EdTool Tips #10: Canvas inaugURL Short Guide to Linking Content
One of the best improvements in building content in Canvas, as compared to Blackboard, is the ability to quickly and easily link to other…
Quiet tools for transformation
In terms of new technologies, the arrival of a new enterprise system is not typically of the kind that gets our cheeks flushed and…
How2MCQ – Tips for efficiently writing meaningful automarkable questions
Commonly held beliefs about multiple choice questions and other question types that can be marked by a computer are that they can only really…
Upcoming seminars on Indigenous, Maori and Pasifika students’ experiences of higher education
There are two Widening Participation Network seminars coming up on 12 and 13 October 2017. Indigenous students’ experiences of higher education: rippling stories of…
Enhancing your Canvas designs: Using flexboxes, pad boxes and Feedwind to enhance your Canvas sites
Over the past few months, I have used the University’s new learning management system, Canvas, to build several sites. These include an OLE, a…
Coming Soon: An Institution-Wide Curriculum Mapping System and Unit Outline Template
For the first time, the University will have an enterprise curriculum mapping software system across the institution, along with a new unit of study…
Surviving EdTech’s spin cycle without losing your mind.
From the early mechanical teaching machines of Sidney Pressey (1926) and B. F. Skinner (1953) through to the current spate of apps, games, VR…
2017 Grants
The 2017 FEIT Education Innovation Grants are a FEIT EIU scheme to fund educational innovation, and educational quality improvement proposals for units of study,…
The dos and don’ts in online posting spaces
We often assume our students are “digital natives” and are familiar with the social conventions of online discussion – but this is not necessarily…
The Lesson as a Work of Art
The German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) said of the work of art, that it is a “setting-forth of earth” and the “setting-up of a…