Educational Design Portfolio

By establishing the trust and support of the Monash Online Academic Unit Designers and the Online Unit Coordinator, I was able to implement my innovative refresh for the design and navigational architecture of each of the units in the Monash Online Grad Cert in Educational Design.

Demonstrated excellent stakeholder management in EDF.

OES Lead Learning Designer
February 2023

DATA

A 6% increased pass rate for the Grad Cert in Educational Design (91% - 97%) was recorded in the subsequent teaching periods.

EDF5770 Designing for interaction and collaboration

I developed a system of interchangeable modular topic content intended to be included next to other relevant learning material.

The modular insertion used Moodle's quiz embedding functionality. I employed a JavaScript linked external CSS file to replace the default Moodle quiz style with the EDF signature graphical style.

Additionally, each modular is interactive, offering students an explanatory 'What is this?' pop-out to explain how the modular content should be viewed and also the opportunity to explore examples in the 'Digital platforms the could be used' accordions.

@Leigh Canny. Pod QA complete. A great interesting unit about my favourite topic - interactivity :). Loved the java too! Comments are in the rubric as usual. Thank you!

OES Senior Learning Designer
6 October 2023

Select each of the following images which capture a sample of the interchangeable modular content topics.

Personalised learning: Authentic and immersive learning experiences with Moodle​

The following topics were covered in my presentation on personalised learning: Authentic and immersove learning design for OES Learning Design department's global offsite collaborative event (Gatherfest 23).

• Addressing the student.
• Engaging critical thinking
• Gamified achievement.

Morning Leigh! Great work on the poster and workshop last night Leigh...

OES Lead Learning Designer
15 November 2023

Video content and Moodle pages presented with permission from OES.

Watch the following Miro talktrack video which previews the presentation topics ahead of the Gatherfest 23 event.

EDF6579 Designing for interaction and collaboration

In this mobile-responsive design, wider screens see the horizontal configuration, while narrower screens see the vertical configuration. For EDF6579, I have made a slight tweak to the design for these boxes, so that all the numbered boxes work consistently throughout the unit. In a future EDF5768 build, we will be able to use this updated responsive design to ensure consistency between the units

cool! what a neat idea. Thank you.

Monash Academic Unit Designer
17 Aug 2023

EDF5768 Educational design

I developed a dynamic system of for presenting unit readings. The unit required reading lists to appear multiple places throught the unit, so rather than develop the material multiple times, I used Moodle's quiz embedding funtionality to write the content once and recycle it to wherever it was needed.

Previous student satisfaction evidence showed that students had found the navigation and learning experience particularly difficult to negotiate.

Congratulations to Leigh and Richard for doing an awesome job. I am really digging this. A million times improved.

Monash Academic Unit Designer
14 June 2023

Thanks so much for building a delightful new navigation and getting so many changes in for us! It's looking great.

Monash Online - Online Unit Coordinator
June 13, 2023

I can’t claim any of the credit, it’s all Leigh’s work with you both, Kristen and Michael. All I did was nod and listen while Leigh told me how he’d bring your vision to life.

OES Lead Learning Designer
June 13, 2023

Module 1 essential readings appearing in the Essential readings module

The same reading list appearing in a Module 1 Flexible learning activity

EDF5772 Innovations in technologies and pedagogical practices

I used my expert HTML and CSS skills to redesign the graphic elements for Monash Online's EDF5772 Innovations in technologies and pedagogical practices for TP5 2022.

I adapted existing elements and emulated the established graphical design style reflecting the theme of the unit's content on gamification in online learning.

The following images capture my styling of standard Monash Online module overview and module review elements into a theme consistent with the graphic design elements.

The following image captures my styling of the Poll Everywhere interactive elements which I introduced into the unit in the TP-22 redesign.

This is looking magnificent! The content tweaks we discussed have been remade into fantastic, interactive, self-guided activities. I particularly like the embedded PollEv feedback tools. A great idea.
I am very happy with all of this. The changes to badges and the personalised journey map on each module will be a great way to engage learners too.
Thanks for all your work on this - I think it will be a very successful unit.

Monash University Course Leader, Master of Teaching
8 August 2022

Moodle pages and video content presented with permission from OES and Monash Online.

EDF5772 Innovations in technologies and pedagogical practice (TP5-22)

Build achievements

• Revised gamified pedagogy reflecting gamification learning content.
• Unit badging using Moodle activity completion mechanic to reward student completion of tasks.
• Personalisation of student's own learning experience.

A former student of the unit, had the following reaction upon reviewing the improved gamification functionality:

Leigh, the unit looks incredible - and the functionality has been improved tenfold

OES Senior Learning Designer
August 2022

I've had a pretty thorough look through this unit and I'm really excited about what's been done with it! ... It's looking really schmick!

Monash Online - Online Unit Coordinator
August 2022

Watch the following video which showcases the work achieved in the EDF5772 build.

Congrats again - really pushing the system. This is what I had hoped we could in a partnership with OES back three years ago when the partnership was just an idea.

Monash Academic Unit Designer
August 2022

DATA

• Student TP5-22 feedback: +0.3 (3.45 - 3.75)
• Retention to census TP5-22: +2.8% (95.7% to 98.8%)

Moodle pages and video content presented with permission from OES and Monash Online.