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User-Experience Design for Mobile Learning


This practical workshop shows you how mobile technology can augment formal learning and provide context-specific support in both online and in-class environments. In this course, Paul Hibbitts, a collaborative user-centered designer and UX analyst, guides you through the fundamentals of performance support aspects of mobile learning, including the potential role it plays in formal learning, and how UX viewpoints and techniques can significantly enhance the learner experience. Demonstrating a mobile course companion he created using WordPress, Paul shows you how this approach was received and iteratively improved. Aimed at administrators, facilitators and workplace trainers, this interactive session also gives you the opportunity to contribute your own experiences with mobile learning and ask questions about where to go from here as you develop your own mobile learning initiatives in your workplace.

Seven Vignettes of Learning and Teaching Excellence

Come and explore seven examples of learning and teaching in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. The Learning Centre places an emphasis on communication and internet skills to teach LFS students how to make their learnings practical and have greater impact in the community and beyond.

Food for Thought: An Introduction to Food History

Many of the foods we eat have taken a long and complex journey across time and geography to reach our tables. Explore the origin of a wide variety of old world and new world foods and their significance in history. This course includes tastings as well as lectures and discussion.

Gospel Mosaics: Jesus in the Canonical and Non-Canonical Gospels

Name: Gospel Mosaics: Jesus in the Canonical and Non-Canonical Gospels Date: Saturday, November 3, 2012 Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm Location: Irving K Barber Learning Centre Description: Examine the many different pictures of Jesus that emerge from a range of ancient gospels. The morning focuses on the depictions of Jesus in the canonical New Testament Gospels, while the afternoon is devoted […]