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Miriam Averna-Joint

Miriam Averna-Joint, FHEA, PGATEL, BSc (Hons)
Academic Technologist

Tel: 02476 523044

Room: WA 0.05a
Email: Miriam.Averna-Joint@warwick.ac.uk

Professional experience

Over her 20 year career in Higher Education, Miriam has worked in course and programme administration, quality, admissions, finance, and, of course, learning technology.

TEL interests
  • Bite-sized content
  • Cognitive load
  • Gamification and digital badges
  • RLOs
  • JISC digital capabilities
  • Accessible content
  • Student engagement
Projects

PGATEL

As part of her Postgraduate Technology Enhanced Learning (PGATEL) studies, Miriam focused her project on bite-sized teaching, digital capabilities, and e-learning fatigue.

Project title: Using bite-size learning objects to improve student digital capabilities.

Digital Teacher Education in CTE

Project aims:

  • Transformation and enhancement of teacher education at CTE
  • Quality
  • Inclusivity and access
  • Increase geographic range of partners & WBL
  • Address ‘cold spots’ & sparsity/supply issues
  • Achieve greater course cost effectiveness

Miriam has supported the project and its four strands: Mentoring, Digital Communities of Practice, Reusable Learning Objects, Student Experience and Quality Assurance.

Activity

Presentation:

Ball, A. and Averna-Joint, M. (2024) 'Small Changes in Teaching: The Last 5 Minutes of ClassLink opens in a new window, 'Warwick Education Conference, University of Warwick, 2nd May 2024.

Presentation:

Averna-Joint, M. (2024) 'Start as you mean to go on: Using H5P to deliver engaging TEL training to PGCE trainees', Active Learning Network Global Festival of Active Learning, 11th-15th March 2024. Available at: https://echo360.org.uk/media/7971e0cd-a717-44e7-a65b-9da41b33b66d/public

Presentation:

Averna-Joint, M. (2024) 'Using bite-size learning objects to improve student digital capabilities', TEAL Forum, University of Warwick, 11th March 2024.

Practice-based presentation:

Ball, A. and Averna-Joint, M. (2024) 'ITT in the Digital Realm: Moving complex f2f teaching into asynchronous delivery', RIDE conference 2024, University of London, 14th-15th March 2024.

Digital Artefact:

Ball, A. and Averna-Joint, M. (2023) 'Using Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) to enhance in session and blended learning activities,' TEALfest 2023, University of Warwick, 20th - 21st June 2023. Available at: https://warwick.padlet.org/jessicahumphreys1/tealfest-2023-digital-artefacts-vpieghkm9f5rycnfLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

Round-table presentation:

Averna-Joint, M and Rowan-Lancaster, J (2023) 'A powerful strategy for safe discussion of social justice issues by student teachers: The Rainbow Virtual Cafe,' TEAN conference, Manchester, May 2023.