The best outcomes for this project will be achieved by working as a partnership initiative between the Division of Information and participating ANU Colleges.
The migration to Wattle is an ANU-wide initiative with each phase tailored, as far as possible, to meet the needs of each College. We have over 800 teaching and educational design academics and even more tutors/demonstrators, many of whom have a significant online course support role. A number of general staff contribute to educational design and other aspects of maintaining online course sites.
Students will need to learn to navigate and interact with the new platform. All members of the ANU community need to be prepared for the transition, trained to use the new tools and given the opportunity to consider how teaching and learning can be enhanced by the new learning management system.
Colleges who are planning to migrate to Wattle can build off the central information services to develop contextualised support structures which work best for them.
Colleges should:
Determine processes and timeframes for your College to migrate from WebCT (or any platform) to Wattle
Prepare, inform and enable the college community to migrate to Wattle
Consider the resource implications for your College in the provision of training and support needed for staff to learn the new platform and examine the teaching and learning potentialities of the new platform
Determine how best (if at all) to use the $5000 Wattle grants for College specific Wattle support. Individual Colleges will tailor this grant to best suit their own needs. See: http://wattle.anu.edu.au/resources/grants.html
Contribute to the central repository for discipline specific and cross-discipline Wattle guides
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The role of the DOI Wattle Support Team will be to:
Provide support for WebCT throughout the migration process.
Provide technical expertise for the integration and implementation of Wattle in conjunction with our host partner, Netspot.
Prepare the ANU community for the transition to Wattle through information flow to the university community as the migration proceeds throughout 2009 and 2010, including campus-wide information sessions and developing and delivering generic training materials and sessions focussing on tool use and overviews.
Continue to support allied services for teaching and learning through the Information Services Teaching page including Audio-visual, Library and Information Commons.
Provide a centralised, single entry point information service at the Wattle website including the ANU Teaching Resources Guide (pdf 2.12MB) which contains both campus-wide and college specific information.
Provide support for College-based training and learning initiatives through:
- Building a central repository for all Wattle guides
- Provision of 'highest common denominator' training materials which can be quickly customised by College Wattle support to meet the specific needs of colleges or schools
- Working with College educational designers and technologists to further their knowledge of the potential of Wattle for teaching and learning
- Providing a total of up to eight $5000 Wattle grants for College specific Wattle support. See http://wattle.anu.edu.au/resources/grants.html
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Page last updated:
22 May, 2009
Please direct all enquiries to: wattle@anu.edu.au Page authorised by: Director, ICT Environments |