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Session 4: eLearning Practices in Higher Education

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  eLearning Practices in Higher Education This session was designed to highlight on the micro learning environment design (MicroLED), microteaching and eLearning cases studies in higher education (HE). Firstly, a MicroLED video was prepared which contained the steps needed or involved while doing microteaching. In the MicroLED video, I chose one topic (Prokaryotes) from the unit I am teaching i.e. General Biology (BI103). I also stated the audience and provided an overview of my topic together with the learning outcomes. The T&L activities and eAssessments were identified and stated in the MicroLED video. I also explained how I am going to present in my microteaching and included the lecture slides, assessments questions and strategy I will use to engage students in my teaching. As for microteaching, flexibility was given to us to choose our microteaching day and time by our instructor. The information in MicroLED was used to do conduct microteaching. In order to grasp th...
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Session 3: eLearning Trends in Higher Education

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  eLearning Trends in Higher Education eLearning is now becoming the face of teaching and learning in higher education. More educators and even students are getting inclined towards e-learning with the introduction of latest version of technologies for instance smart phones, tablets and laptops. eLearning applications such as learning analytics, bring your own devise (BYOD), mLearning, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and markerspaces are already making its contribution towards teaching and learning and it will definitely influence the future of higher education in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Some of the eLearning applications that I use in my course are learning analytics (Moodle student logs and EWS), BYOD (students are using tablets, smartphones and laptops) and mLearning (SMS sent out by course coordinates to update and notify students of upcoming activities) and makerspace (SLS hub, genetic and microbiology labs). BYOD is a better fit with current studen...
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