Online learning

A Drag and Drop Quiz intends to encourage students to identify, match and recall main concepts in a course. Drag and drop quizzes can be offered as a variation to multiple choice or true/false questions. 

Lecturer Audio Explanation provides students with the opportunity to recall and reflect on underlying course concepts. This activity enables staff to exhibit good practice (refer to Resources/Technology) to support student learning. Additionally, valuable apps: ShowMe, VideoScribe, Narrable, Moovlycan or Powtoon (refer to Technology/Resources) are available for mobile devices, such as ipads or iphones, to explain underlying or difficult concepts.

Open Educational Resources (OER) Videos are useful for learning, teaching and research. OER videos have an open license for reuse under Creative Commons  and can be accessed through the Library Learning Repository.

Sharing the load enables students to apply and construct collective and collaborative note taking and summaries.  Joint note taking and summaries allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the topic or concept in a personal and meaningful way.

Annotated Resources provide students with the opportunity to reflect on readings and presentations. The readings and presentations as primary documents can be annotated, in multimedia resources, by adding text, voice or video comments. Voicethread (refer to Resources/Technology) allows annotation in documents and presentations by lecturers and students.

Check Your Impact intends to encourage students, individually or in groups, to participate in authentic learning activities to establish their impact on the world through globalisation and sustainability.

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.

What’s Your Curation Strategy activity intends to show students how to build a personal curation strategy to manage information resources for retrieval, reflection, reuse and sharing with others for study or work purposes.

The Weekly Expert Broadcast allows students to discover the forthcoming weekly topic. It gives them an opportunity to consider one challenging concept or illuminating example for the forthcoming week.

Make Lessons Worth Sharing explains course concepts through TED videos. TED-ED enables lecturers to create lessons and share the videos as educational resources.