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Learning Enhancement and Innovation Highlights of 2019

year-in-review

Happy New Year from everyone in the Learning Enhancement and Innovation unit! 2019 was a big year for us and we wanted to share some of our highlights and big wins for the year.

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Improving group dynamics with SPLAT – Q&A Hayley McGrice

Hayley-McGrice

SPLAT is an online tool used by students to assess the contributions of individual members of their team, as well as themselves. Using course coordinator-defined criteria, an individual weighting factor, more commonly known as a Peer Assessment Factor or PAF, can be calculated for each student. 

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ADEPTing to Learning Analytics – Q&A with Dr. David Wilson

Adept

The ADEPT Professional Development program provides staff with the opportunity to further develop their capabilities, underpinning knowledge to create and deliver contemporary, student-driven and collaborative learning environments.

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Lifelong learning with LinkedIn

LinkedIn

Sharon Scott provides some insight into the new partnership between The University of Adelaide and LinkedIn Learning. This will be offered to both staff and students. Read Sharon’s blog to gather further information on this exciting new opportunity.

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Adding to your tool kit: Academic Skills Resources

tool kit

The Academic Skills Resources are a collection of resources focused on supporting the development of essential capabilities to support students in creating various forms of academic work. 

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Real world experience: Q&A with Katy Dolman

real world experience

Katy Dolman, Manager, Internships shares her knowledge on internships and how valuable they can be for students. 

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PEP Talk: Q&A with a LEO

Jack

The LEI team has maintained and continued to grow a student presence in all our projects. We do this with a little help from our Learning Enhancement Officers (LEOs). 

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PEP in your step: Q&A with Dr. Camille Buhl

PEP

Being involved in our PEP workshops can fast track your course design process and allow you to enter the semester with a solid framework. 

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PEP: Resealing the Education Road Well-Travelled

MN

We spoke with one of our newest Learning Designers, Dr Matthew Norris, who has been involved with the Program Enhancement Partnerships (PEP) and asked him to provide some insight to the process of PEP.

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Design for People

design

When designing courses, equipment or anything where humans are the end user, the idea of designing specially for the human can get lost in the project or design. 

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