DENT90142 Professional Practice 1

I collaborated with the Redesign team Learning Designers, subject coordinators and lecturers to help launch DENT90142 Professional Practice 1 in the Doctor of Dental Science, the first subject of the MDS redesign.

Our work reimagining assessments, activities, and user experience helped to gather valuable feedback for changes in navigation, making it easier for learners and teachers to access specific content.

A huge shout out to Nicole and Leigh for coordinating, developing, and getting the course together in record time!

MDS Redesign Manager
23 July 2024

Great work Leigh on 90142! Looking amazing 👏

MDS Learning Designer
9 August 2024

Canvas content reproduced with permission from Melbourne Dental School

Psychology portfolio

I helped colleagues at OES begin their work on Psychology units in the Monash Online Masters of Methal Health program.

I helped the team interpret the ISAP pedagogy used for on-campus instruction in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and adapt that approach to a system that works within the Monash Online system of onlin study.

DATA

Masters of Mental Health is another course that is now performing well with an average SETU above 4.

The work you have done in PSY has also been instrumental in assisting the team to move forward with the Masters of Mental Health

OES Lead Learning Designer
Performance Review 2023

AI for careers-focused learning

The career's-focused learning team came up with the following implementable innovations from the OES Learning Design department's onsite collaborative event.

• Employability Learning Outcomes.
• Pre-professional identity activities
• AI generative chat-bot interactive learning experiences.

 

Video content and Moodle pages presented with permission from OES.

Watch the following video which showcases the work achieved by the careers focused learning team.

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.

Working with Monash Coursework Template & Moodle 4.1

As part of the Monash Online leadership group, I used my extensive knowledge of Moodle and background in Monash Online pedagogy to develop a response to the challenges of the institutional changes to Moodle.

Along with the upgrade to Moodle 4.1, the university had developed an LMS template that would have proved incompatible with the established pedagogical approach of Monash Online units, so I developed the Working with Monash Coursework Template strategy. 

The strategy document outlines a technical learning design approach that Monash Online and OES could take to preserve our pedagogical integrity while accommodating the imposed changes.

Great work

OES Chief Academic Officer
11 October 2023

Thanks so much Elena and Leigh for all your hard work that made the testing possible and gave us the time estimates. It's hugely appreciated.

OES Lead Learning Designer
24 October 2023

Embedded questions (ITO4001 Foundations of Computing)

In order to enhance student learning experience, I harnessed the Moodle quiz embedding functionality to embed check-your-understanding quiz questions throughout the learning material in Monash Online's ITO4001 Foundations of Computing unit. 

The quiz embedding approach had multiple uses and supported business goals arond pedagogical application of technologies (new and existing) that enhance student experience.

the students enjoyed the unit and they appreciated the examples, exercises, quizzes, etc embedded in the unit, which they found quite effective for their learning.

Monash Associate Professor
October 2023

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

Watch the following video which in which Leigh presents the concept to a Hot-takes session.

Moodle question and reveal interactive

As part of our Heat exchange project, I mentored a team member and collaborated on the development of this interactive.

Conceptualising the format from an existing element in another business partner's LMS, we considered the pedagogical value of this type of student interaction with the learning material. We then developed Moodle-adapted code with the generative AI assistance of Chat GPT to accept user text input and to provide SME feedback. Later, we styled the product to be consistent with Monash Online styling.

Wow! I absolutely love this. What a game changer. It's these sorts of ideas that really enhance the quality of our existing offering and show that we're operating at the cutting edge of the industry. I'm confident that this not only contributes to student success and engagement, but it will strengthen the positive perception of OES by Monash.
Great work Elizabeth Williams and Leigh Canny

OES Learning Designer
19 October 2023

Awesome Elizabeth Williams and Leigh Canny! Would love to use this as it is so much nicer than H5P essay or documentation tool

OES Learning Designer
19 October 2023

The following image captures the Moodle question and reveal interactive as deployed in PSY5020 Family violence practice foundations.

Essay writing interactive (LAW5800 Foundations of law in the digital world)

As part of our Heat exchange project, I mentored a team member and collaborated on the development of this interactive.

The interactive repurposes the familiar tabs HTML structure and adapts it to a more interactive learning model.

Thanks Leigh Canny! The introduction structuring looks great! I think this can work given it's only a formative activity.

OES Learning Designer
04 September 2023

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.

Assessment scaffolding for ITO5205 Data in society

I led the learning design team in converting Monash's capstone ITO5205 from an on-campus delivery to online delivery for Monash Online.

The unit requires students to undertake assessments which are atypical in ITO units so, just as in the on-campus delivery, a lot of scaffolding was required to help students make the academic adjustment.

I developed the Grade Booster structure throughout the unit. Each Assessment Booster was a weekly deep dive into the assessment requirements for that week, giving students guided detail on the week's assessment requirements, including an analysis of the grading criteria.

ITO5205 was a good example of tying authentic assessment to the learning materials and a co-design approach with Monash academics and teaching staff to develop authentic assessment approaches.

it is looking good - many thanks for everyone's hard work.

Monash univeristy - Academic Unit Designer
December 2022

The following image captures the Assessment Booster page dedicated Assessment 2: Privacy impact assessment.

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Another assessment scaffolding structure I developed for this unit was the Research Resource block. Blocks appeared throughout the unit's learning materials. Each block highlighted a resource which students may opt to use for their final Ethical design report assessment

 

Pass-rate data indicated that the scaffolding structures in place in the unit were effective in allowing students to successfully tackle the unfamiliar assessment types.

DATA

Pass rate TP1-23: Pass rate = 100%

Moodle pages presented with permission from OES and Monash Online.

The following image captures the Research Resource block on the 'Scenario 1: The company want my data' page in the Digital Health case study.

Time-machine (LAW5812: The Global Professional)

I used Javascript to develop the time-machine interactives in Moodle. The system was used to store student data and make the data available later in the unit for students to reflect upon.

I'm looking forward to teaching this unit and really appreciate all the work you guys have done in getting it into such great shape with some really great interactive features.

OES Online Unit Coordinator
October 2022

... you have been a part of a great many other design projects this year, including LAW5811 and LAW5812, both of which were well received, and which we have good student and staff feedback on

OES Lead Learning Designer
May 2023

Watch the following video in which Leigh provides a demonstration of the time-machine functionality in Moodle.

I LOVE what you're trying to do with this course and all of the interactive parts of it you have included! It will be really good!

OES Online Unit Coordinator
October 2022

Panopto for ITO5212 Data analytics for semi-structured data

I collaborated with academic unit designer to develop a system of video chaptering to present long lecture content for Monash Online's ITO5212 Data analytics for semi-structured data TP5 2022.

Using my knowledge of Panopto's editing features, it was possible to break down the on-campus lecture material into manageable pieces for students' learning.

In order to reduce the number of short videos for students, I supplied instructions how to navigate around within the longer videos to find the highlighted sections. Rather than present lecture recordings as a whole, I grouped the lecture content around boarder lecture themes within Moodle books, to provide a manageable sections dealing with related concepts.

Instructional lead-in text was added to alert students to the presence of the video table of contents with chapters targeting each lecture topic.

Leigh Canny has already done a pretty great job at including the turotial walkthroughs with chaptering

OES STEM specialist LD
June 2022

The following image captures the interactivity in embedded Panopto content covering singular value decomposition (SVD) techniques in ITO5212 Data analytics for semi-structured data.

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.

Development of an online teaching-focused professional development program for junior teaching staff

I contributed learning design expertise to co-author the Development of an online teaching-focused professional development program for junior teaching staff paper delivered to the 9th Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES 2021) and 32nd Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference (REES AAEE 2021) at The University of Western Australia.

The paper describes our work implementing a new professional development program for junior teaching staff during the 2020 and 2021 pandemic lockdowns and the shift to online teaching. The program aimed to equip them with information on best practice in online teaching as well as with an awareness of the resources available to support them.

The paper was presented under the Capability Development conference theme according to the REES AAEE Conference Program 2021 (Workshop Session 15C: Who (capability development)).

The contribution of our research has also been recognised in other publications:

• The University of Melbourne features Development of an online teaching-focused professional development program for junior teaching staff on its Find an Expert site.
• Find Development of an online teaching-focused professional development program for junior teaching staff at ResearchGate
• Research In Engineering Education Network: Research in Engineering Education Symposium. 9th 2021. (And 32nd Australiasian Association for Engineering Education Conference) (REES AAEE 2021)
• Development of an online teaching-focused professional development program for junior teaching staff on Informit

COS30043 Interface Design and Development

Build achievements

• Designed interactive code-along experiences using CodePen, allowing students can try the code they are learning in video lectures.
• Used CodePen to designed challenge activities for students to test their understanding at the end of each module.
• Implemented gamification elements with unit Badgr badging system in Canvas which rewards students for completing specific coding tasks.

You have made a significant impact, particularly in the BICT units. You led the build on COS30043 which had a 8.60 SFU score and a 93% pass rate. This is the only BICT unit to have such a high score in both areas in it's first iteration online.

OES Lead Learning Designer
2022

Your pedagogical approach to the BICT units has had a huge impact on student and teacher experience, most notably in COS30043.

OES Lead Learning Designer
2022

Visit facsimile COS30043 Interface Design and Development site.

Canvas pages and video content presented with permission from OES and Swinburne Online.

Watch the following video which showcases the work achieved in the COS30043 build.

DATA

COS30043 had a 8.60 SFU score and a 93% pass rate. This is the only BICT unit to have such a high score in both areas in it's first iteration online.

That's fantastic Leigh and Georgie!

Great presentation and an amazing example of working together and bringing in the talent that's needed to work on challenging units such as this.

Good on you guys for having the initiative to seek out the right people and co-create.

OES Learning Design Manager
2022

Remote Learning Student Survey

I developed the FEIT Remote Learning Survey, a diagnostic tool in Canvas to assess students’ satisfaction with the transition to remote learning in 2020.

I wrote descriptive Likert questions to enable students to engage with the survey, and short answer questions to allow students to provide additional feedback.

Questions related not only to teaching adaptations to the turmoil of lockdown learning, but also FEIT's response to learning design challenges, as well as how the switch to remote learning affected the students' own ability to learn effectivelys.

Now, and especially during the shift to online teaching, Leigh has been invaluable and has gone above and beyond to help our academics structure their teaching so that it is engaging and uses all the tools possible ...

Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering (EMI) Executive Assistant
2020

 

The following page from Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering & IT captures the published results of the survey for students in CVEN90043 Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering:

Teaching & Learning Innovations Newsletter

To generate engagement with the Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering and IT Sharepoint site, we generated the monthly Teaching & Learning Innovations email Newsletter.

The newsletter would draw together the published Sharepoint content from the previous month and promote the site to the Engineering and IT faculty academic and professional staff.

The monthly promotion was a great way for remote teaching staff to learn about the innovations that other faculty members were implementing during the transition to online learning in 2020 and 2021.

It is great to see how Leigh and Glen Currie are sharing their findings via the MSE online teaching newsletter.

Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering (EMI) Executive Assistant
2020

Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering & IT

I worked in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team of Engineering academics to develop Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering & IT.

The SharePoint site shares stories of teaching innovations from across Melbourne School of Engineering & IT. The site launched during 2020's COVID19 lock-down and so the focus became sharing innovations in remote and online teaching and learning. Regular focus topics included digital assessment, synchronous and asynchronous learning activities, remote management of groupwork and alternatives to specialist learning activities like laboratory classes.

The site enabled teachers to learn from colleagues successes and encouraged isolated teachers to attempt new innovations in their subjects.

Melbourne University Sharepoint allows external visitors with Microsoft accounts (ie hotmail, outlook, etc)
Teaching & Learning Innovations in Engineering & IT

Thank you for setting up the ground work for a new TLU. The SharePoint site and the materials you continue to churn out, are of excellent standard. Well done

Operations Manager of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering (EMI)
2020

Sharepoint pages reproduced with permission from Melbourne University Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

MCEN30018 Fluid Mechanics - Flipped Approach

I developed an improved student experience for lecture content delivery for Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at MSE in 2020.

Previously students’ access to the online materials was made difficult by non-intuitive LMS organisation. Students are now guided through weekly pre-class modules featuring embedded video content covering theoretical concepts interspersed with check-your-understanding quizzes.

This flipped approach allows teaching staff more time in class to explore practical demonstrations in more depth, providing a richer experience for students.

Fluid Mechanics

Canvas content reproduced with permission from Melbourne University Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

I especially appreciate how helpful Leigh is with queries about Canvas; he always responds quickly and gives clear instructions/offers to help step you through things if you need.

We are very lucky to have had Leigh join us when he did, as he has definitely made the transition to a virtual campus much smoother for our staff (and hopefully also our students as a consequence)

Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering (EMI) Executive Assistant
2020

Canvas for Engineering and IT Learning

I was invited to present training at the Canvas for Engineering and IT Learning workshop series delivered to Engineering academics on the use of the new LMS.

• The first presentation was on the topic of "Canvas tools to make complex concepts easy". My interactive presentation, titled "Is the Traditional Lecture Dead?", used the inbuilt presentation tools in the University's lecture capture platform; Echo360. I showcased the effectiveness of tools such as polls, prediction questions, discussion topics, progress restriction, multimedia, Q&A, and Echo360's powerful analytics tools.
• In a second presentation: "Publishing Videos: Considering the student experience", I illustrated ways in which teachers can position and contextualise their video content for a more engaged student experience.

Canvas content reproduced with permission from Melbourne University Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology