15 October – 17 October 2014

We are continuing our short seminar with Professor Gilly Salmon, which started 15 October and runs until 17 October. During these three days Professor Salmon will take us through the Carpe Diem model for course creation. To be a part of this, please start by accessing the seminar landing page to view the resources made available. Then please take part in the conversation in the seminar discussion forum; to add your thoughts, questions and comments please sign in to our live site first. If you are not registered yet, this can be done by choosing Register at the top of the page. During the seminar we will be providing regular e-mail summaries and other useful information. If you have already signed up using the form below we already have your e-mail address, if not we invite you to do this as soon as possible. We are looking forward to your engagement!

A big thank you to those of you, who were able to join us Friday 17 October for the one hour live session with Professor Gilly Salmon. In case you missed this session the recording is now available here.

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 has recently taken up a new appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation) 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.