Category: Learning Design
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AI and entrapment: A cautionary tale
Sandra Leonie Field reflects on the integration of AI in education. While AI tools can assist students in summarising readings and drafting essays, her recent experience reveals a more complex reality.
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Building effective collaboration: learning designers and academics partnering for educational excellence
Michael Lin offers suggestions for collaboration with academics, based on experience from multiple collaborative projects in various disciplines, from the perspective of a learning designer.
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How much teaching is too much teaching?
Russ Fox reflects on what it means to be a teacher and how teaching approaches may need to change in response to the expertise of the student.
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Students prepared for class: The Perusall effect!
Glen Croy and Tristan Cui describe how, when faced with students’ limited preparation, they adopted Perusall. With a small reward, 90-percent of students attempted preparation each week, with high comprehension. There were very positive consequences for classes, and higher-order assignments.
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Join in the conversations about stimulating examples of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into assessment
Joanne Tanner and Ari Seligmann add to ongoing worldwide discussions about the potentials for AI to be used in assessments as demonstrated by some fruitful examples collected from across Monash.
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Positioning Artificial Intelligence (AI) in assessments may seem hard but here are some ways to start the journey
Thao Vu, Zachari Swiecki and Ari Seligmann introduce recent efforts by the Monash AI in Education Learning Circle to share guidance on thinking through how to design AI into or out of assessments as we figure out how to adjust assessment practices to navigate the storm of contemporary emerging technologies.
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Enhancing healthcare through a multicultural and interdisciplinary collaboration in education
Zahra Aziz and Lilani Arulkadacham reflect on a multicultural and interdisciplinary educational collaboration for improved patient outcomes. Culturally responsive and collaborative healthcare practice requires flexible and collaborative educational approaches. One method is through Collaborative Online International Learning.
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Teams@Monash: Co-designing Teamwork Education across Monash
Martijn van der Kamp and Caroline Sanz-Veitch reflect on how the initiative “Teams@Monash” contributes to teamwork education and practices across Monash. They explain its objectives, co-design approach, and findings, and propose an agenda towards making Monash the most collaborative university.
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Collaborative researchers for tomorrow: Research, Experimentation and Discovery
Troy McGee and Mick Storr on fostering collaborative research for global challenges and educating students for interdisciplinary success.
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Traditional law assessments, accreditation requirements, and authentic assessment: a solvable conundrum?
Traditional law assessments have their place, and facilitate compliance with accreditation requirements. But do they preclude authentic assessment? Associate Professor Ben Hayward suggests no: read the full blog post to find out more.
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Compassion in accounting: A path to more sustainable futures?
Lisa Powell integrates ethics, compassion, and environmental awareness into accounting education, promoting an ethical profession and sustainability.
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Develop skills or outsource to generative AI?
Estelle Wallingford considers the challenges of generative artificial intelligence on traditional assessment design and reflects on questions that educators might need to answer to ensure students develop essential skills to make the best use of the technology.