Each year I find a theme to talk about at conferences and events. This evolves during the year (sometimes I don't know what the theme is until later). But it looks like it will be:
Blend, Flip, and Back to the Classroom
"In 2008 Tom Worthington ended his last lecture for the year at ANU by
announcing it would be his last lecture, ever (1). Having become
disillusioned with the lecture format, he has been teaching online for
the last ten years, with his award winning course offered by three institutions, in
Australia and North America (2). During that time Tom looked at alternative classroom designs in Australia and around the world. In February 2019 the Australian National University unveiled a
flexible teaching building (3). So this year Tom is going back to the
classroom to apply what he has learned, with a blend of online and
classroom teaching in the new building(4). This is intended to be a model for how academics
can easily convert conventional courses to new interactive ways of
learning, and provide for blended, or fully online, education."
References
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Worthington, T. My Last Lecture, Net Traveller (Blog), August 20, 2008.
URL https://blog.tomw.net.au/2008/08/my-last-lecture.html
- Worthington, T., "A
Green computing professional education course online: Designing and
delivering a course in ICT sustainability using Internet and eBooks," Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2012 7th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.263,266, 14-17 July 2012 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCSE.2012.6295070 Preprint available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9013
- Worthington, T. Learning to Teach in the New ANU Teaching Building, Higher Education Whisperer (Blog), February 11, 2019. URL https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2019/02/learning-to-teach-in-new-anu-teaching.html
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ps: Last year the theme ended up "
Blended Learning for the Indo-Pacific",
presented as a short paper at the IEEE International Conference on
Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2018) in
December. This started out at the beginning of the year with an invitation from Sri Lanka's computer
society to
speak at their national conference. But before this the Australian Computer
Society had a gap in their Canberra conference, so I first spoke on
this, with 24 hours notice, in September under the title "
Mobile Learning from Canberra with Microcredentials and Blockchain for the Indo-Pacific: Colombo Plan 2.0". Also I prepared a version for the
Senate Inquiry into UN Sustainable Development Goals, and did a repeat performance for the
ACEN WIL Snapshots Second Chance Conference. There may have been a few guest lecture versions as well.
