* Scaffolding competency with the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching: 4th Webinar in advance of I-MELT
* UNSW recruiting for Senior Manager, Academic Development Services Level 10
* ALASI 2017 - Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute at UQ St Lucia
* Join us for a post conference workshop at ASCILITE 2017!
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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Scaffolding competency with the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching: 4th Webinar in advance of I-MELT
16 November 2017

Dear colleagues

Join presenters from Victorian Institutions for a webinar on using the MELT (Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching) for Scaffolding Competency in contexts as varied as the Nursing Handover and learning in mathematics.

Short papers for this topic are available:

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/rsd/i-melt/papers/#Vervoorst
https://reskidev.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/clinical-handover4oct17.pdf

Reading the abstracts of these in advance will be a great warm-up for the webinar.

Twenty plus short papers for I-MELT http://www.adelaide.edu.au/rsd/i-melt/papers/ from previous webinar themes and numerous other themes are also available.

This is the fourth webinar on the series on the various uses of the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (www.melt.edu.au).

See https://reskidev.wordpress.com/ for discussions on this theme and other MELT themes such as Evidenced Based Decision Making, and Work Integrated Learning.

Date: Thursday 16 November, 1 hour
12.30 pm Central Daylight time (+10.30 GMT/Universal time)
1.00 pm Eastern Daylight time
12.00 pm Eastern Standard time
10.00 am WA

URL: https://adelaide.zoom.us/j/311161539

The Zoom platform is web-based and user friendly 

You may just want to text chat or observe, but I encourage you to 'voice in'. If using a mic, please run a sound-check within Zoom before commencement time. Click on the arrow next to the mic icon, bottom left, choose ‘Audio options’ and click ‘Test computer mic and speakers’.

I hope to see you online
John Willison
University of Adelaide

Further information john.willison@adelaide.edu.au

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UNSW recruiting for Senior Manager, Academic Development Services Level 10
26 November 2017

Situated within, and working with the Director and Academic Development Services team, the Senior Manager (Academic Development Services) will provide high level executive support and advice to the Director, Academic Development Services and to the PVC (Education) on the strategy, development, implementation and quality assurance of academic Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs and career development initiatives for academic development across UNSW. The Senior Manager will teach on both the non-accredited and accredited programs and courses designed for academics and educational designers and developers and is responsible for the preparation, review, analysis, regular reporting and recommendations for the ongoing improvement of the Portfolio’s CPD programs and career development initiatives.

Further information: https://applicant.cghrm.unsw.edu.au/psp/hrm/NS_CAREERS/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.H...

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ALASI 2017 - Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute at UQ St Lucia
30 November and 1 December 2017

The University of Queensland, Learning Analytics team at the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation is hosting the ALASI 2017 conference on Thursday 30 November and Friday 1 December at the St Lucia UQ campus.

Staff and students are invited to the ALASI 2017 conference. The Learning Analytics Summer Institutes are international community and discipline-building events created by the Society for Learning Analytics Research. ALASI is the main forum in Australia for the exchange of knowledge, innovation and experiences in the area of learning analytics. 

To learn more please visit the ALASI 2017 website. 

If you have any further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the Learning Analytics team via email at learninganalytics@uq.edu.au

Further information http://itali.uq.edu.au/alasi2017

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Join us for a post conference workshop at ASCILITE 2017!
7 December 2017

Coming to ASCILITE 2017? Extend your conference experience with a post conference workshop.

Not attending ASCILITE? Workshops are open to everyone - not just ASCILITE delegates!

We've got three exciting post conference workshops lined up. Here's a little bit about what's on offer.

Workshop 1: It’s Pedagogy GO with location-based mobile learning games

Thursday 7 December, 10am – 1pm
USQ Toowoomba, Z Block, Room 122
$100 (includes light lunch)

Facilitator: Roger Edmonds

In this interactive workshop, the facilitators will take you through all the steps of designing and developing a location-based mobile learning game using an online platform which is made for anyone to use to create and explore stories at locations of their choosing.

Workshop 2: Transforming exams – hands on with the technology

Thursday 7 December, 10am – 1.30pm
USQ Toowoomba, T Block, Room 125
Free (includes light lunch)

Facilitators: Mathew Hillier, Andrew Fluck, Martin Coleman

This workshop will explore the rationale behind the OLT e-Exam system for high stakes exams, however, the majority of the session will be spent getting hands-on with the technology! Participants will explore different features or modes of the e-Exam system. Starting with paper-equivalent exams centred on word documents, through to post-paper exams that can use spreadsheets, multimedia, third party software tools and potentially an off-line Moodle.

Workshop 3: Mobile virtual reality

Thursday 7 December, 10am – 4pm
USQ Toowoomba, T Block, Room 125
$150 (includes light lunch)

Facilitators: Thomas Cochrane and David Sinfield

The workshop will explore user generated mobile 360 video production and integration into interactive virtual reality environments for education. Participants will experience using a low-cost, BYOD, rapid prototyping framework to create and share their own immersive mobile VR scenarios.

Further information http://2017conference.ascilite.org/program/workshops/

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Higher Education in the Headlines

Dawkins $30m road to recovery | TIM DODD | Australian Higher Education | 15 November, 2017
The financially troubled Victoria University will today launch a ­recovery plan that will save $30 million next year.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/dawkins-maps-out-his-30...

The Button-Down Anarchist | Nell Gluckman | Chronicle of Higher Education | 10 November, 2017
Dartmouth’s Mark Bray has become the scholar who explains antifa to the world. What’s his place in academe?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Button-Down-Anarchist/241667

Overseas students ‘pay £8K each to fund UK research’ | Simon Baker | Times Higher Education | 09 November, 2017
Stark figures in new Hepi report prompt calls for chancellor to tackle research underfunding in budget
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/overseas-students-pay-8k-each-...