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COFA Learning Matrix


Desired learning outcomes (What?)

Rationale (Why?)

Relevant activities (How?)

Potential technological tools

  • Information literacy

  • Global practice

  • Digital literacy

  • Ethical practice

  • Preparation for success

  • Exposure to, awareness of, contribution to external

    • activity

    • conversations

    • resources

    • techniques and approaches

  • Appropriate referencing

  • Appropriate equipment for the 21st-century graduate

  • Managing information load

  • Multi-dimensional evaluation

  • Sharing and reviewing online resources

  • Connecting with outside experts and communities

  • Check for plagiarism

  • Media-making/ mashups

  • Digital storytelling

  • Copyright/Creative Commons discussions

  • Activities relevant and authentic to discipline

  • Embedded activities for generic attributes

  • Contextual prompts to evaluate sources

  • Self-directed learning

  • Reflective practice

  • Engaged learning

  • Co-learning

  • Quality learning environment and experience

  • Negotiate understanding

  • Feedback on the course

  • Reflection on learning

  • Global practice

  • Consistency of experience (equity)

  • Problem/case-based learning

  • Flexible access to material

  • Project planning and management

  • Student self-tests

  • Teacher (and technology) as facilitator of learning

  • Choice of modes and activities

  • Access to technology (e.g. mobile devices)

  • Agreed code of conduct

Giving and receiving feedback

  • Multiple perspectives

  • Feedback on performance

  • Collaborative writing

  • Group negotiation and planning

  • Assessment of team work

  • Review (e.g., group work)

  • Publishing

  • Reflection

  • Working in teams

  • Collaborative practice

  • Negotiating understanding

  • Multiple perspectives

  • (for teacher) management of group work

  • Digital literacy

  • Inclusivity (e.g. NESB)

  • Collaborative writing

  • Group negotiation and planning

  • Project planning and management

  • Problem- or case-based learning

  • Assessing team contribution

  • Media-based projects

  • Support for a variety of communication styles

  • Critical reviewing

  • Critical thinking

  • Independent learning

  • Negotiating understanding

  • Multiple perspectives

  • Feedback

  • Practice of

    • critical reviewing

    • critical thinking

  • Reflecting

  • Debating

  • Reviewing

  • Building social knowledge

  • Review of/commentary on online material

  • Giving and receiving feedback

  • Synthesis of learning

  • Apply learning (at high level)

  • Able to solve new problems

  • Application of knowledge in integrated way

  • Experience "authentic" practice

  • Integrative (could be group) project

  • Problem/case-based learning activities

  • Written communication

  • Negotiate understanding

  • Contribute to external

    • activity

    • conversations

    • resources

  • Appropriate referencing

  • Reflecting

  • Debating

  • Reviewing

  • Publishing

  • Checking for plagiarism

  • Oral communication

  • Presentation skills

  • Language proficiency

 

  • Sharing audio/video material

  • Presenting

  • Digital storytelling

  • Audio/video discussion and feedback

UNSW Sydney. Selecting Learning Technologies [Online] available at: https://www.teaching.unsw.edu.au/selecting-technologies

accessed: 21.07.25


Table 2: Tools related to activities, and their contribution to learning outcomes

The following table provides examples of the tools you may be interested in using and looks at the types of activities and learning outcomes that are likely to be relevant.


Potential uses of technology

Relevant activities (How?)

Rationale (Why?)

Desired learning outcomes (What?)

  • Social bookmarking

  • RSS feeds/aggregators

  • Sharing and reviewing online resources

  • Connecting with outside experts and communities

  • Exposure to and awareness of external

  • activity

  • conversations

  • resources

  • Information literacy

  • Global practice

Wiki

  • Collaborative writing

  • Group negotiation and planning

  • Project planning and management

  • Synthesis of knowledge

  • Negotiate understanding

  • Multiple perspectives

  • Working in teams

  • Self-directed learning

  • Giving and receiving feedback

Blogs

  • Reflecting

  • Debating

  • Reviewing (e.g. group work)

  • Publishing

  • Negotiate understanding

  • Multiple perspectives

  • Feedback on performance

  • Contribute to external

    • activity

    • conversations

    • resources

  • Information literacy

  • Global practice

  • Working in teams

  • Written communication skills

  • Critical reviewing

  • Giving and receiving feedback

Discussion forum

  • Reflecting

  • Debating

  • Reviewing

  • Building social knowledge

  • Negotiate understanding

  • Multiple perspectives

  • Feedback

  • Written communication skills

  • Critical reviewing

  • Giving and receiving feedback

LMS groups (Moodle)

Problem- and case-based learning

  • Negotiate understanding

  • Multiple perspectives

  • (for teacher) management of group work

  • Working in teams

  • Self-directed learning

Peer review (Moodle)

Assessing team contribution

  • Feedback on performance

  • (for teacher) management of group work

  • Self-directed learning

  • Reflective practice

  • Turnitin

Checking for plagiarism

Appropriate referencing

  • Information literacy

  • Academic writing

  • Class Collaborate web conferencing

  • Seesmic

  • VoiceThread

  • BB Collaborate Voice tools

  • Audio discussion and feedback

  • Video discussion

  • Review of and commentary on online material

Alternative to face to face or text

  • Oral language skills

  • Oral communication

  • Presentation skills

  • Critical reviewing

Class Collaborate web conferencing

  • Working in a group

  • Connecting different locations

  • Archive conversations

  • Flexible access to activities

  • Presentation skills

  • Oral communication


Can be original work or sourced material.

  • Sharing video material

  • Presenting

  • Digital storytelling

  • Discussion trigger

  • Reflective tool

  • Archiving class activities

  • Digital literacy when part of student work

  • Alternative to face-to-face or text

  • Accommodates alternative learning styles (visual)

  • Ability to view material (locations, experiences etc.) not otherwise available

  • Multimodal/flexible access to resources

  • Revision for NESB students or those unable to attend class

  • Presentation skills

  • Oral communication

  • Digital literacy

  • Enhancement of student experience

Interactive media

  • Presenting core concepts concisely

  • Simulations of processes, hypothetical problems or cause and effect

  • Illustrates complex concepts

  • Alternative to face-to-face or text

  • Accommodates alternative learning styles (visual)

  • Aids knowledge retention

  • Supports learning by experimentation

  • Improve learning outcomes

  • Enhance student experience

Flexible access to material

Revision for NESB students or those unable to attend class

Self-directed learning

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