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Role-Based E-Learning For University Students : A Comparison Of Australian, American, British And Singapore Designs, Sandra Wills
Role-Based E-Learning For University Students : A Comparison Of Australian, American, British And Singapore Designs, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
Role play in face-to-face contexts has been shown to be a powerful teaching design at all levels of education. The arrival of e-learning makes it possible to engage with different types of role play, for example inter-national and inter-institutional collaborations, role plays blending online and face-to-face interaction, role plays blending synchronous and asynchronous media including recordings of the sessions, and role play within distance learning contexts. It is now possible to conduct elaborate and responsive role play activities where the identity of the participants is not immediately apparent, where they may use avatars or inhabit 3D virtual worlds as part …
The Simulation Triad, Sandra Wills
The Simulation Triad, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
This chapter contributes to the discussion on how best to theorise relationships among learning preferences, simulations, role plays and games as modes for learning. It describes the development of a framework called the Simulation Triad which is used to better define online role play by positioning it in relation to simulation and games as a teaching method. For designers of online simulations, the Simulation Triad, and the complementary Design Space Framework, will illustrate design choices around problems, rules and roles, clarifying that designs for role-based simulation emphasise interaction between roles to resolve a problem rather than focus on rules that …
A. Enrole, Research, React, Resolve, Reflect: Developing And Using Online Role Play Learning Designs, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
A. Enrole, Research, React, Resolve, Reflect: Developing And Using Online Role Play Learning Designs, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
Sandra Wills
This guide covers adopting, moderating and designing online role-play learning experiences. Case studies of several online role plays are underpinned by a number of linked, guides, templates, and checklists plus video clip testimonials from teachers and students
Eveleigh Railyards: Building Web-Based Databases For The Community And Students, Sandra Wills, Lucy Taksa
Eveleigh Railyards: Building Web-Based Databases For The Community And Students, Sandra Wills, Lucy Taksa
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
Exploring Strategies To Formalise The Description Of Learning Designs?, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho
Exploring Strategies To Formalise The Description Of Learning Designs?, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
First Fleet In The Y2k, Sandra Wills
Flexible Learning At The Crossroads: Are Our Teachers Ready?, Sandra Wills
Flexible Learning At The Crossroads: Are Our Teachers Ready?, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
This paper reflects on managing technological change in teaching and learning, with particular emphasis on staff development. It draws on two national reports in Australia. One report team interviewed senior management in 50% of Australian universities (Wills and Yetton, 1997). The other reviewed 104 nationally funded IT based teaching projects (Alexander et al, 1998). Both make recommendations that have implications for staff development. A number of staff development case studies are described, most practising what they preach by adopting flexible learning techniques in order to teach teachers by example about flexible learning: Project LEAD, Teaching at a Distance, Flexible Delivery …
Gathering The Student's Perception Of Teaching And Learning Environments: A Customisable Email Data Collection Tool, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills, Raymond Stace, Albert Ip
Gathering The Student's Perception Of Teaching And Learning Environments: A Customisable Email Data Collection Tool, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills, Raymond Stace, Albert Ip
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
Description Of First Fleet Online Role Play, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
Description Of First Fleet Online Role Play, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
Elearning For Campus-Based Universities: Engaging The Executive, Rob Ellis, Shirley Alexander, Eddie Gulc, Sandra Wills
Elearning For Campus-Based Universities: Engaging The Executive, Rob Ellis, Shirley Alexander, Eddie Gulc, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
eLearning advocates in campus-based universities in Britain and in Australia are having difficulty helping senior budget holders and strategic planners articulate a vision for eLearning in a campus-based experience. Too often sensible plans for embedding eLearning support and infrastructure in the learning and teaching systems of campus-based universities are put to one side because there is insufficient confidence by the executive of being able to justify why such investment is needed. This can be as simple a problem as being unable to talk about eLearning and its contribution to the whole student learning experience convincingly for non-specialists. Further adding to …
First Fleet: Another Byte Of The Apple, Sandra Wills
First Fleet: Another Byte Of The Apple, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
The paper outlines the 20 year journey of the First Fleet Database as an exemplar of educational software, from mainframe to microcomputer and now to the web. The database of 778 convicts who arrived on the First Fleet to Australia in 1788 has been an electronic educational resource since 1980. It was developed for the Tasmanian Education Department’s statewide timeshare network by the author of this paper. The data was based on the works of Cobley (1970) and Robson (1973). And in doing so it will show a little piece of Apple’s history. It explores changes in the history of …
Subject Online Survey (Sos): An Online Tool To Support Improvement In Teaching And Learning, Robert M. Corderoy, Raymond J. Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
Subject Online Survey (Sos): An Online Tool To Support Improvement In Teaching And Learning, Robert M. Corderoy, Raymond J. Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
Sandra Wills
Traditionally, data relating to the conduct of subjects at the University of Wollongong has been collected for teachers with one main purpose in mind: to provide the teacher with supporting information as to their teaching ability for the purposes of promotion. SOS is a web based system which teachers can use to author customised surveys to collect information about the subject they teach. These surveys are completed anonymously by the students via the web (using randomly generated, survey specific numeric tokens) and the data is automatically collated and returned to the teacher. The teacher may also produce the surveys in …
First Fleet Sails Again, Sandra Wills, Adair Bunnett
First Fleet Sails Again, Sandra Wills, Adair Bunnett
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
Architects Win Awards Not Teachers, Sandra Wills
Sos: Supporting Academics In Improving Their Teaching Through A Customisable Subject Online Survey, Robert Corderoy, Raymond Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
Sos: Supporting Academics In Improving Their Teaching Through A Customisable Subject Online Survey, Robert Corderoy, Raymond Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
The Power Of Three Plus One: Developing An Electronic Readings Service, Sandra Wills, Craig Littler
The Power Of Three Plus One: Developing An Electronic Readings Service, Sandra Wills, Craig Littler
Sandra Wills
The multiple roles and skills required to create online learning environments challenge traditional organisational structures that are currently based on relatively autonomous functional units. At the University of Wollongong, the staged development of an electronic readings service demonstrates the ‘power of 3+1’ through the formation of collaborative partnerships between three principal university support units as per the theme of this conference: * Flexible Learning Centre known at UoW as the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources (CEDIR), * Information Technology Services (ITS) and * Library, plus… one other important unit, our Print and Distribution Centre.
We Go Everywhere Man..., Sandra Wills
Creating A Taxonomy For High Quality Learning Outcomes Using Icts In Higher Education, John Hedberg, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho
Creating A Taxonomy For High Quality Learning Outcomes Using Icts In Higher Education, John Hedberg, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho
Sandra Wills
No abstract provided.
The Red Report, Recognition - Enhancement - Development: The Contribution Of Sessional Teachers To Higher Education, Alisa Percy, Michele Scoufis, Sharron Parry, Allan Goody, Margaret Hicks, Ian Macdonald, Kay Martinez, Nick Szorenyi-Reischl, Yoni Ryan, Sandra Wills, Lynn Sheridan
The Red Report, Recognition - Enhancement - Development: The Contribution Of Sessional Teachers To Higher Education, Alisa Percy, Michele Scoufis, Sharron Parry, Allan Goody, Margaret Hicks, Ian Macdonald, Kay Martinez, Nick Szorenyi-Reischl, Yoni Ryan, Sandra Wills, Lynn Sheridan
Sandra Wills
This large-scale study into the recognition, enhancement and development of sessional teaching in higher education builds on the Australian Universities Teaching Committee Report (2003a) Training, Support and Management of Sessional Teaching Staff. The aim of the current Project was to identify and analyse current national practice and refocus attention on the issues surrounding sessional teachers in the university sector. The Project had three objectives: to establish the extent of the contribution that sessional teachers make to higher education; to identify and analyse good practice examples for dissemination; and to consider the possible developments for institutional and sector-wide improvements to the …
The Red Resource, Recognition - Enhancement - Development: The Contribution Of Sessional Teachers To Higher Education (Complete Report), Alisa Percy, Michele Scoufis, Sharron Parry, Allan Goody, Margaret Hicks, Ian Macdonald, Kay Martinez, Nick Szorenyi-Reischl, Yoni Ryan, Sandra Wills, Lynn Sheridan
The Red Resource, Recognition - Enhancement - Development: The Contribution Of Sessional Teachers To Higher Education (Complete Report), Alisa Percy, Michele Scoufis, Sharron Parry, Allan Goody, Margaret Hicks, Ian Macdonald, Kay Martinez, Nick Szorenyi-Reischl, Yoni Ryan, Sandra Wills, Lynn Sheridan
Sandra Wills
This large-scale study into the recognition, enhancement and development of sessional teaching in higher education builds on the Australian Universities Teaching Committee Report (2003a) Training, Support and Management of Sessional Teaching Staff. The aim of the current Project was to identify and analyse current national practice and refocus attention on the issues surrounding sessional teachers in the university sector. The Project had three objectives: to establish the full extent of the contribution that sessional teachers make to teaching and learning in higher education; to identify and analyse good practice examples for dissemination; and to consider the possible developments for institutional …
An Evolutionary Approach To Strategic Planning For Elearning, Sandra Wills, Kate Bowles
An Evolutionary Approach To Strategic Planning For Elearning, Sandra Wills, Kate Bowles
Sandra Wills
Although all Australian universities have University-level strategic plans as well as Learning and Teaching plans plus underpinning Information Technology plans, it is estimated that only 11% of universities have a separate plan for eLearning. Instead eLearning is often integrated into either an Information Technology Plan or a Learning and Teaching Plan. As a result, the specific needs of eLearning can be overlooked, underestimated or tokenized. The University of Wollongong has undertaken a process of interviews and consultation with committees, deans, managers, academics, students and support staff to develop a coherent strategic and educational vision for the use of eLearning, that …
Learning Design For Online Role Play Versus Simulation, Sandra Wills
Learning Design For Online Role Play Versus Simulation, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
One outcome of Project EnROLE, an ALTC project to encourage uptake of online role play, is a refined learning design for simulation: Simulation Triad. The triad represents design decisions according to emphasis placed on Roles versus Problems versus Rules.
Rethinking Reusability: Implications From A Longitudinal Study Of Online Role Play In Australian Higher Education, Sandra Wills
Rethinking Reusability: Implications From A Longitudinal Study Of Online Role Play In Australian Higher Education, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
In a study about designing “reusable e-learning activities”, the author used online role play as a containable, but pedagogically rich, sample. 53 online role plays in Australian higher education were identified and tracked between 1990 and 2006 (Wills, 2010). As a result of interviews and surveys, it was calculated that 45 role plays were a reuse of another role play, demonstrating that the topic of reusability is an important one in higher education. However, there were only eight instances of reuse of the same role play itself (18%). Predictably these eight instances were a reuse within the same discipline. Meanwhile, …
Changing Horses In Mid-Stream: A New Lms Plus Improved Teaching, Russ Pennell, Sandra Wills
Changing Horses In Mid-Stream: A New Lms Plus Improved Teaching, Russ Pennell, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
The University of Wollongong's recent implementation of a new Learning Management System has been accompanied by a two year process of interviews and consultation with committees, deans, managers, academics, students and support staff. This has resulted in a Strategic Plan for eLearning & eTeaching and an eTeaching Business Plan. These plans for institutional change were based on earlier studies of IT introduction in Higher Education contexts. Project development was overseen by a widely-representative committee, with major effort given to training and support of academics and students. In 2004 over 800 subject websites were in use each year. The new software …
Reusability Of Online Role Play: Learning Objects Or Learning Designs?, Sandra Wills, A. Mcdougall
Reusability Of Online Role Play: Learning Objects Or Learning Designs?, Sandra Wills, A. Mcdougall
Sandra Wills
This study tracks the uptake of online role play in Australia from 1990 to 2006 and the affordances to its uptake. It examines reusability, as one affordance, from the perspective of two often polarized constructs: Learning Object and Learning Design. The study treats “reuse” on two levels: reuse of an existing online role play and reuse of an online role play as the model for another role play. In keeping with terminology that has come into recent use, we propose that the first level implies the online role play is used as a Learning Object and the second level implies …
Strategy And Information Technology, Sandra Wills, P. Yetton
Strategy And Information Technology, Sandra Wills, P. Yetton
Sandra Wills
Our research on twenty Australian universities charts a substantial shift in the importance of IT in teaching and administration, and in how they therefore play the strategy game.
Improving Teaching And Learning Through Formative Evaluation: Using A Customised Online Tool To Collect Student Feedback, Robert M. Corderoy, Ray Stace, Sandra Wills, A. Ip
Improving Teaching And Learning Through Formative Evaluation: Using A Customised Online Tool To Collect Student Feedback, Robert M. Corderoy, Ray Stace, Sandra Wills, A. Ip
Sandra Wills
Good teachers spend time reflecting on their teaching practice. What is working, what isn't - and more importantly, why is or isn’t it? Such reflection is an essential component of maintaining and improving both teaching practice and the learning outcomes for students. Changes in current teaching practice towards more flexible teaching and learning environments and especially towards more student-centred online environments make this an even more important process. To answer this kind of question requires data which reflect the student's viewpoint on the teaching process and the time to collect and analyse it. As the subject itself is more and …
Wireless, Mobile & Handheld: Where Are Our Teachers And Students Going With Their Computers?, Sandra Wills
Wireless, Mobile & Handheld: Where Are Our Teachers And Students Going With Their Computers?, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
There is another revolution in technology happening before our eyes; it's mobile, handheld and wireless - and it's converging. In what ways could this new technology facilitate change in our teaching and learning practices? What planning should we put in place now if we think our universities should be taking advantage of the potential?
Strategic Planning For Blended Elearning, Sandra Wills
Strategic Planning For Blended Elearning, Sandra Wills
Sandra Wills
Although all Australian universities have University strategic plans and IT strategic plans, it is estimated that fewer than 20% have a separate plan for eLearning and eTeaching. The University of Wollongong has recently implemented a new Learner Management System however this technology ramp-up has been accompanied by a two year process of interviews and consultation with committees, deans, managers, academics, students and support staff to: • more clearly articulate from the educational and strategic perspectives why we use eLearning; • understand better how eLearning should be supported in a blended environment; and • inform decision-making about priorities for funding and …
Managing Technological Change And University Teaching, Sandra Wills, S. Alexander
Managing Technological Change And University Teaching, Sandra Wills, S. Alexander
Sandra Wills
Current economic and political climates, together with the need to provide more flexible learning opportunities for students, has resulted in unprecedented pressure on education to use information and communications technologies (CIT) as a way of coping with these pressures, without decreasing the quality of offerings. This chapter reviews the introduction of technology in teaching and learning in higher education from the theoretical perspective of the MIT90s framework developed in Yetton et al (1997), drawing upon case studies of the introduction of technology in teaching and learning in two institutions, and a study of the outcomes of a national initiative to …