Category: ePortfolio
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Equity in Action
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration for Inclusive Teaching Practice As part of the Monash University Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Sharing Circle (EDI-SC), I collaborated with the group on the creation of Equity in Action, an online resource designed to move inclusive teaching from theory to practical application. The initiative stemmed from earlier work mapping the CDIO engineering framework…
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Team secondment
Building capability through quality improvement In 2025, I was seconded to the DVC(E) EDI Team and led a project to review the educational design of the EDI program, including training and online modules. Initially, I felt motivated by the opportunity to shape a program that directly impacts equity, diversity, and inclusion outcomes. I began by…
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My ‘Hubs’
Central repositories of teaching and learning resources As a quality scoping project, when I began my role as an Educational Designer at Monash in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in 2017, I audited eighteen courses within the faculty. I did this to understand the quality and educational needs of the faculty. I…
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Seminar series
In 2023, I began a seminar series targeting teaching and learning issues identified in consultations with educators. In my practice, I pride myself on creating highly experiential, hands-on professional development workshops and experiences for educators. However, these workshops only occur twice per year before the start of the semester to leverage the downtime of most…
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Example Moodle Site
Through the analysis of student feedback, I identified recurring concerns about navigational difficulties within faculty Moodle sites due to inconsistent information placement across units. While a template was available to staff, this template included code and was not a self-support option for staff with no coding knowledge or experience. In addition, being forced into a…
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Learning and Teaching Workshops
When I began as an Educational Designer in my current institution, the biggest revelation I carried through from my past experiences was that showcasing peer work can be much more motivating for staff than giving presentations or creating informational documents. Improvements were much more tangible when they were suggested by someone in the same position…
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Moodle Design and Delivery Guidelines
When I started at my current institution, I found there was a need for an evidence-informed document to help educators achieve the targets of the new education strategy and improve the use of the virtual learning environment, Moodle. So, I developed the MNHS Blended and Online Guidelines (first iteration). I evaluated the current literature in…
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Mental Health Basics For Educators
Myself and a colleague created a module called ‘Mental Health Basics For Educators’ during COVID-19 in response to a surge in mental health concerns for students during lockdown. We had completed the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training and wanted to contextualise this information specifically for education-focused academics. The MHFA training was deliberately broad to…
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Online module development – Clinical supervision
This project involved a redevelopment and modernisation of an existing support document for clinical and fieldwork supervisors. The content was developed into Articulate Rise with the addition of several modern resources. Module introductory videos were developed, along with branching scenarios, and student interviews that highlighted the international student lens. This also involved the repeat interviews…
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