QUT Learning Design

Some of these books are available via the QUT Library (both carbon-based & online). Ideas have applications to L&T as well as team meetings/interactions.

An easy to read article about motivating learners and getting their attention: page 3 of 5 is the practical stuff.

How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are between 3,000-8,000 words long? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group |and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog |seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter.

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Emerging Practice in a Digital Age draws on recent JISC reports and case studies and looks at how colleges and universities are continuing to embrace innovation and respond to changes in economic, social and technological circumstances in a fastchanging world. The focus of this guide is on emerging practice rather than emerging technology.

A swag of sensible tips on creating interesting presentations with PowerPoint. Primarily created for business but includes educational content.

Discusses 'learning measurement'. It includes a Course Review Template aimed at measuring how performance focussed the course is. Also, his link to a previous article (The Five failures) is worth a read.

studies of alternative means of assessment for large classes in engineering

A good theoretical background to evaluation, with lit reviews.

Use this form, or your modification of it, to evaluate your e-learning course. Such an evaluation could be completed by all learners on completion of the course, or by a representative selection of learners. You can download this form as an RTF file.

Some survey questions we could consider using