D2L Fusion 2021

Wodonga Middle Years College has developed a framework for the success of their teachers and students in the move to online education. Learn how they evolved their teaching strategies over the years. From the initial focused development of templated courses to ensure that all teachers have access to a minimum standard of courses and thereby ensuring learners receive consistent experiences, to enabling teachers who choose to adopt more powerful blended learning capabilities in Brightspace for personalised learning, such as release conditions, automated communications and scaffolding courses for learning.

This presentation will introduce the new ‘Live Engagement Tools’ developed by Victoria University and how they can be utilised to further engage students in their learning. The presentation will also showcase the new Brightspace integration of H5P into the Quiz tool that will enable greater authenticity of question types for summative assessment.

This presentation will explore the use of a collaborative, user-centred approach to design a learning analytics web app which integrates various data sources to present a holistic, timely and actionable view of student progress and success. The app presents data in various contexts during teaching weeks, making use of Brightspace Data Sets and Data Streams. It is linked to University support services and resources, and communication systems to enable teaching teams to provide targeted support and dialogic feedback to students.

The use of technology equates to the availability of data and sometimes it may seem like there’s too much data especially when you’re still trying to get a grasp on this new found access. Let our expert take you through ways data and analytics can work to your advantage, making your role easier as a business, as a faculty member or trainer.

The demands of the workforce are ever evolving and this impacts the needs of employees who are part of a generation of lifelong learners. Find out how The College for Adult Learning has successfully ensured the creation and delivery of bespoke industry-relevant accredited courses and provides flexible learning that delivers specific skills ‘just in time’ to individuals to meet the needs of employing organisations.

With an escalated need due to the pandemic, the Australian Childhood Foundation ensured education continuity by switching the delivery of traditionally in-person courses to blended or fully online learning. With their focus on finding ways to maintain the relational connection with their learners fundamental to the training content, hear more about their learnings throughout this experience, as well as how and why they’ve tweaked the syllabus to hybrid learning.

In the past year Micro-credentialing has become a key priority in the education and corporate learning sector as learners demand more responsive, skills based short course offerings. TAFE QLD as one of the country’s leading providers of skills-based pathways will discuss how they have approached micro-credentialing with a focus on the type of course offerings that they have developed and how they augment the traditional qualifications based course offerings.

Education shouldn’t be a one-way delivery especially when children today are set on the path of being life-long learners who will have to take charge of their own learning journeys. Hear how Saint Stephen’s College is leveraging on learner data and providing feedback to ensure the transparency of every student’s performance. Students and parents alike can keep updated throughout the course, rather than waiting for the end of term assessment. These are guard rails set in place with the key intent of getting students involved in their own learning paths and knowing where they stand, with the added visibility for parents at home.

Feedback from teachers is of essence in any student’s learning journey, especially to the young minds of students in schools. Discover the variety of ways an educator can provide authentic and contextual feedback to students that aren’t just limited to scribbling comments with a red pen on assignments. Be it through video notes, or sending virtual nudges in the form of quick messages, these methods can be used to facilitate administrative efficiency and transparency with parents.