I hope you enjoyed interacting with our guest, Trevor Mackenzie, this week. He has given us lots to ruminate on regarding supporting inquiry in teaching and learning design. As a reminder, you can access Trevor’s Website which contains blog posts, resources, and links to all of his social media, such as Twitter,  Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.

MEd Project Examples

As promised earlier in the term, I am happy to provide you a link to a set of MEd projects that were shared as part of our Masters in Educational Technology cohort that completed in 2021. These might provide some inspiration for the larger project you are going to tackle as part of the MEd. These will be online indefinitely so you can review at your leisure.

Note that your supervisors and program advisor may have slightly different criteria for your projects, so treat these as an inspiration and not a template for your own work.

If you have any questions about specific projects, please let me know. Also note, not all MEd projects are required to be shared in this way, and you will not be required to share yours in the UVic repository. We invited our group to share if they wanted to do so, and many took us up on the offer!

Presentations Start Next Week

We have two exciting presentations coming up next week. These include:

  • How to Foster Online Social Connections
  • Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning

Each session will include a 15 minute presentation distilling the issue, topic, or theme in the field of learning design. There will be 10 minutes provided for questions and feedback from the group following each presentation. As a reminder, you are welcome and encouraged to engage the audience with a learning activity during the presentation.

Presenters may assign tasks to be done in advance of their presentation, for example, reviewing a reading or video, contributing to a brainstorming activity, signing up for a technology tool to be used in the presentation, etc. These tasks should be communicated to your peers and provided one week in advance of the presentation date. Mattermost can be used to communicate any prerequisite activities to our group.

A rubric to help you be successful with the presentation is available online.

Sharing Our Teaching and Learning Environments

Sometime over the next few weeks, I would like you to capture your primary teaching and learning environment with a photograph or drawing. Your Spring Break might be a good opportunity to capture a photo, as the rooms will be without students. We will use these to prompt discussion later in the term.

If you teach online only, you can share a little bit about your virtual environment using a screenshot.

I think it will be quite interesting to share our places of learning and consider them from a learning design perspective.

As an example, here is our computer lab at UVic where I regularly teach our Technology and Innovation in Education course to undergraduate teacher candidates. I used a panorama to capture the room in a more fulsome way.

 

If you have questions, reach out to me on Mattermost.

Cover Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pexels