ANU Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education Certificate

This week I received my ANU Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education Certificate. This required completing ten short online "ANU Coffee Courses" and a 500 word reflection. As with previous such courses I found the difficult part was to keep up the work week after week and then try to make sense of it all in the reflection. This was a pilot program and there may be some changes before it is offered more widely.

The notes from the ANU Coffee Courses are available online. Here are the ones I completed:

Code	Course	Length
AOC003	Engaging students online	1.5 Hours
AOC004	Open Educational Practice	2 Hours
AOC006	Enhancing your lectures	2 Hours
AOC007	Virtual Reality-Imagining new educational reality	2 Hours
AOC008	Video in Teaching and Learning: Why video?	2 Hours
AOC009	Video in Teaching and Learning: Creating videos	2 Hours
AOC010	Open Education: From Resources to Practice	2 Hours
AOC011	Build your researcher profile	1 Hour
AOC012	Getting Started with ePortfolios	1.5 Hours
AOC013	Fostering student wellbeing	1 Hour
AOC014	Deep and Interactive Learning in lectures	1 Hour
AOC015	Group and collaborative learning	2 Hours
AOC017	Peer assessment and feedback	1 Hour
AOC018	Designing Online Learning Environments	1 Hour

Online Course for Fostering Student Wellbeing

A free online short course in "Fostering student wellbeing in your teaching practice" is being offered by the Australian National University. The course is lead by Alexandra Culloden, Wellbeing Project Coordinator . The course from 22 to 24 January taking only 15 minutes per day (reading, videos and on-line discussion). This is one of a series of "Coffee Courses" intended to take the student as much time as to drink a coffee each day.

Open Educational Resources: Short free online course starts Monday from ANU

A free on-line course "Open Educational Resources: A Continuum for Practice" is being offered by the Australian National University (ANU), starting Monday. This is in the ANU Online Coffee Course Series, where the student spends fifteen minutes a day studying for a week. There are no tests, just on-line discussion.

"In this upcoming course, you’ll explore some of the deeper issues surrounding open education; specifically, practical decisions and questions that should be asked when developing, reusing, and collaborating on open education activities. Each day the facilitators will provide stimulus for reflection and group discussion, as well as a synthesis of the previous days’ discussion."

Modules

1. From Resources to Practice: why ‘mere access’ isn’t enough.
2. ‘I’ll know it when I see it’, or, usefully defining quality in openness.
3. Assessment in an open world: beyond the disposable assignment.
4. Designing for reuse: PDF and the open practitioner.
5. ‘Nothing new’ or radical reality? Putting openness into practice.

Facilitators

Adrian Stagg, Manager (Open Educational Practice) for the University of Southern Queensland.

Emma Power, research assistant for the Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Office (SILS), at the University of Southern Queensland.