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- Represent student diversity in curriculum
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Faculty resources, support and training
Teaching and learning in your faculty
Teaching and learning (T&L) in each faculty is overseen by your Associate Dean Teaching and Learning (ADTL), Associate Heads of School T&L, and a Faculty T&L Committee.
As part of the ADTL portfolio, a wide range of faculty support services and resources is available to academic teaching staff to help build capacity and assist you to implement inclusive teaching practices.
These include: online teaching guides and resources, digital learning support, administrative assistance, and professional development training and workshops.
This page outlines:
- where you can go to for teaching and learning support in your faculty
- staff development and training opportunities.
Be sure to check out what each faculty offers as you may find something helpful that is relevant to your own teaching area!
Where to start?
A to Z Index of Deakin Help Guides includes instructions and helpful tips from assessment to using YouTube videos.
See also the IT Help page for guides and assistance with CloudDeakin and digital teaching technologies.
DLF Faculty Pod teams
Deakin Learning Futures (DLF) have dedicated faculty teams that work with course teaching teams to design and enhance Deakin courses. Each DLF faculty pod includes a curriculum design group, a resource development group and quality assurance support. For further information contact DLF.
Faculty of Arts & Education
- Digital Learning (Arts-Ed staff only) on CloudDeakin provides guides and tips for all aspects of building, navigating, using and managing CloudDeakin unit sites.
- Digital learning team supports Arts-Ed teaching and learning activities. The team provides staff with support, guidance, resources, and best-practice advice for using CloudDeakin, the online learning environment at Deakin, and the associated technologies which integrate with the system. Contact digital learning support.
- Deakin staff wiki comprises a list of all faculty and divisional wiki pages. Here you will find links to your faculty wiki. Become familiar with the resources on your staff wiki and click on the 'Watching' widget (top right) to receive email updates.
- Arts-Ed staff wiki includes teaching and learning resources, staff induction guides, and more.
- Faculty guides (tutors/sessional staff):
- Faculty guides (Unit Chairs and Co-ordinators):
- Work Integrated Learning (WIL) team supports authentic learning activities in Arts-Ed. Their primary focus is student engagement, retention and offering opportunities for students to enhance their graduate employability.
- Faculty staff list: go to your school staff list for T&L, administrative, technical and other support contacts as needed.
- Arts & Education Liaison Librarians can provide you with an overview of library services, and specialised help finding resources for your subject area.
- Student information.
- Course advisers and enrolment officers.
- Student mentor programs.
Faculty of Business & Law
- Contact Learning Innovations CloudDeakin support for assistance with digital learning.
- Building Capacity for Enhanced Learning (BCEL) includes a comprehensive suite of T&L resources:
- Teaching and learning resources
- Authentic assessment methods: a practical handbook for teaching staff
- Unit preparation guide
- Learning Innovations BCEL Program
: professional development sessions including sessional induction - Adding a Video and Welcome Message
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- Deakin staff wiki comprises a list of all faculty and divisional wiki pages. Here you will find links to your faculty wiki. Become familiar with the resources on your staff wiki and click on the 'Watching' widget (top right) to receive email updates.
- Bus-Law staff wiki (Bus-Law staff login required).
- Faculty staff list: go to your school staff list for T&L, administrative, technical and other support contacts as needed.
- Business & Law Liaison Librarians can provide you with an overview of library services, and specialised help finding resources for your subject area.
- Student information.
- Course advisers and enrolment officers.
Faculty of Health
- Faculty of Health Academic Development Unit (HADU) team provides digital learning assistance for all your digital technology teaching needs. See their comprehensive CloudDeakin help guides. Contact Dr Ian Story (Educational Developer) or email HADU.
- Health Innovative Learning and Teaching Network (HILTN) contains a wealth of teaching and learning resources, tips, guides, videos and much more. In particular, see the Inclusive Learning Series.
- Download this handy Health Staff Support (DOCX 24KB) one-pager.
- Deakin staff wiki comprises a list of all faculty and divisional wiki pages. Here you will find links to your faculty wiki. Become familiar with the resources on your staff wiki and click on the 'Watching' widget (top right) to receive email updates.
- Health staff wiki contains all the information and support you require for teaching.
- Faculty staff list: go to your school staff list for T&L, administrative, technical and other support contacts as needed.
- Health Liaison Librarians can provide you with an overview of library services, and specialised help finding resources for your subject area.
- Assessment guides and resources includes instructions in setting up assignment folders, grades, quizzes, results processing, rubrics, self-assessments, surveys and student video submissions.
- Student information.
- Course advisers and enrolment officers.
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
- Contact SEBE CloudDeakin support or phone (03) 52272378 for assistance with digital learning technologies.
- SEBE Learning and Student Experience is designed to support staff with information for learning, teaching and assessment design, development and practice. In this site you will find information about the people, contacts, governance and quality assurance processes, guidelines and opportunities that support teaching and learning development.
- SEBE Learning Support provides an overview of teaching support services and staff contacts for: teaching innovations, course design, learning resources, and integrated learning.
- Deakin staff wiki comprises a list of all faculty and divisional wiki pages. Here you will find links to your faculty wiki. Become familiar with the resources on your staff wiki and click on the 'Watching' widget (top right) to receive email updates.
- SEBE staff wiki (SEBE staff login required).
- Faculty staff list: go to your school staff list for T&L, administrative, technical and other support contacts as needed.
- SEBE Faculty Office: organisational chart and links to departments and groups.
- SEBE Liaison Librarians can provide you with an overview of library services, and specialised help finding resources for your subject area.
- Student information.
- Student mentor programs.
- Course advisers and enrolment officers.
Staff development and training
Training and workshops
Deakin encourages all staff to explore development opportunities and expand their professional skills.
- Staff Development Hub DeakinDevelop provides information about Deakin's professional development programs and other initiatives.
- Ongoing and fixed-term staff can view training opportunities on DeakinSync. Go to the DeakinPeople home page and click on the 'Training' tile. This tile is not available for sessional staff. Sessional staff should discuss their professional development needs with their manager or teaching team leader and request enrolment in appropriate training workshops.
- Deakin Learning Futures offers capacity building workshops on a range of teaching and learning topics. See Teaching & Learning conferences, workshops & seminars for more information or contact DLF.
- Find out how to get IT training at Deakin. The Digital Learning Portal is a central hub for IT training at Deakin. Deakin's IT trainers regularly update the site to include new online learning courses. Information related to face-face training workshops and training enrollment is via DeakinPeople. If you would like more information about the training eSolutions offers, please contact [email protected].
- Lynda.com provides online video instruction for Deakin staff and students for a range of topics such as Teacher Tips, Flipping the Classroom and iPad Classroom: The Basics.
- Mental Health First Aid (MFHA) training at Deakin teaches participants how to use an action plan to assess risk and provide support in the first instance in situations where either staff or students may be experiencing a mental health crisis. Register via Deakin People. Click on the Training tile and select DSL01—Mental Health First Aid Training. Please note that if you are a casual staff member, you will need to discuss this with your line manager and request that they send an email to Karen Stuart with your full name, Staff ID number and what training sessions you wish to attend.
CloudDeakin staff capacity building modules
- Curriculum Development for Unit Chairs.
- Teaching and learning at Deakin (Sessional staff).
Registration via CloudDeakin anytime: click the 'More' button on the top right, then select 'Self Registration'.
DeakinAir video tutorials
Getting started video tutorials for staff offer guidance on a range of digital technologies used in CloudDeakin including: how to post welcome message videos to Home Page, uploading captions files to a video, using Echo, embedding videos, CaptureSpace webcam recording, and much more.
Other teaching support services at Deakin
For more detailed information about inclusive teaching support offered by other Deakin divisions, go to our other ICCB pages on Teaching Support Services at a Glance.
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