We’re putting SRESCon on hold for 2021 to not add something extra to everyone’s calendar after a rough two years of pandemic teaching. However, we would still like to celebrate how educators use SRES to personalise learning and support for their students.
We’d like to invite everyone who uses SRES to apply for the inaugural round of the SRES Awards.
The submission process is designed to be as light on your workload as possible:
- Think of how SRES helps you to make learning better for students, and teaching better for you and others around you.
- Record a five minute video.
- Submit your video.
Award categories
Educators use SRES in so many different ways to make things better. We’d like to encourage you to apply under one or more of the following categories.
Relationship-rich education category. We’d love to hear about how you use SRES to foster stronger teacher-student, and perhaps even student-student relationships.
Supporting-the-supporters category. If you support your colleagues in using SRES to support students, we’d love to celebrate how you do this and the impact that you have.
New start category. Everyone needs to start somewhere; if you’ve used SRES for less than a year, we’d love to hear about the ways that you have started to use it and how it has helped.
Innovation category. Many educators push the boundaries with SRES – we’d love to hear how you stretch the platform to do innovative things in the support of student learning, engagement, and relationships.
Assessment and feedback category *new*. From personalised feedback to live marking and everything in between, many use SRES to supercharge assessment and feedback processes. If you’re doing something creative and impactful here, we’d love to hear more.
Student support category. Do you use SRES to make sure students don’t fall through the cracks, and can receive timely and personalised support? We’d love to hear how this happens.
Performance and productivity category. Apart from helping with relationships and engagement, SRES helps educators to work many times faster than they otherwise would; we’d love to hear examples of how you use SRES to make time for the important things like actually relating to students instead of doing VLOOKUPs.
Submissions
We’d like to make it as easy as possible for you to share your SRES practices. Given how we’ve all been working with Zoom and other educational video for the better part of two years now, instead of writing hundreds of words for an application, we’d like you to record a relaxed five-minute video.
To do this, we recommend that you:
- Write down some talking points in dot point format. This should focus on:
- What problem(s) or issue(s) were you facing? Why? What was the context?
- How are you using SRES to address these?
- What impact has it had on students and others? What evidence can you provide to demonstrate this?
- Prepare some tabs in your browser to show the key SRES and/or LMS pages that support your points. Don’t worry about making a PowerPoint – we’d prefer you talk to the camera or voiceover some browser tabs.
- Share your screen via Zoom (or other screen-recording software) and start recording. See how you can record to cloud from Zoom.
- Don’t worry about editing the video – your submission does not need to have a high production value. We are celebrating your use of SRES in the support of students, not your ability to make videos.
Because we would like to celebrate different uses of SRES, we ask permission to make your video publicly-available. We will work with you to blur out any student details before this happens, so don’t worry about doing this for your submission.
The closing date is Friday 19 November 2021 at 23:59 Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11).
Judging and prizes
Submissions will be judged by a small team from the University of Sydney.
Award winners in each category will:
- Receive public recognition for their excellence in and commitment to student learning and experience
- Be able to pitch a new feature idea for development
- Receive reasonable design support for an extension for their current use of SRES
The fine print
If you have any questions, please contact danny.liu@sydney.edu.au.
- Eligibility: Any individual or team from an institution that uses SRES is eligible to apply.
- Currency: Practices need to be from within the last 3 years.
- Categories: If you are planning on multiple submissions, please only submit one per category. Each submission needs to be a separate video.
- Assessment criteria: Within each category, submissions will be evaluated on their (i) impact on students, (ii) creativity, imagination, and/or innovation, and (iii) humanity. This needs to be supported by evidence.
- Nomination on behalf of someone: We’re grateful that educators are keen to submit an award nomination on behalf of colleagues, and are happy to support this. Apart from the nomination being expressed in the third person, all other aspects, criteria, and expected standards around claims and evidence will remain the same.
- Number of awards: We are aiming to give one award per category, but reserve the right to adjust this based on the quality of submissions received.
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