Dr Andrew Morgan & Amy Wilson
Org (Country)
Presentation - Amy Wilson in person, Dr Morgan remote

Dr Andrew Morgan has been involved in the aquaculture industry since 1995, working in resource management, science sales and marketing and in the Royal New Zealand Navy. He contributes to the New Zealand Aquaculture Magazine and part owns Seahorse World Aquarium. He is currently employed by the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic to develop all things aquaculture.

Amy Wilson is the Flexible Learning Adviser at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and a Co-convener of the ITP New Zealand eLearning Forum. She has a keen interest in instructional design and has worked with Andrew to develop the National Certificate of Aquaculture (Level 4) online.

Aquaculture online: Farming from your desktop

This presentation outlines the process of creating an online national certificate programme in aquaculture. Further to an approach by the Seafood ITO (SITO), the Polytechnic has developed the National Certificate in Aquaculture (Level 4), particularly for those already employed in the aquaculture industry. Creating an online course overcame issues of geographical distance and shift work, allowing learners to connect together to discuss and reflect on issues facing the aquaculture industry. Fundamental to this development has been looking at ways of connecting the content with the learners and their industry.

The aquaculture industry consists of different types of farms: fin fish like salmon and shellfish like mussels and oysters. By creating a scenario based environment, learners will be able to recognise how aquaculture structures and their layout interact with the environment and impact on the species being farmed. They will be able to interpret relevant information on farming a species and apply it in the production cycle. Learners will also be better able to develop and/or consistently improve on a structured system of protocols and methods to increase productivity. They will confidently make informed choices that have a positive impact on aquaculture operations.

Dr Terry Stewart
Massey University (NZ)
Presentation

Dr Terry Stewart has used scenario-based learning within his own discipline for over 21 years, an activity which won him a National Tertiary Teaching Award for innovation in 2003. With this background, he won and managed a 2005-2006 eCDF grant assisting to develop generic interactive scenario-based learning tools for use over the Internet. Currently he is secondment from his institute on a part-time e-learning fellowship, to facilitate and promote scenario-based learning at Massey University generally.

But surely it's harmless?  Tips and techniques on creating interactive scenarios using an ethics training

This paper reports on the development of a multimedia web-delivered interactive scenario for staff ethics training, for use in educational tertiary institutes which undertake research on human participants. It was constructed and delivered using the e-learning authoring and delivery tool, PBL-interactive. The scenario shows what can happen if ethical considerations are ignored.

While working through this fictional scenario, participants are “fly-on-the-wall”-type observers of an unfolding drama. At frequent points through the scenario, trainees are asked to reflect and comment on what is taking place, either though short quizzes or longer deliberations which link back to ethic principles. The entire development process was documented starting with initial concept through to the final output. This process involved initial conception, story-boarding, development of dramatic tension, humour, irony and scope for user reflection.

The presentation will describe this process, and propose some general principles for developing interactive e-learning scenarios of this nature. PBL-interactive was provide to all government-funded Tertiary Educational Institutions in 2006 as an e-Learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF) output. The ethics scenario was funded partly by AKO Aotearoa and is available for other institutions to amend and use via the AKO website.