SESSION DETAILS

1. Welcome! Our focus for this meeting is on pedagogy, collaboration and collaborative learning environments.
2. Follow up from Sept 8 CoP - review of Engageli.
3. Engaging with TechDems - CoP, SIGs, Mentor program, support for course intervention.
4. TechDem application process for course interventions and L&T Assistant support.
5. Collaboration and Collaborative Learning Environments - theory and practice.
6. Guest speakers - USQ academics who foster collaboration - how they do it!
7. Discussion.
8. News, updates and opportunities.

RECORDING (and below - guest speakers start at 36:22)

SLIDES

See also below the individually edited recordings from the two guest speakers:

• Dr KC Chan - Using Padlet for student engagement
• Dr Sharon Rees - Using Voicethread for asynchronous tutorials

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Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice

1. Design for evolution.
2. Open a dialogue between inside and outside perspectives.
3. Invite different levels of participation.
4. Develop both public and private community spaces.
5. Focus on value.
6. Combine familiarity and excitement.
7. Create a rhythm for the community.

LEARN MORE about the origins and theory of communities of practice

Browse the ANU Coffee Course - Creating Communities of Practice

References:

Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W. M. (2002). Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice. In E. Wenger, R. McDermott, & W. M. Snyder (Eds.), Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge (Vol. 4, pp. 49-64). Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Share your ideas on TechDem MS Teams space - keep the discussion going!

1. What is good/effective online collaborative learning?
2. What are essential features of online collaborative tools?
3. What about collaboration and hybrid/blended learning?
4. What are the preferred online collaboration tools at USQ?
5. Do YOU know how to access and use collaboration tools for learning advantage?
6. Collaborating with those beyond USQ? Why? Who? How?
7. What are YOUR barriers and enablers to online collaboration?

2020 TechDems - Improving student engagement through collaborative learning.

• Dr Sharon Rees - Use of Voicethread
• Dr KC Chan - Use of Padlet

DOWNLOAD the 2020 TechDem course intervention reports.

The table below shares technologies used for intervention in courses to support student engagement.

PADLETS - share and contribute

• Education Technology Tools
• Education Technology Pedagogy/Andragogy - See the NEW Collaborative Learning resources.

ANU Coffee course - Group and Collaborative Learning

Empowering students for teamwork: An integrated program of in-class real (face-to-face) and virtual reality activities

Dr Angelina Fong, University of Melbourne

From HERDSA 2021

Research found that students hate group work for these reasons:

• Lack of confidence in others
• Poor group functioning leading to non-productive experiences
• Social anxiety

Watch the video below.

Special Interest Groups (SIG)

• MS Teams for Teaching
• Collaborative Learning Environments
• What other SIGs do we want? make your preferences known via the online form

INVITATION: MS Teams for Teaching - pilot S3 2021 and S1 2022

• Complete this FORM to join
• More information in the TechDem CoP Teams area
• First SIG and info meeting Sept 30

Important updates:

• 2020 TechDem reports - download file above

Upcoming immersive opportunity

The iSee interactive and virtual platform is one that USQ has engaged with in the past and again more recently. TechDem participants are invited to participate in a virtual professional learning event within the iSee platform designed specifically for USQ. Date and time to be announced - don't miss this opportunity!

What else?

ALL CoP sessions are on a Wednesday, every 2 weeks, from 1-2:30pm AEST. They are held in this Zoom Room.

...and sometimes we might jump into another online learning environment to try it out.

Evaluate educational technology (outcomes and impacts) and explore the evaluation process including data collection and analytics.

• October 6

Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research and ethical considerations as well as next steps such as applying for university grants programs.

• October 20

Smores to explore - full of great ideas and resources.

• TechDem CoP Sept. 8 2021 - TOOLS
• TechDem CoP Aug.17 2021 - Information session

Dr Julie Lindsay

Senior Education Technology Advisor

Email: julie.lindsay@usq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 46312890