Colin Simpson

ePortfolio grading rubric

assessment, education design, ePortfolio, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Here’s a useful assessment rubric created by the University of Wisconsin – Stout that can be applied to ePortfolios. I would consider adding links within the criteria to exemplars of best practice but I think […]

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Final thoughts on DDLR / DDeLR

assessment, education, education design, learning, reflection by Colin Simpson

It feels like I’ve been banging on about this subject forever now but with assessments now finalised, it seems like a good time for a final wrap up. In broad terms, I was a little […]

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Delivering DDLR & DDeLR: Reflections

edtech, education, education design, teachers, teaching, training by Colin Simpson

Life got quite busy in the last few weeks, so screenface had to go on the back-burner for a little while. I think it’s worth taking a look at what happened with the DDLR & […]

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Designing DDLR & DDeLR – (Over)Structuring activities

edtech, education, education design, reflection, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

I’ve been a bit caught up preparing for this course and consequently this post has been sitting in the draft section for a while now. I ran the first class last Friday (17/10) and it […]

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Designing DDLR – More work on assessment

assessment, edtech, education, education design, elearn, elearning, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Now the focus of this project on Designing the Design & Develop Learning Resources course is on pinning down the assessments. J’s assessments for DDLR 3&4 seem strong but I just want to see whether […]

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Designing DDLR & DDeLR – Assessments

assessment, education, education design, elearning, learning, Practical tips, reflection by Colin Simpson

Today is all about pinning down the most appropriate types of assessments for this subject. Yesterday I think I got a little caught up in reviewing the principles of good assessment – which was valuable […]

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Designing DDLR and DDeLR – a live blog

ed tech, edtech, education, education design, elearning, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

In three weeks time (Friday 17/10) I’ll start teaching the Design and Develop Learning Resources (DDLR) and Design and Develop eLearning Resources (DDeLR) subjects for the Diploma of Vocational Education and Training. (Dip VET) It’s […]

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Gamifying your course – my slides

Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Slides from my presentation at the ANU CAP innovation showcase about using game elements in teaching  

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Tired of students playing on their phones in class?

browser, ed tech, edtech, education, edugames, game based learning, interaction, interactive, mobile, mobile learning, quiz, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Maybe you should get them playing on their phones in class then. I ran a small session this morning with some of our teachers from Accounting and Law about Kahoot – a great free online […]

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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution – Open2Study – a course review

education design, free, mooc by Colin Simpson

On the weekend I wrapped up studying Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, a free 4 week/module online course offered through Open2Study Open2Study is the MOOC* offering of Open Universities Australia, a more conventional provider of free […]

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