern documents a process used in the Juris Doctor program to incorporate a video annotation tool into the delivery of curriculum involving simulations and role plays. Video annotation provides the opportunity for students to engage with video material in an active rather than passive mode, and can heighten collaborative group discussion and student reflection.
Programming is taught as of first year in Computer Science and cognate disciplines and is known to be challenging (to first year students). In CSIT the key first year programming course is Programming 1.
Typically, and this is a worldwide phenomenon, first year programming courses experience high failure and attrition rates.
The Associate Degree in Engineering Technology (AD026) is a two year program offered in the School of Vocational Engineering. This program provides training in basic engineering skills, and can lead to a pathway into other engineering degrees.
This project involved three courses taught in the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Chinese Medicine) as well as the Masters of Acupuncture.
This pattern outlines an approach to provide law students with an advance organiser to assist them to understand and master a number of practical skills they will need in their practice as lawyers, including:
In October 2013, fashion program students at RMIT University, the University of Salford and Columbia College participated in a live collaboration project, the Global Fashion Design Challenge. This was the third challenge in an ongoing annual collaboration that originally commenced in 2011.
