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Enhancing communicative spaces for practice-based education

in an inland regional Australian University

Franziska Trede

Purpose of the debate • to provide a creative, safe and sustainable communicative

space for staff interested in PBE• share experiences, resources and practices of PBE• to reflect, reconsider, critique, develop capacity, and support

each other

Context • Multi campus schools, faculties• Cross-disciplines• Voluntary participation

Use of Interact FunctionalityAnnouncementsResources Interact forumDiscussion threadsWiki Poll

• Be as open as you can.

• Try to share critical moments that expose challenges, successes and errors that we can all learn from.

• There is no pressure to be seen to succeed.

• Feel free to disagree and engage in vigorous debate, but treat all contributions respectfully.

• Use the debate constructively for genuine professional development.

Conditions

Strategies to encourage debateBrainstormQuestions Literature

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debate activity

Participation

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Evaluation

• Valued sharing, hearing from others

• Safe space for reflecting and discussing

• Good moderation• Not enough time• Too long time frames for

each debate

Evaluation of Interact

• Forum and threads are confusing

• No spell check• Too slow to load• Difficult to read on the

screen• Difficult to navigate

Evaluation of chatroom

for those of us using web access for Interact- the ‘text window’ in the chat room is only 3 lines high

What software enables effortless dialogue and debate?

How to encourage more interactive, critical dialogues?