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Using interactive role play videos to improve student communication skills
Guided by the theoretical principles driving the curriculum, our producers made a series of short interactive videos depicting vet interactions with clients and animals.
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Open book exams
In Semester 2 2021, Dr Sarah Yang Spencer and Dr Valerie Cotronei-Baird were wanting to improve the quality of the subject final exam for a postgraduate capstone accounting subject.
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Exemplary student ePortfolios
University of Melbourne faculties have been implementing ePortfolios in a range of ways for many years. In 2021, however, the University introduced a dedicated ePortfolio tool known as PebblePad.
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Lab demonstrations that give every student a front row seat
Captured from four camera angles, the demonstrations used Hollywood stunt technology to offer a multidimensional and up-close perspective to students in ways that would not be achievable in the classroom.
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Sharing the reality of healthcare workers fighting COVID-19
Born in collaboration between a healthcare worker and Learning Environments, RMHive is an app designed to support those on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How FFAM used video to transform students’ homes into world class art galleries
Learning Environments worked alongside a team of subject experts to plan and produce a series of four videos utilising object-based learning strategies.
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Creating meaningful connections with struggling students
Through a series of training videos, staff and student leaders are made aware of warning signs of poor mental health and given strategies to support students.
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Voices, community and Indigenous knowledge in online places of learning
The academic team at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, were awarded a FlexAP grant to redesign and redevelop AIND10004 Art and Indigenous Voice with Learning Environments.
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Applying Four-Component Instructional Design (4C/ID) to the Master of Public Health
Learning Environments partnered with the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health to design and develop 4 core subjects in the Master of Public Health for online delivery.
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When contemporary art meets biomedicine fully online and there are no right answers
An online FlexAP subject introducing students to approaches used by a selection of significant Melbourne artists to explore ways of seeing and thinking about biomedical practices and issues.
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Crowdsourcing as a novel approach to teaching and supporting critical appraisal
The CrowdCARE web platform teaches and nurtures appraisal skills that underpin enquiry-based learning and evidence-based practice.
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Student stories help shape new learning and teaching resource
Learning Environments and MDHS researchers have built a new resource to introduce researchers to qualitative research.
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Learning Environments partners with the Noel Shaw Gallery for The Universe Looks Down
Learning Environments had the honour of contributing to the exhibition of a visual response to the iconic long-form poem The Universe Looks Down at the Baillieu's Noel Shaw Gallery.
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Exploring Melbourne’s urban forests with Learning Environments and MSPACE
MSPACE and the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences approached the video team at Learning Environments to help communicate their vision of greener, more resilient cities.
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Learning Environments partners with CAPS on student mental wellbeing
An innovative staff training program created by Learning Environments and Counselling and Psychological Services.
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Turning any water into drinking water - Made Possible By Melbourne
Made for the Made Possible By Melbourne campaign.
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Making any surface solar - Made Possible by Melbourne
Made for the Made Possible By Melbourne campaign.
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M2 venture catalyst
A video produced for the launch of the M2 venture catalyst, BioCurate.
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Learning Environments drone showcase
See what's possible with our expertise in aerial footage using a drone.
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Dookie robotic dairy
An insight into the innovative operations of the robotic dairy at the University’s Dookie Campus, including an interview with the dairy co-ordinator Kenny Oluboyede.
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Melbourne’s urban sprawl
Learning Environments collaborated with the Melbourne School of Design in the development of national Year 9 geography curriculum resources.
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Making musical memories at the Grainger Museum
The Grainger Museum hosted the pilot program Music Making Memories, which focused on well being for people with dementia, and their carers.
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Voices of agriscience
A series of scenario based case studies of ‘voices’ in our agricultural industries.
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Using Poll Everywhere in large lectures
A case study in the use of Poll Everywhere in large lectures.
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50th anniversary Austin Clinical School
Two videos made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Austin Clinical School.
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Burnley Plant Guide
The Burnley Plant Guide is available as an iOS and Android app.
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Field Friend
Field Friend is an iOS app and website developed by Learning Environments and the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences to assist students on ‘self-guided’ small group field excursions.
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Capturing footage with a mobile device
In her How Music Can Change Your Life MOOC Katrina Skewes McFerran wanted to show music therapy in practice in a variety of situations.
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Simulated web conference calls
Paul Kofman and Sean Pinder in their Essentials of Corporate Finance Capstone built on previous authentic learning experiences they had created in the preceding courses by simulating a conference call.
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Web conferencing interviews
Katrina Skewes McFerran wanted to include a number of world experts in the field of music therapy in the videos for her How Music Can Change Your Life MOOC.
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Green/blue screens
A green/blue screen studio or setup can assist in making voice over slides more effective. Adding a presenter gives the learners another focus point than just the material presented on the slides.
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Fable based learning
Fable based learning creates a narrative strand that weaves the learning journey together for the learner.
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Team teaching
Peter Stuckey and Jimmy Lee wanted to create a tutorial like feel for their weekly workshop solution videos.
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On location filming
Jeanette Hoorn’s Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender was the first University of Melbourne MOOC that didn’t rely on the use of PowerPoint slides.
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Dramatised role plays
In their Journalism Skills for Engaged Citizens MOOC, Margaret Simons and Denis Muller wanted to show their learners how journalists work with a confidential informant when researching a story.
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Community Risk Reduction
Community Risk Reduction is a mixture of face-to-face engagement and online technologies.
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Progress Map for Coursera
Progress Map is a tool that extends the University’s MOOCs to provide students with an accurate representation of their current progress.
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