15 October – 17 October 2014
Academic staff in Higher Education need to transform their teaching practices to support more future-oriented, digital, student-centered learning. Promoting, enabling and implementing these changes urgently requires acceptable, meaningful and effective staff development for academics. We identify four key areas that are presenting as barriers to the implementation of successful staff development. We illuminate the Carpe Diem learning design workshop process and illustrate its impact on academic staff as a viable, constructive alternative to traditional staff development processes. The Carpe Diem model directly exposes and addresses the irony that educational institutions expect their academic staff to learn to design and deliver personalized, mobile and technology-enhanced learning to students, whilst wedded to ‘one size fits all’ face-to-face interventions…or worse, ‘page turning’ e-learning that masquerades as staff development. To avoid further frustrations and expensive, inappropriate initiatives, the spirit and practice of Carpe Diem could act as a ‘pathfinder beacon’, and be more widely adopted to enable fast, effective and fully embedded, learner-ready, future-proofed learning.
Professor Gilly Salmon has been a digital learning innovator for more than 20 years . She was the founding director of All Things In Moderation, in 2001.She was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor of Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and is soon to settle into a new position at the University of Western Australia. Professor Salmon is well-known in the learning design community, particularly for her Carpe Diem learning design method. She holds a PhD from Open University, United Kingdom and an M.Phil. from Cranefield University, United Kingdom. |
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Is the workshop going to take place online?
Hi Angie, This is most definitely an online activity including two live online meetings and asynchronous online discussion.
What times will this run on those days? I would very much love to attend this but have a workshop on those 3 days from 9am – 4pm. thanks.
Hi Ikechukwu, most of the interaction during the seminar will be asynchronous so you can participate flexibly. We will soon post the time of the live online meeting which will be recorded for participants who can’t make it.
Hi Ikechukwu, perhaps you can begin to participate by joining the discussions already going on in the Forum. There are resources already available for download on the topic.
Thanks.
Thanks Tony. Am viewing the recording now.
I will be expecting the schedule for the seminar presentations. I found the last online conference very educating and enriching and i am looking forward to more rewarding online activities this time. Thank you