Associate Professor Katrina Clifford

School of Communication

Co-investigators: Emma Ryan
Enhancing the leadership and employability skills of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) undergraduates using digital simulation as an authentic learning and assessment tool

This project explores the use of digital simulations as an authentic learning and assessment tool for teaching enterprise and employability skills to undergraduate students in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) disciplines.

Dr. Jo Henriksen Kate Moncrieff

School of Education

Deakin Teaching Performance Assessment (DTPA)

This DeakinDesign Seeding project aims to directly address student recommendations from a 2022 Students as Partners microgrant project. It will focus on the production of professional digital resources to support the communication, understanding and experience of the Deakin Teaching Performance Assessment.

Anne Kershaw

Deakin Business School

Innovative technology use in Event Management assessment

This project will review the technology used by student to complete these innovative assignments to identify new options and build appropriate support resources for students. This initiative will enable a comprehensive review of alternatives and/ or improve the provision and instructions provided to students in order to submit a range of assessment formats.

Dr Wayne Read

Deakin Business School

Co-investigators: Ahmed Ferdous, Allison Ringer

Are you speaking my language? Enhancing the career readiness of marketing graduates by understanding the variations in terminology between marketing academics and industry practitioners

The project is designed to help strengthen the links between academic driven discipline knowledge and the approaches of industry. The goal is to initial create an interactive dictionary of key terms and concepts which will be integral for the marketing major.

Dr Pallavi Shukla

Deakin Business School

Innovative assessments in Economics

This project will enhance assessment for the unit ‘Global Challenges: Food, Water and Climate’. Goals will be to improve the authenticity and student engagement with the assessment task.

Alissa Burnett

School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Towards reflective, feedback focused assessment: the removal of summative multiple-choice questionnaire.

This project will include the removal of Multiple-Choice Questionnaires (MCQs) as summative assessments in the unit Lifespan Nutrition and Assessment Methods for Nutrition and Physical Activity Research to create a more feedback focused assessment. The changes are intended to create a blueprint for course wide change toward feedback focused assessments.

Dr Pearse Fay, Dr Valerie Watchorn

School of Health and Social Development

Co-investigators: Kelli Nicola-Richmond, Kirk Reed, and Rachel Knight

The project focuses on an important and timely issue of assessing and modifying the assessment task rubrics used across the entire four-year course. This is to better align how feedback and communication of assessment results is provided to the Occupational Therapy student cohort across all Occupational Therapy units.

Dr Tamara K Browne

School of Medicine

Redesigning the assessment of Applied Ethics unit

This project aims to redesign the assessment of the Applied Ethics unit, which is an online first-year unit with no pre-requisites, taught to students taking a variety of degrees across Deakin. These aim to teach students how to critically analyse and apply ethical principles and practices in their studies and future work to make ethical judgements.

Dr Imali Dias

School of IT

Co-investigators: A/Prof Kevin Lee, A/Prof Thuong Hoang
Web-based Augmented Reality assessment tool for embedded systems

This project proposes to use Web-based Augmented Reality (AR) assessment tool for hardware-intensive units across our course. AR-based education has already been used across multiple areas such as tertiary education, defence, medicine, and gaming. The proposed project will incorporate this already existing technology to build a web-based AR tool to assess students remotely in real time and provide on-time feedback.

A. P. Kevin Lee, Prof Ben Horan

School of IT

Co-investigators: Kate Sherwell, Nghia Dang, Imali Dias, Damien Elderfield, Matt Zampatti

OneDeakin approach to inductions and competency

The project focuses on an important and timely issue of assessing and modifying the assessment task rubrics used across the entire four-year course. This is to better align how feedback and communication of assessment results is provided to the Occupational Therapy student cohort across all Occupational Therapy units.

Dr Prue Francis

School of Life Sciences

Co-investigators: Karen Young, Andrew Oxley, Craig Sherman, Ty Matthews

The jellyfish effect: assessing learning in an innovative way

Internal funding through WIL and research initiatives saw the purchase of a jellyfish aquarium system that can be used for teaching and learning outcomes in marine science. This project will seek to develop three assessment tasks linked to the jellyfish system that is integrated across three-year levels in the major Ocean, Fisheries and Aquaculture of the marine science degree.

Dr Matt Thomas and Dr Nicole Downes

Won’t somebody please think of the children?

Dr Sian Mitchell and Dr Lienors Torre

Reimaging the Film, Television and Animation Curriculum through Virtual Production.

Dr Erin Hawley

Empowering students as co-creators of online learning resources to ensure diversity and inclusivity in ACX701 Communication Concepts.

Dr Helen Young

Improving student engagement in the Master of Arts (Writing and Literature) through digital technologies.

Dr Mark A. Wood

Developing a more inclusive and diverse criminology curriculum: A diversity audit of the Bachelor of Criminology’s reading lists.

Naomi David and Dr Virginia Kinnear

Enhancing student engagement and retention through integrated teaching, learning and assessment.

Dr George Aranda and Dr Kate Johnstone

Digital Technologies in Education.

Dr Jessamy Gleeson and Professor Gabrielle Fletcher

Centering Indigenous knowledges in curriculum design through the relational principle.

Kate Moncrieff and Dr Cassandra Iannucci

A Roadmap to a Health-ier BHPE.

Dr Nicole Siller

Deakin and Associates: Integrating simulation-based unit design and instruction in the capstone unit.

Tom Keel

MMP219 – Sustainable Property Construction, a new unit in the Property and Real Estate (PRE) degree.

Dr Emilia Bellucci

Enhancing student engagement in undergraduate business and technology ethics.

Dr Justine Ferrer and Professor Amanda Pyman

Real world learning: Triangulated authenticity through curriculum co-design with industry and students.

Dr Rakesh Pati

Decolonizing Deakin Units – Developing Australian Cases.

Nicki Hartney

Course wide revision and digitisation of an authentic longitudinal virtual midwifery caseload of women.

Claire Crossfield

Interactive branching scenario simulated learning.

Associate Professor Jade Sheen

Supporting course-wide integration of the Deakin Psychology Virtual Clinic.

Dr Liza Raymond

Enhancing feedback focused laboratory-based learning experiences through student partnership.

Lucy Ainge and Hayley Birch

Curriculum development of novel eLearning templates utilizing simulated case studies and situational feedback to support development of patient-centered reasoning skills in pharmacology.

Kellie Britt and Dr Debbie Baldi

Inclusive digital resources for enhanced teaching of clinical communication, examination and procedural skills.

Associate Professor Genevieve Pepin and Valerie Watchorn

Evidence-based practice is not a dirty word.

Associate Professor Andrew Cain and Associate Professor Julien Ugon

An onboarding program for first trimester students in the School of IT.

Dr Desley Whisson

Course-wide curriculum enhancement to develop students’ GIS skills for careers in environmental science.

Associate Professor Thuong Hoang

MetaCloud Innovation.

Dr Nateque Mahmood and Associate Professor Siva Krishnan

Course Site Redevelopment – Supporting students’ employability.

Dr Prue Francis and Dr Trish Corbett

Keep calm and try again: implementing a course-wide feedback assessment in a marine science course through perfecting the scientific report.

Dr Sophie McKenzie and Associate Professor Sharon La Fontaine

Development of innovative and integrated staff resources to support career development learning (CDL) embedded across courses in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment.

Dr Akari Nakai Kidd and Dr Angela Kreutz

Developing meaningful content and student experience for ‘Indigenous Narratives and Design Processes’ (Master of Architecture core unit).

Dr Adam Cardilini and Dr Prue Francis

Integrating VR Learning Experiences across LES Courses.

Lana van Galen

Consistency, Cohesion and Alignment of Assessment across (undergraduate) Architectural Design Units.

Dr Sunil Aryal and Dr Michael Hobbs

Creating a course-wide case study incorporating software-based learning infrastructure to facilitate authentic experiences and enhance learning outcomes for students in the Graduate Certificate of Information Technology.

Dr James Gong

Transforming the Learning Experience of Water Network Design.

Dr Jonathan Kua

Integrating Micro-credentials and Professional Industry Certifications with Portfolio-based Assessments using Constructive Alignment.

Dr Sergey Polyakovskiy and Maksym Slavnenko

An AI-driven feedback and assessment digital platform to improve critical problem-solving, reflection and writing skills, student learning experiences, and industry readiness.