Conversations
Conversations is a blog about new ideas, innovations, implementations and design of learning journeys.
Conversations is where we share digital first approaches, multimodal artefacts and reflections around the theme of educational technologies for learning and teaching.
We invite you to read, listen, and comment. Share Conversations with others or offer to write a post from your experience and research.
You are invited! JLU-Giessen-USQ International Collaborative Workshops
Many years ago, as a student of history, I read, analysed and critiqued Blainey’s The Tyranny of Distance detailing how Australia’s future was shaped by geographical remoteness.
An Interesting Read: Exploring Ungratefulness Towards Technology
In December 2021, Naval Garg and Sarika Kumari published a paper entitled Dear Technology, You are not Welcome: Exploring Ungratefulness Towards Technology. Its title resonates on many levels.
How to Engage with Technology Demonstrators in 2022
Let your imagination and sense of adventure take flight. 2022 could be the year that you start/continue digital learning initiatives and innovate your teaching and learning at USQ.
Student Success Advising – Exploring Student Engagement
The USQ Academic Plan for 2019-2022 includes Student Success Advising, which it articulates as a …
Unpacking the Online Engagement Framework – Dr Alice Brown
Conversations: Student Engagement SIG “Student engagement is understood to be an important...
Student online portfolios to support reflective learning and employability
An important focus of the student online portfolio initiatives at USQ is student employability through sharing evidence of growth and reflective learning.
TechDems21: The Year in Review
Technology Demonstrators is a program designed to assist you with the use of new and existing technologies to support learning and teaching at USQ. We have four key pillars: Tools, Pedagogies, Evaluation and Research.
Introducing the Student Engagement SIG
Conversations: Student Engagement SIGEver wondered if there’s a link between student engagement...
Getting started with reflective learning and portfolios
Reflection is a helpful strategy in development as practitioners and especially with regard to reasoning processes. It involves describing, analysing and evaluating our thoughts, assumptions, beliefs, and actions …