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She/her/Jo; both types of Dr. Senior Research Fellow @CRADLEdeakin. Opinions my own &c. @twelveeyes@aus.social on 🐘 & @DrJoT on 💙
Jul 18, 2023 63 tweets 10 min read
And we're off! @margaret_bea welcomes us. Today's #ChatGPTHigherEd webinar (the final by @TEQSAGov and @CRADLEdeakin ) is what researchers need to know.

An acknowledgement of Country - education has taken place here for thousands of years, precedes us & will continue Address by Peter Coaldrake, TEQSA commissioner. Thanks to the many people involved in the series including the panellists, the CRADLE team, the TEQSA higher ed integrity team led by Helen Gniel, and everyone who has been attending for their interest on #ChatGPTHigherEd
Jul 7, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Now watching more Deakin colleagues Kat Kain & Naomi Nirupa David talk about not just about access to learning environments but how students develop knowledge once they're in the door - "Peopling the technology: Designing for successful student transition"

#UniSTARS They outline complexity of Deakin context of students learning in different modes, and diverse learning configurations. They're taking care to emphasise this is not a deficit approach, instead recognising competing demands on student time/energy means variety of learning options
Jul 7, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Slipped into @pranit_a's presentation a couple of minutes late, oops. He's talking about students who choose not to attend f2f or a range of reasons - which could include physical or learning disability, [mental] health conditions.

#UniSTARS @pranit_a But, the online/distance ed experience can be 2nd rate due to lack of social connections, access to internet and equipment, familiarity with technology.

Soooo how can create environments to facilitate groupwork?
Jul 7, 2021 35 tweets 10 min read
Back for day 3 of #UniSTARS. Opening by @rachaelfield68 & @kjnnelson! Rachael acknowledges that conference funding is scarce and informs us that STARS is a not-for-profit conference where fees go towards the organisation of the best experience possible, and to support the journal Now @KiftSally online to introduce our next keynote speaker, Mark Brown @mbrownz. She acknowledges Country. Mark has many leadership roles in digital and distance learning and while he calls Ireland home now it seems he hails from NZ!

My gosh it's 2am over there...

#UniSTARS
Jul 6, 2021 31 tweets 10 min read
Time for the first keynote. @rg_jones from Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, University of Auckland.

He will be talking about "Moving backwards into the future: Indigenising the health professional curriculum"

#ANZAHPEFestival @rg_jones He starts by asking us to think about designing health professional education - if we build things off what we have done previously, we might miss some of the biggest concerns of the present time - climate change and impact of biodiversity

#ANZAHPEFestival
Jul 5, 2021 12 tweets 4 min read
Hurrah, watching @NLCrawfordTas's presentation at #UniSTARS on her NCSEHE equity fellowship on mental wellbeing. It feels like it's real time but I know it's a recording. Pretty cool experience overall. Nicole starts off by defining a model of mental wellbeing based on WHO's definition and a self-determination approach which sees it as a complex interaction.

She says that 47.7% of students in her survey considered withdrawing or deferring their studies.
Jul 4, 2021 43 tweets 7 min read
Logged into the #uniSTARS platform and ready to go for the first keynote! Pretending this is a breakfast session 😂 ☕️😴 So, livetweeting may be a bit disrupted as I start my day.... lovely welcome by @kjnnelson & team including reminding us all it is NAIDOC week (the theme is healing country) and acknowledging the traditional custodians of the lands from which we join.
May 27, 2021 40 tweets 16 min read
Time to switch back to regular programming - this morning I will be live-tweeting #CMMNeededNow session, now opening by @KiftSally, on Student Mental Health & Wellbeing. Hearing from @ian_hickie, @venessb, Chi Baik, @NLCrawfordTas & @rachaelfield68.

#CMMNeededNow
May 25, 2021 27 tweets 12 min read
After 10 minutes of fiddling with the room controls finally set up with a big screen version of #CMMNeededNow on Learning Rights. @VerityFirth opened setting the funding scene and what's NQR about how the $$ is spread across the sector currently. Problems include overall funding level, and who gets the funding for equity. Braden Hill says morning teas ain't going to cut it anymore to achieve equity. #CMMNeededNow
Aug 4, 2020 46 tweets 7 min read
I'm attending a session on teaching and curriculum design to support mental wellbeing at Deakin. There are over 80 people also in the session. It's great to see so many people interested in this. 1 in 4 students will experience a mental health condition in any given year. But this can even be higher in certain subgroups of higher education students. So it's really common. There are a wide variety of conditions - mild, moderate, severe.
Nov 7, 2019 14 tweets 7 min read
We are exploring evidence synthesis this morning and questioning their assumptions, led by @margaret_bea in her @DeakinREDI #CARSymposium keynote @margaret_bea @DeakinREDI There are many types of reviews - systematic, meta-analysis, scoping, integrative, realist synthesis, meta-ethnography, meta-narrative review... #CARSymposium