It is important to not treat the two different groups of participants separately when teaching in hybrid. All had access to the chat facility (backchannel opportunity) for comments and conversation. At first we had the online and on campus at separate tables in Engageli – however as the workshop progressed we mixed up the modes and full interactive and collaborative learning took place.
IUT Conference 2018 – Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design
Last week I attended the 43rd Improving University Teaching Conference held on the Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie campus. As an international conference it attracted representatives from Australia, Scotland, China, South Africa, USA, Canada, Fiji and...
Building an online school community using WeChat
This is the first post shared on the Flat Connections blog from the Connect with China trip to China in April 2016. The China trip of Katie Grubb and Julie Lindsay took them to Beijing BISS International School, a small IB world school located on the 3rd ring road in...
Ban Technology? No, let’s ban outdated learning and teaching instead!
This post is in response to an article in the Australian written by Natasha Bita and published March 26, 2016: 'Computers in class 'a scandalous waste': Sydney Grammar head' Brought to my attention via Twitter by the organisers of Education Nation (a conference being...