ASCILITE 2020 Conference Online 30 November

The ASCILITE 2020 Conference will be the organisation's first online. This is hosted 30 November and 2 December by UNE. This will be my first ASCILITE and I am an author on two joint papers: 

1. A collaborative design model to support hybrid learning environments during COVID19 by Cochrane, Birt, Cowie, Deneen, Goldacre, Narayan, Ransom, Sinfield & Worthington (Day 2, Session 4, Stream A, 11:30AM).
2. A mobile ecology of resources for Covid-19 learning by Narayan, Cochrane, Cowie, Birt, Hinze, Goldacre, Deneen, Ransom, Sinfield and Worthington (Day 2, Session 4, Stream C, 11:30AM).

These have been scheduled for parallel sessions at the same time at the conference. Normally this would involve a sprint down the corridor (in  some conference centers this might be half a kilometre and up several floors). Online it should be a couple of clicks, or as there are so many authors we can just divide up).

This is my first ASCILITE (I did attend a concurrent program at ASCILITE 2019 Singapore). The one and only time I submitted a paper previously, the reviews were so witheringly condescending that I gave up the whole idea of submitting a paper, or attending. The reviews of the joint papers this time were much more positive, indicating the fault was not with the reviewers, but my previous authorship. ;-)

The practice at face to face conferences is to keep on to time, not start early, so people can catch a specific presentation. However, I like the idea that you pick a session and have to stick with it. With four parallel steams this can be difficult. Here are my picks:

1:30 — 3:00 pm Breakout Zoom Session 1

Session 1 - Stream A Bend me, stretch me: connecting learning design to choice - Carmen Vallis and Courtney Shalavin ID: 32 Rising to the occasion: Exploring the changing emphasis on educational design during COVID-19 - Amanda Bellaby, Michael Sankey and Louis Albert ID: 64 Excellence in design for online business - Annora Eyt-Dessus and Leonard Houx ID: 81

Session 1 - Stream B A spectrum of assessments - Rina Shvartsman and Stephen Abblitt ID: 35 Learning from COVID-19 to futureproof assessment in Business Education - Sandra Barker, Harsh Suri, Brent Gregory, Audrea Warner, Amanda White, Vivek Venkiteswaran and Una Lightfoot ID: 70 Modelling the impact of alternative educational qualifications on the New Zealand higher education system - Stephen Marshall ID: 73

Session 1 - Stream C Dealing with Diversity: Factors discouraging participation of Māori and Pacifica females in ICT education - Scott Morton, Petrea Redmond and Peter Albion ID: 4 Active learning in the time of the pandemic: Report from the eye of the storm - Iwona Czaplinski, Christine Devine, Martin Sillence, Andrew Fielding, Oliver Gaede and Christoph Schrank ID: 11 Investigating links between students’ agency experiences in digital educational interactions, participation and academic performance - Maria Hvid Stenalt ID: 82

Session 1 - Stream D Pecha Kucha D1 3 Alagu Sundaram  Nurturing Self-Directedness in Learners in a Fully Online Module

3:00 — 3:30 pm— Break —3:30 — 5:00 pmBreakout Session 2

Session 2 - Stream A Reimagining IL teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic:  Research and evidence-based practice skills training redesigned for online delivery. - Fiona Jones, Abigail Baker, Raymond A'Court and Jo Hardy ID: 56 Learning from a rapid transition to emergency remote teaching: Developing a typology of online business education designs - Elaine Huber, Celina McEwen, Peter Bryant, Matthew Taylor, Natasha Arthars and Henry Boateng ID: 77 Promoting student engagement and preparation in flipped learning’s pre-class activities – A systematic review - Jessica Shan Mei Yang ID: 9

Session 2 - Stream B The benefits of creating open educational resources as assessment in an online education course - Eseta Tualaulelei ID: 16 (e)Portfolio: a history - Orna Farrell ID: 13 Assessing esport candidacy for critical thinking education - Ger Post and James Birt ID: 20 Collaborative approach and lessons learnt from transitioning to remotely invigilated online examinations - Vinh Tran, Justin Chu and Jasmine Cheng ID: 48

Session 2 - Stream C A rationale for using interactive and immersive technology to support practical skill development of online OHS education - Elise Crawford, Frank Bogna, Aldo Raineri and Ryan L. Kift ID: 59 The post-pandemic blended university in the time of digitisation - Philip Uys and Mike Douse ID: 6 Predictors of students’ perceived learning in off-campus learning environment: Online interactions are not enough - David Kwok ID: 23 Emergency responses to teaching, assessment and student support during the COVID-19 pandemic - Alison Reedy, Kalie Carmichael and Oriel Kelly ID: 67

Session 2 - Stream D Pecha Kucha For a full list of Pecha Kucha presentations click here

Session 3 - Stream A Maybe It's Us: Imagining Organisational Learning Design - Sarah Thorneycroft ID: 41 Three arrows models in the developing of new digital learning experiences - Pablo Riveros Riveros, Mika Tamura Tamura and Jin Tanaka Tanaka ID: 51 Should we care about what the students do? Challenging how we design for online learning - Bettina Schwenger ID: 52 The Value of Design Patterns in Designing Teaching in Online Settings - Steven Warburton and Mark Perry ID: 55 Session 3 - Stream B Development of a rubric to assess student participation in an online discussion board - Elizabeth Ware ID: 58 Online Supervised Exams: Entering the 4th Year at UNE - Jennifer Lawrence and Kylie Day ID: 63 Transforming Assessment – Critical reflections around resolving tensions between assessment for learning and of learning - Sabina Cerimagic and Priya Khanna ID: 78 Using FeedbackFruits to enhance student learning: Scaling for transformative implementation - Chris Campbell, Lenka Borer and Sheila McCarthy ID: 88 Session 3 - Stream C Role of Social Interactions during Digital Game-based Learning in Science Education: A Systematic Review - Pey-Yng Low ID: 18 Investigating the characteristics of MOOCs: A case study - Jennifer W.M. Lai, Matt Bower, Yvonne Breyer and John De Nobile ID: 24 Revisiting the Intelligent Book: Towards Seamless Intelligent Content and Continuously Deployed Courses - William Billingsley ID: 79 Session 3 - Stream D Pecha Kucha For a full list of Pecha Kucha presentations click here
11:00 — 11:30 am	— Break —
11:30 — 1:00 pm	Breakout Zoom Session 4
Session 4 - Stream A Making engaging online videos: What can higher education teachers learn from YouTubers? - Neil Cowie and Keiko Sakui ID: 7 Process not product: negotiating innovative interdisciplinary honours outcomes - Grant Ellmers and Chris Moore ID: 19 A collaborative design model to support hybrid learning environments during COVID19 - Thomas Cochrane, James Birt, Neil Cowie, Chris Deneen, Paul Goldacre, Vickel Narayan, Lisa Ransom, David Sinfield and Tom Worthington ID: 36 The implementation of H5P in an open-access first-year human physiology subject to improve student engagement and perception of learning. - Deanna Horvath, Amy Larsen, Stuart James and Victor Renolds ID: 61 Session 4 - Stream B How do we value academic time? - Mark Schier ID: 37 Strategies for improving use of text-matching software by staff - Miriam Sullivan and Miela Kolomaznik ID: 46 Rapid response to supporting learning and teaching: A whole of university approach - Chris Campbell and Simone Poulsen ID: 54 Session 4 - Stream C An Interactive Virtual Reality Physics Instructional Environment based on Vygotskian Educational Theory - Michael Cowling and Robert Vanderburg ID: 25 A mobile ecology of resources for Covid-19 learning - Vickel Narayan, Thomas Cochrane, Neil Cowie, James Birt, Meredith Hinze, Paul Goldacre, Chris Deneen, Lisa Ransom, David Sinfield and Tom Worthington ID: 40 Applications for Virtual Reality Experiences in Tertiary Education - Ghaith Zakaria and Sonia Wilkie ID: 68 Creating a digital learning ecosystem to facilitate authentic place-based learning and international collaboration – a coastal case study - Elisa Bone, Richard Greenfield, Gray Williams and Bayden Russell ID: 84 Session 4 - Stream D Community Mentoring Program presentations
1:00 — 2:30 pm	— Lunch + extra activities (SIGs - Special Interest Groups and Zoomba) — Read extra activity information here
2:30 — 4:00 pm	Breakout Zoom Session 5
Session 5 - Stream A Understanding Learning Analytics Indicators for Predicting Study Success - Dirk Ifenthaler and Jane Yin-Kim Yau ID: 1 Content analytics for curriculum review: A learning analytics use case for exploration of learner context - Leah P. Macfadyen ID: 2 Peering into the crystal ball of the disengaged: What happens to students that do not submit an early assessment item? - Kelly Linden, Neil Van Der Ploeg, Ben Hicks, Madeline Wright and Prue Gonzalez ID: 44 Widening the net to reduce the debt: Reducing student debt by increasing identification of completely disengaged students - Neil van der Ploeg, Kelly Linden, Ben Hicks and Prue Gonzalez ID: 45 Session 5 - Stream B On effective technology integration in accounting and business education - Marina Thomas and Valeri Chukhlomin ID: 10 Supporting the transition to online teaching through evidence-based professional development - Darci Taylor and Joanne Elliott ID: 22 Immersive professional learning to foster technology-enabled peer-review - Gayani Samarawickrema and Olga Gavrilenko ID: 57 Writing Analytics Across Essay Tasks with Different Cognitive Load Demands - Eduardo Oliveira, Rianne Conijn, Paula de Barba, Kelly Trezise, Menno Van Zaanen and Gregor Kennedy ID: 39 Session 5 - Stream C 2019 Innovation, 2019 Emerging Scholar and Community Fellow Award Winner presentations