July 3, 2018

Through living the value of “inspiring” we engage and motivate our students and communities to also proactively build innovation and capacity into their lives, careers and industries. Living this important value creates engagement and commitment from those around us.

Gamification is a useful tool for promoting Student Persistence and Student Motivation.

In this week’s bulletin, we draw on our current subscription to Monday 20 Minute Mentors to explore strategies to engage students through gamification.

By Kristin Ziska, Instructional Designer, North Arizona University.
Source: http://mondaymorningmentors.com/category/summer-traditional/

(See below for instructions on how to access the CSU free subscription to this resource).

“Gamification is using game elements and mechanics in a non-game context.”

In this 17-minute presentation, Kristin Ziska draws together some basic strategies and ideas for using gamification to promote student learning. Its basic elements are: goals, competition, feedback, rewards; also points, levels and lots of failure!

The three sections of this presentation are:

1. Preparing to gamify:

• Keep playing games and analysing
• Explore your content
• Begin to think like a designer

2. Four strategies for gamification and an example of each:

• Badging
• Leader boards
• Story-based approaches
• Embrace the power of failure

3. Strategies to deal with failures in gamification:

• Have a growth mindset
• Elicit student input into design
• Keep trying

Wisc-online allows you to explore games created by others and also to create your own at https://www.wisc-online.com/Arcade

Suggestion: try some examples of the “BeeKeeper” game in any topic where you think you know the answers. Then, try creating one yourself, based on your own content.

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Do you have 20 minutes per week to learn new teaching tips?

You have a short window of opportunity to access this resource.

CSU has an 8-week institutional subscription to the Monday Morning Mentor Summer (USA) Edition that expires on August 12. You can listen to the presentation and download the accompanying resources up to that time.

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CSU staff, please contact Ellen McIntyre: elmcintyre@csu.edu.au

or

Watch for weekly announcements on YAMMER and WHAT'S NEW .

Quote from a CSU Academic on Yammer: “These are good."

Email feedback: “It was easy to listen to, non-sensational and credible. I love the fact that the short session can be ingested at any time of the day.”

Topics so far in 20-Minute Mentors:

How Do I Release My Students' Natural Zest and Curiosity for Better Learning?

How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?

How Can I Move My Teaching Forward at Midcareer?

How Do I Set Students up for Success in Online Courses?

How Can I Inspire Creative Confidence in the Classroom?

Every week for eight weeks we will receive a new topic,

"presented by respected academic peers, cover timely and relevant topics in only 20 minutes—long enough to provide actionable insights, but short enough to fit anyone’s schedule."

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Professional Development opportunity for all.

Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching

is an open access COURSE for the Australian Higher Education Sector.

This teaching induction course provides key introductory learning and teaching concepts and strategies for those who are in their first few years of university teaching. The self-paced course is comprised of 11expert-developed modules, and several specialty modules and resources.
Follow this link for more information: Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching

You have access to a range of quality CSU resources to help you incorporate educational resources and techniques into your teaching. Check out the following:

• Teaching at CSU - the Division of Learning and Teaching website with links to resources for Teaching Staff, Online Learning, Assessment, Curriculum, Indigenous Curriculum, Workplace Learning, Technologies, Feedback and Analytics, and Learning Spaces.
  
• Resources for Learning and Teaching Academic and Professional Staff - searchable CSU database
  
• Learning Technologies - the starting point for a range of learning design options
• CSU Learning Exchange: Technologies in Context - a searchable database to promote online learning and teaching strategies
• The CSU wiki - a faculty-based source of learning and teaching information and strategies

Regular seminars on teaching-related topics are listed on the

CSU Professional Learning Calendar - accessed directly here

or from the Division of Learning and Teaching front page - accessed here

CSU Professional Learning Calendar:

Campfire Conversation University Teaching. Adobe Connect session 5 July 2018 at 1:00 pm.

OR

Drop In - Sessional Staff. Watch the calendar for the timing of these weekly online sessions.

This week - Adobe Connect session 6 July 2018 at 11:00 am

All CSU students and staff members have access to Lynda.com, an online subscription library that teaches the latest business, creative and software skills through high-quality instructional videos.

A search for 'gamification' returned 149 results, with 65 of these in Higher Education. Resources range from general teaching tips, to keynote lectures, to the specifics of various tools and applications for employing educational resources and techniques.

For example,

Gamification (4m 12s) video as part of the broader topic of Teaching Complex Topics

Gamification of Learning (2h 16m) for a more in-depth coverage.

The next Transforming Assessment webinar session to be held on
11 July 2018, will be on the topic of Transforming Feedback.

Selected speakers from the Assessment in Higher Education conference held in the UK on 28 June will present a panel-style review of some of the key messages from selected papers at the AHE2018 conference. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion between the panel and webinar participants.

Information on this and future events, archived recordings of past sessions, and links to resources can be found on the website at transformingassessment.com.

Register for free at http://transformingassessment.com

Highly recommended!

All staff with a CSU email address have free access to our annual

CSU subscription to the Magna Commons series of online seminars

Presentation handouts, full transcripts and supplementary resources are available for download if you don't have time to listen to the seminar.

How to subscribe

Staff with a CSU email address can obtain the Magna Commons CSU subscription code from Ellen McIntyre elmcintyre@csu.edu.au

Magna Commons suggests seminars to watch in the coming month:

Whether focused on creating a diverse student body or a diverse curriculum, increasing student and faculty diversity calls for collaboration across campus. The Magna Commons June focus was on embracing diversity in its multiple forms. Below are some seminars related to DIVERSITY:

• Advanced Online Seminar: Transgender Students and Creating a Safe, Inclusive, and Legally Compliant Environment
• Three Secrets to Building Diverse and Inclusive Online Learning Environments
• Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom

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