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The following a collection of resources associated with a 15 minute presentation to the other teams within USQ's Office for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (OALT) explaining what people should know about the Educational Excellence & Innovation (EEI) team at this point in time, and what we'd like to know about the other members of OALT....more...
At some stage soon I need to start developing a report on "learning and teaching portals". i.e. how our institution deals with online resources around learning and teaching. There are a few issues with how we do it, and it appears that we're not alone...more...
So the indicators notebooks/platform is on github. The one and only bit of analysis is almost completely useless and still requires a fair bit of set up code. The aims in this post are...more...
Following on from the last post the following documents how to share the "indicators platform" for analytics via github. It's largely intended to help @beerc. I doubt there's nothing (at the moment) that makes this inherently interesting for anyone else....more...
The last post documented early explorations of Jupyter notebooks ending with a simple query of a Moodle database. This post takes the first baby steps toward some sort of indicators platform using Jupyter notebooks, Python and github. The focus here is to find some form of ORM or other form of database independent layer....more...
This is the third in a series of posts documenting "thinking" and progress around the next step of some bricolage with learning analytics and attempts to make some progress with the Indicators project....more...
This is the 2nd in 3 posts thinking about learning analytics and how we might engage with it better. The first rambled on about reproducible research and hunted for what we might do....more...
The team I work with have been tasked to rethink how our institution does teaching awards, grants, and professional learning opportunities. i.e. the funding our institution provides to teaching focused staff in recognition of quality work (awards), to develop a good idea (grants), or learn something new (professional learning opportunities). Since I'm strange, we're using a slightly different approach (at least based on reactions so far) to what others are used to. The following is an attempt to explain the approach and what passes for the thinking behind it....more...
One of the significant challenges I'll be facing in the new position are around how to help the institution effectively engage teaching academics in relevant communication/professional learning that will help them. One of the immediate challenges from this task is identifying examples of good practice that have attempted to unify communication and professional learning for teaching at Universities into something user-centered and contemporary....more...
There are moves afoot to revisit some of the earlier research arising from Indicators project and hopefully move beyond. To do that well we need to give some thought to updating the methods we use to analyse, share and report what we're doing. In particular, because we're now a cross-institutional project. The following captures some early exploration of this problem....more...