Category: education
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BCM215 Game Media Industries: Discourse, History and Planning the Digital Artifact
In this lecture, I expand on the idea of discourse from the previous video and explore the history of video games in terms of the relationship between analogue and digital games. In the second part of the lecture, I focus on progressing the core learning assessment strategy for this subject and consider ways of planning…
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Artificial Intelligence: Predictions and Revolutions
Really enjoyed putting this video lecture together and finally getting it to YouTube. The focus is two articles by Spyros Makridakis, 22 years apart and his predictions about the future of technology.
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BCM325 Future Cultures: Why Science Fiction?
BCM325 Future Cultures is a third-year subject in the major of Digital and Social Media, which is one of five majors in the Bachelor of Communication and Media. Previously the subject was called ‘Cyberculture’ and had a very techno-social focus, with an emphasis on regulation and policy. My revisions for the subject have responded to…
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taking entrepreneurship seriously
Australia is a stagnant nation, politically, socially, technologically and intellectually and it is really OK to admit this. We have great ideas, great talent, and an amazing environment that our creatives, experts, innovators and risk-takers have to leave in order to be successful more often than they should and more often that is healthy for…
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seeing through Glass
It would take a lot for me to shift from my iPad mini to an Android tablet but Google Glass would do it. I’m scaling up the use of G+ in my teaching this year after a successful trial of the Hangout feature and live online tutorials via my laptop in the tutorial rooms in 2012. I’ve…
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Creative Commons in Higher Education, Research and Teaching
Deakin librarian Amy Sellers interviewing me on the benefits and disadvantages of using creative commons copyright licenses in Higher Education for Teaching and Research.
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one more thing
The final assessment for the first unit of the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education calls for a 500 word post answering the question: What idea(s) explored in the modules have you found most useful and why? The most personally affecting idea explored in this, my first module, has been that of the ‘student’. While some…
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effective assessment in higher education
The sixteen indicators of effective assessment in higher education is a useful checklist (link broken, new source needed!) that provides a timely opportunity to review the changes introduced to the unit I inherited at the start of the current trimester. I reflect here on a several, but not all the indicators and address their concerns…
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online teaching and teaching online (more GCHE posts)
This is an archived version of my online participation in a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, this is from a post on the experience and challenges of ‘online’ teaching. One of the biggest challenges as a tutor and new unit chair at Deakin has been the diverse student population spread across the multiple campuses, or…