Making It Real: Project Managing Strategic e-Learning Development Processes in a Large, Campus-Based University.
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Abstract
The University of Sydney is a large, research-intensive, campus-based Australian University. Since 2004 a strategic initiative of project-based eLearning support has been creating teams of non-academic and academic staff, who have worked together to develop online resources to meet indentified needs. The University’s aims in continuing to provide this framework are to engage academics in educational change and to implement innovation. Project management principles are intrinsic, including an extended application and planning process (in which committees of academics represent faculties); they provide a framework and a shared language for talking about both conceptual development and practical issues involved in creating online learning and teaching resources. This fosters teamwork, dissemination of ideas and networking of teaching practitioners both within and across faculties. Resume L’Universite de Sydney est une universite australienne qui est grande (plus de 45 000 etudiants), axee sur la recherche et qui a le siege de ses activites sur un campus. Depuis 2004, une initiative strategique impliquant du soutien a l’apprentissage en ligne fondee sur des projets cree des equipes de personnel academique et non-academique, qui travaillent ensemble pour developper des ressources en ligne pour repondre aux besoins identifies chez les enseignants (Wozniak, Scott, & Atkinson, 2005). L’objectif de l’universite en fournissant ce cadre est de soutenir l’enseignement dans le changement educationnel et de mettre en place l’innovation. La maniere de gerer l’apprentissage en ligne a l’universite a ete decrite dans un article anterieur par Ellis, Jarkey, Mahoney, Peat & Sheely (2007)): ils decrivent comment le jeu entre l’orientation strategique de l’universite et les objectifs d’apprentissage et d’enseignement au sein des facultes determine la forme de l’apprentissage en ligne qui soutien alors l’apprentissage des etudiants. Le but de cet article est de decrire comment les principes de la gestion de projet sont appliques pour soutenir des collaborations strategiques dans le cadre de projets entre les specialistes de l’apprentissage en ligne et de petites equipes de professeurs afin de creer des activites d’apprentissage qui sont alignees avec les resultats d’apprentissage des etudiants. In this paper we will detail how the project process has allowed development teams to align the personal and pedagogical goals of academics and educational designers for teaching improvement with the strategic goals of the university and its constituent faculties.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".