Conversations
Local and global interactions and discussions that have meaning and relevance to individual learners and learning communities.
Online global collaborative learning: Open mind, open practice
OEGlobal Conference, Brisbane November 2024 This event was an opportunity for me to further extend understanding and purpose behind the Global Collaborator Mindset, with a focus on the attribute...
CASE STUDY: Providing Quality Online Learning at the University of Southern Queensland
It's not everyday you are invited to present to the Chinese Government on quality assurance of online education. This came about through a virtual introduction from Professor Ren Yi, PVC...
Times Higher Education Campus Webinar: Can universities keep pace with digital transformation?
In this webinar I joined two other Australian digital education experts as we unpacked digital transformation in an attempt explain where universities stand to benefit most from digitally...
Virtual presentation to South Korea – Future-Ready Learning – Empowering Students through Global Connections and Innovative Technology
In October 2024 I was contacted by the Sejong City Office of Education, South Korea. Communication was through my GMail, not my university email, which made me think they had looked at my...
Beyond Borders: how to make online global collaborative learning work
I was recently contacted by Times Higher Education to write a piece about global collaboration in higher education. Although a different context to K-12, where most of my experience and research...
Virtual presentation to Germany – “Flexibly Glocalizing Higher Education: Enabling Student Choice through Online Global Collaborative Learning”
While I was in Germany, June 2024, visiting JLU Giessen as an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility recipient I was invited to present a workshop as part of the QuiS-Flex-Meta project. I did this virtually...
Reimagining learning in an AI empowered world
This presentation shares insights and examples with a focus on personalising the student experience, capacity building, and assessment imperatives. Julie shares ideas, meanderings and provocations based on research, exploration and simply talking to others around the world.
Explore, Engage, Empower – EdTech Workshop Review
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.
Sharing a PhD research outcome
The Global Collaborator Mindset One of the outcomes from my PhD research is the development of what I call the 'Global Collaborator Mindset'. Educators who adopt this mindset are more able and...
Become a digital online learner
With my Open Pathways Design Leader and Online Facilitator hat on I want to share information about the online course I co-designed and created in 2018. This has been prepared for Open Education...
What is open?
The u!magine Professional Learning Series on Open Education kicked off in August with the first session asking 'What is open?' Along with colleagues Val Peachey, Leanne White we discussed...
T21C Conference – Getting started with online collaborative learning
Just a quick post to share my presentation/workshop at the T21C event this week. A small local conference at Hillcrest Christian College on the Gold Coast. What a lovely school! We were in...
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...
Nostalgia will NOT get my PhD finished…..but it is a nice diversion
Life is work, work is life....or should it be 'life is a beach'? I just don't know anymore....most days here at our beach home are the same right now. I am not working in a full time position,...
‘Windows to the World’ (penpal) global project
Remember the excitement around having a penpal? I remember almost 50 years ago having a penpal in Germany - and how strange life sounded in that country! His name was 'Axel' and his letters...