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Adolescent Health
Department: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Name: Sara Glover
The Graduate Diploma/Certificate in Adolescent Health and Welfare is facilitated by the Centre for Adolescent Health and offered through the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. The Professional Practice subject examines the assumptions, values, experiences, skills, knowledge and contexts that currently inform professional practice in working with young people. Using critical incidents and case studies as a starting point, students explore some of the key frameworks and interventions for working with young people to improve health outcomes.
All of the online learning activities are explicitly linked to completion of the Learning and Assessment Task requirements. Students initially discuss the current topic, then submit a draft paper relevant to the topic, then review each other's papers within a group before making their own final submissions online.
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Allied Health Online
Department: Arts
Name:
Allied Health Online is a simulated human service agency where allied health professionals such as physiotherapists or social workers, participate as discipline based case workers to access information and interact with authentic scenarios.
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Anatomedia
Department: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Name: Norm Eizenberg
The An@tomedia ™ CD-ROM was developed by CDS in conjunction with the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. It is a comprehensive self-paced learning program that explores anatomy from four different perspectives. It teaches students how the body is constructed from regions and systems, and how it can be deconstructed with dissection and imaging techniques.
Awards:
• Best CD-ROM Project - Ascilite 1999
• Best CD-ROM Project - Australasian Society for Computers 2000
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Animal Nutrition
Department: Land and Food Resources
Name: Adrian Egan
The Animal Nutrition website was developed by CDS in conjunction with Prof. Adrian Egan of the Department of Animal Production at the Institute of Land and Food Resources. A problem-based learning approach is combined with online tutorials that results in improved real-world, problem-solving skills. Students solve a graded set of nutritional problems associated with a general animal. They then undertake problems concerned with specific species of animals such as cows, chickens, pigs, etc. Tutors can monitor the students' progress and give them feedback online. The work and feedback are stored by the system.
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ARCH: The Architectural History Websourse
Department: Architecture, Building and Planning
Name: Julie Willis
The Beaux-Arts Concours is an interactive self-guided tutorial on architectural composition delivered on the web, and developed by CDS in collaboration with Dr Julie Willis from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. The tutorial is based on a nineteenth century French School of Architecture. Students are required to construct and submit an electronic design of a building using the appropriate architectural vocabulary. Upon submitting their work, students must change roles from being a nineteenth century student, to being a member of the jury. They then vote for the best submissions within their group. The system collates the results and displays the winners. Tutors can view the submissions of students within a group and disqualify inappropriate submissions.
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ArtsSmart
Department: Arts
Name: Melanie Lazarow
This Arts Faculty information literacy and transition program for first year students will be implemented in semester one 2005.
The Generic Information Literacy Skills in Arts, an Arts IT MM faculty funded project aims to create two products supporting students and academics in the Arts faculty:
1.A generic information literacy skills course for first year arts students, based on previously successful practice including the Researching History project. The course would consist of a variety text based information, video, audio and interactive multimedia learning objects to develop the necessary information literacy skills for students to succeed.
Modules covered:
1. Preparing for a tutorial (reading list)
2. Finding Research materials of an essay
3. Citing correctly
4. Plagiarism/Academic Honesty
2. Content authoring system to enable academics to customise the exemplar course to suit subject specific subject needs or different contexts.
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Aural Studies
Department: Music
Name: Bruce Barber
This project was developed by CDS with Bruce Barber from the Faculty of Music to provide a unified study resource for students undertaking Aural Studies. Students develop skills in aural recognition of musical elements and the use of appropriate symbols and vocabulary to represent them by undertaking self-testing exercises in musicianship with audio support. Activities include interval, melody and chord recognition exercises with system feedback, and rhythm transcription, audiation and aural analysis exercises with tutor feedback.
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Australian Art of the 1990s
Department: Ian Potter Museum of Art
Name: Charles Green
The Vizard Foundation has supported activities in the visual arts since the early 1990s. This support has spanned a surprising range of areas: an award for promising photography students, a collection of antiquities, another of colonial silver, and the funding of teaching positions in contemporary art at the University of Melbourne. The most substantial of these activities has been the formation of the Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990's.
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Australian Film Online
Department: Arts
Name:
In Australian Film Online, students undertake a series of learning tasks involving key segments in set Australian films. They explore topics such as: the history of the film; the film’s use of visual language, including composition, lighting and acting; the deployment of narrative; the construction of point of view; and social issues arising from the film. The system provides opportunities for feedback and creates a learning environment which gives the kind of support not possible in a conventional tutorial. Australian Film Online is the result of a collaborative effort between CDS and Assoc. Prof. Barbara Creed and Dr Jeanette Hoorn of the Department of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology.
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Avian Health 2
Department: Veterinary Sciences
Name: Trevor Bagust
Avian Health Unit 2 is designed to give Students a good knowledge of the normal avian anatomical and functional features, particularly in reference to avian immunity, together with a sound appreciation of the pathology of each of the major disease (infectious and non-infectious) conditions of poultry. The course comprises a modular learning design including lecture notes, case studies, exercises, monthly assessment tasks and a final written exam. A key element of the course is the Avian Pathology Manual a searchable database of avian diseases illustrated with digital images.
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Bridges To China CD-rom
Department: Arts
Name: Jane Orton
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BUILT
Department: Education
Name: Mr Keith Pigdon
The Building Understandings of Literacy and Teaching (BUILT) CD-ROM was produced by Keith Pigdon from the Faculty of Education and CDS. Students work interactively with examples of language and literacy use in teaching, within a strongly theorised framework, thus consolidating and demonstrating their learning. BUILT makes extensive use of high quality QuickTime Video clips of exemplary classroom interactions and uses QTVR to capture various classroom contexts.
Awards:
• Special Commendation (for use of video) - Ascilite 2000
• Highly Commended - Australasian Society for Computers 2001
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Careful How You Hold Me
Department: Veterinary Sciences
Name: Lyndal Scott
A multi media program for investigators, honours and postgraduate students, animal technicians and others new to the field of laboratory animal science and animal welfare - a resource for collective use or self paced learning.
This CD Rom Training Program has primarily been developed for new investigators and technical staff commencing work with animals (mice, rats, guinea-pigs, and rabbits) in bio-medical research. It would also be of value to veterinarians moving into the field of Laboratory Animal Science and Animal Welfare, and members serving on Animal Ethics Committees wishing to learn more about standards of practice in this important discipline.
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Common law
Department: Law
Name: Cheryl Saunders
The “Introduction to the Common Law” multimedia project will provide students with a database-driven online resource that will develop robust knowledge and familiarity with common law concepts and facilitate those legal reasoning skills peculiar to a common law framework. An appreciation of the common law is emerging as a strategically important skill for international students from civil law backgrounds who may need to operate in the international arena. The Faculty of Law has identified this market segment as one of particular importance to its Graduate program where it is developing a suite of common law subjects.
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Coping Skills
Department: Education
Name: Erica Frydenberg
Coping skills is an interactive program designed to support adolescents in developing successful strategies for surviving in everyday life through case studies, examples, action plan and reflection activities.
There are two elements to the project. The two elements are:
(1). A learning guide website that will present theory, concepts and language of coping, and provides active ways for postgraduate students to learn "coping skills" in the context of their own studies within certain subjects; and
(2). A "coping skills" program (CD-ROM) designed for use in the teaching of coping skills to adolescents.
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COTN conservation online training network
Department: Ian Potter Museum of Art
Name: Marcelle Scott
The course content is directed towards people who are caring and responsible for heritage collections. We hope it is useful and relevant to those working in community museums, historical societies, and with public and private collections.
Many of the exercises and recommended tasks throughout the program require you to have access to a collection or to an item that is significant to you or your community.
There are four key topics covered in the course, intended to provide you with information about the main causes of damage to heritage collections, and practical measures you can employ to reduce the impact of these on your collections. The topics can be easily read independently of each other and do not necessarily need to be taken in any particular order. However, aspects of The Environment: Lighting, Temperature and Relative Humidity are relevant to issues discussed in Care: Handling, Storage and Display and Bugs: Pest Management.
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Cultural Diversity and Early Childhood Learning Environments
Department: Education
Name: Glenda Macnaughton
The Cultural Diversity project is an online resource designed to enhance teaching and learning in the Early Childhood Studies Bachelor Of Early Education BECS (International), BECS (Pathways) and BECE practicum subjects. Cultural Diversity incorporates a suite of tools consisting of a “project bank” (a media database where students can create and search project records), other resources include; video, qtvr, interactive animations, quizzes and a series of case studies designed to support best practice for teaching and learning in Early Childhood Studies.
Awards:
Award for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs.
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Curatorial Careers
Department: Fine Arts, Classical Studies & Archaeology
Name: Gary Hickey
Curatorial Careers & Exhibition Development is an authentic, web-based learning environment for students enrolled in Asian Art Curatorship and Art Museums and Curatorship: Issues and Practice B. It allows students to learn the concepts and skills of museum curatorship within the context of the day-to-day work of a curatorial team focusing particularly on exhibition management and professional development.
The system allows students to study high-quality reproductions in an online catalogue of works. A key feature of Curatorial Careers is the Virtual Exhibition Module where students design and develop an exhibition including exhibition layout, didactic panel(s), labels, frames and plinths.
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Early Learning Centre
Department: Education
Name: Jan Deans
The philosophy of The Early Learning Centre is based on an image of the child as creative, sensitive, capable, inquisitive and receptive. To realise the potential of all children the Early Learning Centre provides a nurturing, secure, stimulating and innovative learning environment; one which promotes happiness and a desire to learn. The primary aim is for children to become self- motivated and independent learners who are sensitive to the needs and views of others.
The Early Learning Centre CD-ROM demonstrates teaching techniques within the centre's learning environment. The website provides the background context coupled with the centre's philosophies regarding early childhood education.
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Evaluation Practice
Department: Education
Name: Pamela St Leger
The project is to develop a CD ROM and Web based CAL (computer assisted learning) module that presents video footage of ‘Negotiating and Planning an Evaluation Plan with a Client’, a key learning area for all post graduate subjects courses offered by the Centre for Program Evaluation (CPE)
The proposed learning resource will allow postgraduate students to interact with video scenarios demonstrating effective negotiating and planning practices through a combination of text, classroom, CD ROM and web based activities.
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Evidence Briefcase
Department: Law
Name: Andrew Kenyon
This web-based environment was developed by CDS and Dr Andrew Kenyon from the Faculty of Law to assist in learning about, and assessing, the treatment of facts by the Law of Evidence. The project simulates realistic problems in an environment that allows students to analyse a large amount of potential evidence in a legal case, make and store their own notes about the potential evidence, and communicate with each
other and teachers. Students submit an Advice on Evidence, as an item of formative assessment for the subject.
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Exceptional Learning
Department: Education
Name: John Munro
The project relates to enhancement of learning opportunities in a set of
subjects that are intended to equip teachers with the knowledge necessary for
optimising exceptional learning in the areas of learning difficulty and
giftedness. It intends to do this by providing students of these courses with
(1) scenarios of authentic exceptional learning and related teaching
procedures "in situ" involving both individual students and groups that they
can use in a number of ways, (2) discussion board facilities by which they can
engage in collaborative learning, (3) opportunity to engage in problem- and
solution based learning, and (4) the combined knowledge of peers re effective
diagnostic and teaching practice.
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Globalisation and the World Economy ( U21)
Department: Economics and Commerce
Name:
This subject is part of the Universitas 21 Certificate in Global Issues. It is delivered through the LMS using audio/powerpoint lectures, quizzes, short answer questions. Additional functionality for student support is provided by the 'Online Tutor' developed by the Teaching and Learning Unit of the Faculty of Economic and Commerce.
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Globalisation Project
Department: Law
Name: Peter Jones
Globalisation and Law (GAL) was developed as a Universitas 21 project by CDS in cooperation with Dr Sundhya Pahuja from the Faculty of Law and staff from the University of British Columbia. GAL facilitates an interactive, collaborative approach to student learning about processes of globalisation and their basis in and impact on domestic and international law. A series of modules on topics relating to globalisation and the law are linked to topics in the Forion online discussion system, which was designed and produced by CDS for use in this project. Students submit extended critiques on topics for assessment, and follow up with discussions using the Forion system.
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Grazing Project
Department: Land and Food Resources
Name: David Chapman
The Ecology and Management of Grazing Systems is a 200 / 300 level subject that aims to teach the principles and practices of pasture and grazing management for efficient and sustainable animal production in southern Australia. As the subject title indicates, it emphasises the ecology of our grassland ecosystems - particularly the interactions between the environment and pasture communities, and between pastures and the animals that graze them.
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Greek Vases CD
Department: Arts
Name: Jaynie Anderson
This CD-ROM contains a searchable database of high quality images, QTVR rotatable objects and comprehensive descriptions of the collection of Greek vases in the Ian Potter Museum at The University of Melbourne - www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au. The 76 vases, many of them rare, represent many aspects of the development of Greek vase painting in classical antiquity ranging from Mycenaean (13th century BC) to South Italian wares (4th century BC). They were acquired over many years for their teaching and learning value.
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Koori Health: Past and Present
Department: Medicine,Dentistry and Health Sciences
Name:
Koori Health : Past and Present enables future public health practitioners to learn about interactions and events central to the development and delivery of holistic Aboriginal health programs. Students adopt key stakeholder standpoints through role-playing and exploring an archive of video, audio, photographic and text-based resources based on historical, socio-cultural context of 1860's Victoria at Coranderrk Aboriginal station.
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Lady Masson lectures
Department: Science
Name: Valda McCrae
The Lady Masson lectures were endowed in memory of Lady Mary Masson, wife of Sir David Orme Masson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne (1886-1923). The 24 Lady Masson lecturers between 1949 and 2001 have been drawn from a broad cross section of eminent men and women in the sciences and the wider community and their lectures provide a unique snapshot of the development of science during the second half of the last century.
This biennial University lecture has been a highlight of the Melbourne University Chemical Chemical Society (MUCS) program which celebrates its centenary in 2003. A CD-ROM of the lecture notes with a short biography of each lecturer is accompanied by a 12 page colour booklet with a brief history of the University, the School of Chemistry, MUCS and the Lady Masson Lecture.
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LandUse
Department: Land and Food Resources
Name: Jeff Lawes
This project entails the conversion of a traditional lecture and tutorial environment (Water & Land Management), at ILFR department onto an on-line modular multimedia teaching and learning course via the Web. The structure of the system will encompass a series of interactive modules using a Case Study as framework where the students look at the land capability of a farm to provide a solution in a form of a Whole Farm Planning.
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LaSWOP Online
Department: Arts
Name:
The LaSWoP Online Project from the School of Social Work is designed to utilise multimedia and computer technology to simulate the assessment and decision-making processes undertaken by social workers in real practice situations. Participation in the LaSWoP project is part of the subject assessment options for students enrolled in Legal Context of Welfare Practice and Social Work with Individuals and Families.
LaSwoP Online is a web-based simulation that provides students with an authentic learning experience based around a series of carefully designed scenarios.
Students assume the role of Social Worker or Juvenile Justice Worker in order to gain valuable experience in dealing with typical cases that they will encounter when working in their chosen field.
This project was the winner of the Australian Internet Award 2000 (Educational Division) conducted by the Australian Financial Review.
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Lemonade stand
Department: Law
Name: Helen Bird
This project involves the production of a web-based shell (the ‘‘LMSS shell’’)for teaching legal principles by simulating real-world problems, and providing the means by which students can answers questions, draft documents, and communicate with the others. The underlying engine will involve a database which maintains records of student activity and which can accommodate a variety of different content for the simulation. The main metaphor for the user interface will be a ‘‘file’’ of material.
The system must be flexible enough to allow for a variety of content to be included; the initial areas of application will be in legal research for law students(the Legal Research Workbook), and for business law problems for commerce students (the Lemonade Stand). Other content is anticipated and hence the LMSS shell must be a flexible authoring environment to allow for inclusion of new material.
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Little Kids Can Do
Department: Education
Name: Dianne Chambers
Little Kids Can Do is a CD-ROM for educating student teachers in the use of computers in the classroom. It includes a Quicktime VR view of a junior primary classroom environment which has links to video-recordings of children using computers in the school situation, and short pieces of text to accompany the videos. These CD-ROMs are used as a "class set" to augment the face-to-face lecture/tutorial program.
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LLEIC
Department: Law
Name: Camille Cameron
Learning Legal Ethics in Context is a collection of exercises jointly developed with the support of a Monash-Melbourne collaboration funding grant.
An important objective of the exercises is to demonstrate the consequences of ethical or unethical behaviour. Similar ethics simulations have found that students are inclined to believe that ethical considerations are nice, but have little place in the 'real world' of corporate clients and adversarial lawyering.
These exercises are designed to raise the issues in as realistic a way as possible and enable student engagement with ethical issues individually and by working as part of a team. Realistic and persuasive scenarios are developed and presented to the students who take on authentic roles and tasks over a period of time.
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LRW2
Department: Law
Name: Nicki McLaurin-Smith
This project, ADVANCED LEGAL INFORMATION SKILLS (ALIS), will provide a web-based whole of course modular online tutorial program to impart the necessary legal information literacy skills to students undertaking the LLB law degree. ALIS will take an incremental approach, embedding appropriate skills modules in each compulsory subject of the undergraduate law degree. The proposed skills framework for ALIS is drawn from the Australian Information Literacy Standards (AILS), informed by Faculty perceptions of the required skills for law students.
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Machinery management
Department: Land and Food Resources
Name: Ken James
The aim of this project is to develop a multimedia package for web based delivery for the new degree subject, 206317 Horticultural Engineering. This multi-media package will also be used by students in the Advanced Diploma subject 206154, Horticultural Technology and in machinery related subjects in TAFE courses. The package will be delivered in modules and be problem oriented, giving real life examples from horticultural managers.
This multimedia education package will include interviews with managers of horticultural businesses dealing with real machinery management issues, and include a database of the extensive range of machinery and technology used to manage horticultural businesses. The student will be given problems regarding management decisions relating to equipment use and will be required to analyze the needs of the business and the major machinery related tasks that are undertaken.
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Multifocal German Program
Department: Arts
Name: Kristina Brazaitis
The Web Multifocal German Project (WebMGP) was developed by Dr Kristina Brazaitis from the Department of Germanic and Swedish Studies and CDS. It is designed to assist students with beginners’ German using self-paced learning and self-assessment through a series of exercises including dialogue and dictation exercises. The program features a large number of audio files used in listening exercises, a glossary, and cultural materials.
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Navigating the Native Title Act
Department: Law
Name: Maureen Tehan
Navigating the Native Title Act (NNTA) was developed by CDS with Dr Maureen Tehan from the Faculty of Law. NNTA allows students to become familiar with the Native Title Act and thus enables more productive classroom teaching and learning while developing skills in statutory interpretation. It presents a series of exercises Aural Studies Onlinebased around the Act that guide students through the various parts of the Act in a process of independent learning. Students complete written exercises, and submit their work online for feedback and assessment using the Quokka question and answer system developed by CDS.
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Neo
Department: Information Division
Name:
NEO is, in its simplest form, a system for delivering engaging and richly interactive learning activities.
For the last 5+ years Courseware Development has specialised in working with academics to create innovative, cutting-edge solutions to enrich the process of teaching and learning at The University of Melbourne. It quickly became apparent that many of the solutions being developed for specific projects had widespread appeal and there was a need to try and generalise the technology so that the underlying pedagogical approach could be applied in more discipline areas.
Thus the NEO project was born with the goal of making it faster, easier and more efficient to build online educational solutions that support powerful pedagogies.
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Neurobiological and Psychological Function
Department: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Name: David Andrewes
This web-based program aims to provide the student with a new appreciation of the core course materials through exploration of the links between neuropsychological theory and clinical disorders. In the past, lectures and examinations tended to test the students’ factual knowledge. This program is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore the epistemology of these areas of psychology and gain insight into the relationship between theory and practice through analysis and the synthesis of material within a problem-solving format. Students must take on the role of a neuropsychologist, attempting to diagnose the condition of a case-study patient from separate sets of documentary evidence; interviews, MRI Scanes, psychological tests, etc. Three case studies have been developed by CDS and Dr David Andrewes of the Department of Psychology.
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PARiS (IPACA )
Department: Economics and Commerce
Name: Mr Keith Pigdon
The Performance Assessment and Reporting Instruction System (PARIS) is a web-based creation of Professor Patrick Griffin and Ms Shelley Gillis of the Department of Learning and Educational Development, and CDS. Using PARIS, students design an assessment strategy that involves the performance of a complex task related to an applied setting, such as a school or a workplace, and defend the decision rules associated with the assessment result. Central to PARIS is the online workbook, which students use throughout nine weekly sessions to help them develop an assessment plan. Practical application of the plan follows, the results are calibrated, and a report is written. A CD-ROM depicting videos of real-life situations and interviews is also employed throughout the course.
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Plant Data Base
Department: Land and Food Resources
Name: Greg Moore
he Ornamental Plant Materials Database Project by Dr James Will and Jill Kellow from the Institute of Land and Food Resources and CDS resulted in two major products. The first was The Burnley Plant Directory, a CD-ROM used by students for study and revision of plant materials. The CD-ROM contains images illustrating the recognition characters, plant habit and landscape use, as well as text describing the environmental tolerances and botanical information of all plants that will be studied in the semester. The second was an online computer aided learning environment called Plants For Designed Landscapes, consisting of a series of exercises based around an online version of the database. Students learn to recognise plants by their significant characters, correctly apply and use the botanical names of these plants, describe the
plants’ environmental tolerances, and identify their suitability for use in a range of landscape situations.
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Political Campaign
Department: Arts
Name: Sally Young
The project is an on-line simulation of an election campaign in which students role-play as journalists and political advisers. It is an integral assessed component of the subject. Individual students are each alloted a role as either:
1) a political adviser in a campaign team, or
2) a journalist covering the campaign.
Each student will be given a ‘pair’ or an initial ‘contact’. It is the political adviser’s job to try to influence their journalist’s reporting. It is the journalist’s job to get behind the adviser's ‘spin’ and report the campaign. This relationship is not only highly interactive but also, as in the ‘real world’, both cooperative and competitive. A number of unexpected events will occur in the online campaign simulation and there are key assessment tasks for each student to complete.
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Postgraduate Essentials
Department: School of Graduate Studies (SGS)
Name: Teresa Tjia
Post Graduate Essentials is an on-line non-credit bearing course aimed at equipping research postgraduates with information, study strategies and management tools essential for a successful start to the first 6 months of candidature.
The course content was initially developed for research postgraduates with limited access to the Parkville campus, particularly postgraduates engaged in science or medical research based at regional and hospital campuses.
The project also enabled the development and testing of a delivery model that could be utilized for other academic topics and postgraduate audiences. An on-going "community of practice" and peer support network for postgraduates is being supported by the School of Graduate Studies.
contact SGS project liaison Teresa Tjia,t.tjia@unimelb.edu.au , or Jeanette Fyffe, j.fyffe@unimelb.edu.au for more information.
Awards:
ASCILITE- 2004 ( Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education)
Finalist Australian University Teaching Awards (2005)
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Quokka
Department: Information Division
Name:
This project involves the creation of a generic Quiz/Submission system, which is accessible to users via the Internet. The system can be used as a stand-alone system or an integrated component within a web site.
It will comprise of a front-end component and a backend system, the latter being a generic mechanism for the delivery of quizzes and submission exercises. In addition to the commonly used online question types, such as those included in packages like WebCT, CourseBuilder and Blackboard Courseinfo, the system will allow the developer to easily develop and incorporate other question and submission types.
The system will incorporate a pool of quiz questions and submission exercises from which a developer can choose to create a task to present to students. The system’s frontend will be using HTML web pages, Director Shockwave, Flash, or Java and will be using a web browser. The system will be responsible for providing the client with question data and options, marking answers, sending marking feedback and calculating/creating summaries of student results.
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Researching History
Department: Arts
Name: Steven Welch
The History Essay Submission website is a set of related web pages which can be used by students to submit research essay topic proposals and bibliographies electronically, and will allow staff to assess and respond to the students' submissions.
The aim is to provide rapid feedback on, and approval of students' proposed essay topics. The system was developed by CDS for Dr Steven Welch of the History Department.
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Sickmoo
Department: Veterinary Sciences
Name: Peter Mansell
Sickmoo is to be developed for use by senior (3rd and 4th year) students studying Veterinary Science. It is intended to be an aid to their learning of subjects related to clinical bovinemedicine.
The program operates in a similar fashion to a text-based adventure game or a Multi-user Dimension (MUD). Users type in commands that express which part of the cow they wish to examine and the computer responds with either a picture or a written description of the result of the examination. At the end of the examination the student is asked to give a diagnosis, which can be reviewed after the student receives additional information such as clinical pathology results. The system will be web-based and will allow for the addition of extra cases and for the tracking of student use.
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Sound Design Skills
Department: VCA Sound Production
Name: Roger Alsop
Sound Design Skills is the first subject of its kind being delivered to Sound Design students at the VCA. It aims to enhance the skills and conceptual knowledge bases of undergraduate, Graduate Diploma and Post Graduate students. Students are exposed to concepts and problems inherent to the Sound Design process that are best explored individually within the students own time frames, and where the class environment may not result in the best pedagogic outcomes.
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Trust Accounts Legal Tutoral (TALT)
Department: Law
Name: Marton Davies
Trust Accounts Legal Tutor (TALT) was developed by CDS in conjunction with Peter Jones from the Faculty of Law, A/Prof Adrian Evans from the Monash School of Law, and Laurie Neville from the Law Institute of Victoria as a Melbourne/Monash project. Using a situated, problem-solving approach, TALT provides students with practical experience in legal trust accounting, fostering a level of proficiency necessary to carry out their legal trust account duties upon entering the profession. TALT guides students through a series of exercises that in a practical, contextual and highly interactive manner by providing students with feedback as they work through complex simulations of trust accounts scenarios.
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U21 History-Asia
Department: Arts
Name: Nicki Tarulevicz
This wholly online course is part of the Certificate in Global Issues offered through the Universitas 21 collaboration.
From Burma to Japan, Manchuria to the Philippines, Hawaii to Cambodia and Tibet, this subject explores the histories of Asia, the Pacific and the West's involvement in these areas from the 16th Century to the present, with an emphasis on 20th century history. The subject is divided into three thematic groups covering:
1 early contacts between Asia, the Pacific and the West;
2 colonisation, resistance, and the struggles for independence;
3 the decolonisation process and recent and contemporary crises in Asia and the Pacific today.
The course is highly interactive and media rich:students lead asynchronous tutorials and chat session, view videos, listen to audio 'historian's perspectives, complete quizzes, take part in role plays and email games, and explore 'zoomified' maps. It is offered over an intensive 9 week period and includes an orientation week.
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VDMCS part 2
Department: Architecture, Building and Planning
Name: Bharat Dave
The Virtual Design, Management, and Construction Studio (VDMCS) focuses on teaching and learning in building construction and management, and the links back to architectural design. The website brings together aspects of three subjects that are undertaken by students: Construction Methods and Equipment, Management of Construction, and Construction Cost Planning. The VDMCS aims: To create student activities associated with building project construction and management using internet-mediated interactions; To create a resource base for the constituent subjects, in particular a building site image database, accessible via the internet. The VDMCS was created by a team from the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning, and CDS.
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Virtual Print Room
Department: Arts
Name: Jaynie Anderson
The Virtual Print Room (VPR) was developed by Professor Jaynie Anderson from the School of Fine Arts (Art History & Cinema Studies), Classical Studies and Archaeology and CDS. VPR is an online learning environment that includes a high quality digital image database of selected digital images of Renaissance and Baroque prints and extensive catalogue information. This project allows students to actively engage in the process of exploring a collection in a way that was previously impossible, using a digital library of old master prints placed within an educational framework for use in postgraduate courses in museology and curatorship. VPR allows students to engage in the process of analysing conceptual themes, creating a visual argument, and producing an accompanying catalogue. Students can log in to VPR and produce an online exhibition that can be viewed by other
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Virtual Retinoscopy
Department: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Name: Sharon Haymes
The Virtual Retinoscope site was developed, in collaboration with CDS, by Dr Sharon Haymes and Assoc. Prof. George Smith of the Department of Optometry and Vision Studies. Retinoscopy is a fundamental technique used to objectively determine a patient's refractive error (i.e. their spectacle correction).
This web-based interactive module has been designed as a 'stepping stone' from the theory given in lectures to the application in clinical practice. The module is divided into two parts: Background tutorials on the retinoscope, and practical experience via the virtual retinoscope. The virtual retinoscope simulates different patients' eye conditions and models how the retinoscope's beam reacts when different lenses are placed in front of the virtual patient.
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Virtual Shopping Mall
Department: Arts
Name: Annamarie Jagose
The Virtual Shopping Mall (VSM) was developed by CDS with Dr Annamarie Jagose from the Department of English and Dr Lee Wallace from the Women’s Studies, University of Auckland as a Universitas 21 project. Students explore a simulated cultural environment which has animations and interactive self-assessment exercises and self-testing quizzes with as well as detailed theoretical and historical material to allow students to build up a robust knowledge of and familiarity with key concepts in critical and cultural theory in an engaging way.
Awards:
Ascilite 2001 - Highly Commended (Web)
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Virtual Virtometer
Department: Science
Name: Charles Cottriall
The Virtual Vertometer module centres on a highly interactive online simulation of a real optical instrument that students must understand and be able to operate during practical classes. The purpose of the simulation is to introduce students to the components of the vertometer, and to prepare them for their practical sessions, so that they spend their time with the actual instrument efficiently. The learning outcomes this package are: Enhanced student comprehension of essential ideas and concepts which are fundamental to theoretical and practical understanding of optical appliances; and increased perception of relevance to clinical situations.
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Visual Veterinary Test (VVT)
Department: Veterinary Sciences
Name: Rebekah Williamson.Dr
The project involves developing a software engine designed to facilitate teaching-staff developing problem-solving exercises in Veterinary Science. Key features include Web-delivery, recording of student access, and providing feedback directly to student. The software engine will include a generic authoring module that will enable each individual academic to include material of their choice into a problem to be solved systematically by the student. Suitable images and material developed within the Veterinary Clinic and Hospital is currently archived in a database that could be accessed to include in the authoring module.
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