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COFA Online invited to present at Apple Education iPad Seminar

Posted by Simon McIntyre - March 21st, 2013
Live in the Apple Education Sydney studios on March 14, 2013.

COFA Online invited by Apple to showcase work with iTunes U

Simon McIntyre from COFA Online was recently invited by Apple Australia to be part of a live online seminar series entitled Teaching with iPad and iTunes U. Apple was impressed with COFA Online's use of iBooks Author and iTunes U Courses to create the Lighting Essentials learning materials. Simon was invited to speak about how COFA Online developed and used this content in the third installment of the webcast series called Creating Learning Materials for you Course on Thursday March 14.

You can watch the webcast for free simply by registering your email address on the webcast website, which only takes a few seconds. Simon's part of the webcast begins at 30:15.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Watch the Apple Webcast now ->

 

It was fantstic to be nominated an an exemplar user of Apple technologies in teaching, and it was a great experience to meet the people at Apple and participate in the live broadcast.

 

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MOOCs, Rhizomes and Ruksacs: The Future of eLearning?

Posted by Simon McIntyre - October 24th, 2012
The College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales presents a free seminar that discusses the implications of current trends in online education.

Free Seminar: Where is eLearning right now, and where might it go next?

 

Where and When

Friday 9th November 2.30pm - 5.00pm

EGO2 Lecture Theatre
College of Fine Arts
Selwyn Street, Paddington, NSW 2021 

 

Seminar Overview

COFA invites you to an afternoon seminar in which four leaders and experts in the field discuss the current state of online learning. Each speaker will express their own thoughts on the current context, as well as show examples of how the future may transpire. Following the formal presentations, the speakers will form a panel to answer questions from the audience, in what will most likely be a lively and colourful debate.

Introduction by
Professor Ian Howard - Dean, COFA, University of New South Wales

Speakers
Curt Bonk - Professor, Indiana University (USA)
Curt will detail his experiences in teaching a MOOC and offer guidelines and business plans for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment.

Richard Buckland - Associate Professor, CSE, University of New South Wales
Richard will talk about ways we can use elearning technology, including MOOCs, to help make learning inspirational (not just to make it cheaper or more massive).

Simon McIntyre - Senior Lecturer, COFA, University of New South Wales
Simon discusses how learners and educators are embracing open educational resources, and how content can be designed to break institutional boundaries and infiltrate different educational networks on a global scale.

Rick Bennett - Associate Professor, COFA, University of New South Wales
With social-networks being an integral part of our students lives, should they also be creating 'study-networks' and choosing the technologies they use to learn?
 

For further details

Contact Rick Bennett rick@unsw.edu.au
 

 

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Hacking the City: International research lab and exhibition

Posted by Simon McIntyre - May 13th, 2011
COFA's undergraduate students can participate in this international research project

RARE EARTH 创设纪-稀土 is a game-changing research LAB and integrated exhibition project under development by Ian McArthur, Brad Miller and Prof. Richard Goodwin at the College of Fine Art (UNSW) in Sydney in collaboration with Donghua University (Shanghai) and Tsinghua University (Beijing).

 

Join the RARE EARTH 创设纪-稀土 wiki to get the latest project updates ->

 It is scheduled to happen in September this year 2011 in Shanghai. In a globalised, interconnected yet schizophrenic world, opportunities for creatives from east and west to collaboratively engage in dialogue and practice that experientially deconstructs cultural difference particularly within art and design education contexts is quite rare, and although online spaces in principle allow and encourage us to inhabit digital space together, there are complex challenges to effective communication that can limit understanding. The College of Fine Art (COFA) at The University of New South Wales has constantly pushed boundaries between creative disciplines and cultures in its engagement with China. In particular Porosity Studio and The Collabor8 Project (C8) have provided art, design and architecture students from COFA, Donghua University, CAFA, Tsinghua, important opportunities to occupy and explore this seemingly elusive common ground in the city and online.

RARE EARTH 创设纪-稀土 simultaneously, engages and celebrates this vital creative reflexivity by dynamically engaging with the research of Brad Miller and his networked Interactive Media Platform //augment_me// to combine new and retrospective content, generated by undergraduate and postgraduate art and design students during our LAB. The project constructs itself as a series of lectures and intensive ongoing studio/workshops facilitating content development for a dynamic immersive environment drawing on a live database (Flickr) comprised of collaborative interdisciplinary outputs of artists, designers, architects, teachers and learners engaging in an exploration of the city as a plastic entity. RARE EARTH 创设纪-稀土 is a laboratory where student will explore and test their concepts at the scale of the city and within the interstitial digital space of the network. Through this process RARE EARTH 创设纪-稀土 participants become more equipped to deconstruct the common misperceptions that hold humans apart. By showing students themselves in otherness they not only share their realities they also realise the fundamental commonalities all humans experience. The outcomes transform perceptions of difference into cultural literacy preparing them to make constructive interventions as creative practitioners in an interconnected world.

 

Student places available

There are a total of 20 places available for 3rd and 4th year COFA and FBE students students at Rare Earth.
This program will offer a number of subsided places to assist with airfares and accommodation during the project. 3rd and 4th year COFA and FBE students will be able to enrol in the project as an elective using the following Porosity Studio codes:

Porosity Studio:Undergraduate Code SDES4754 Postgraduate Code SDES9754

 

For further details

Ian McArthur ian.mcarthur@unsw.edu.au
Feiying Ren feiying.ren@unsw.edu.au

 

 

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