Some authentic assessment activities for technology enhanced learning: Part 1

Professor Michael Sankey This work is an extrapolation of work originally published in: Sankey, M. D. (2022). The state of Australasian online higher education post-pandemic and beyond. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 19(2), 14-26.https://doi.org/10.53761/1.19.2.2 Assessment Tools and tips for use Create an online social media advertisement on the topic you’re learning Most students today […]

The changing face of technology enhanced learning

Professor Michael Sankey. Griffith University This article was first published in the APAC CIOoutlook Magazine in December 2020. Please cite: Sankey. M. (2020). The changing face of technology enhanced learning. APAC CIO Magazine. December. Available from: https://education.apacciooutlook.com/cxoinsights/the-changing-face-of-technology-enhanced-learning-nwid-7862.html The digital ecologies we employ are changing because the way we are teaching is changing. As we have […]

Digital learning down-under

Professor Michael Sankey – Griffith University 1 November 2020 Digital learning has evolved somewhat differently in Australia than it has in many other developed nations, primarily because of the physical distances involved on this sizeable continent. This has led to, on average, Australian institutions being bigger than those in the UK and US, and this […]

Instagram in Plato’s Cave: Part 2

First published in LinkedIn 29 November 2019 If you missed Part 1 please first see: Instagram in Platos’ Despite the confluence of digital medias, image manipulation (though not a new phenomenon), and the ubiquitous availability of representations, the photograph has shown an astonishing resilience to still be seen as evidence. We evidence the fact that we […]

Instagram in Plato’s Cave: Part 1

First published on LinkedIn 30 September 2019 Michael Sankey with the help of Richard Avedon In homage to Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’ some 42 years on As humanity moves from lingering on in Plato’s cave to creating new visions, or representations of so-called truth, by representing ‘the moment’ millions of times an hour, it potentially […]

Putting the pedagogic horse in front of the technology cart

Michael Sankey, Learning Futures, Griffith University This article was originally published in Chinese, as a peer reviewed article in the Journal of Distance Education in China. Citation: Sankey, M. (2020). Putting the pedagogic horse in front of the technology cart. Journal of Distance Education in China. 5, pp .46-53. DOI:10.13541/j.cnki.chinade.2020.05.006 Both the original Chinese version and an English […]

Teaching on-line in the present crisis (COVID-19): What you need to know now

The last thing our teachers and students need right now, particularly those who haven’t been using technology, is to be told to embrace all the new bells and whistles. This article first appeared in Campus Morning mail in two parts on the 15th and 16th of March 2020. See: http://bit.ly/2UiC3Gb Part 1 If institutions are […]

LMS – VLE and/or Productivity Tools

Over the last week I have posted a couple of LinkedIn posts that have generated quite a bit of interest, but because LinkedIn can be a bit of a closed shop, and thanks to a prompt from Stephen Downes I thought I should probably put these thoughts down a bit more formally. Post 1 was […]

The mythical great eel in the sky

When walking in the Mount Coot-thaBotanical Gardens in Brisbane, I just happened to catch a glimpse of the mythical great eel in the sky, emerging from the depths of the clouds. I had long heard of its existence, but never been privileged enough to see it, until this day. I just happened to look down, not realising, at […]

Discovering further horizons

I was recently challenged in my thinking when we had a guest speaker come to USQ who said (words to the effect of), we could talk about the future and plan for the future, but in reality we cannot see more than 2 years ahead with any certainty. I thought, that’s a bit depressing, what about […]