OB3 – online forums reimagined. Bring your content and discussions together in the same place, addressing student isolation, and enhancing learner interaction.

Joined January 2018
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11 Oct 2023
Learn how the @Sydney_Uni and Uni @otago use #co-design in a jointly delivered #Ophthalmic Science programme. They were profiled as an exemplar in the @ASCILITE 2021-22 Contextualising Horizon Report. Read about this case here: ob3.io/codesigningwithstuden… #edtech #HigherEd
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30 Mar 2023
We're so proud to see OB3 co-founder Dr Gloria Gomez recognised as one of 30 women edtech leaders in Australasia. Women are under represented in EdTech company leadership, but good to see this situation is gradually changing (see link for more)
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2 Dec 2022
Ara Midwifery have met their aim to ensure their students could access distance education in provincial and rural areas. WHO recommends this model to improve recruitment and retention of health workers outside of main urban areas. See p. 335 and p.340 in link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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2 Dec 2022
In this chapter, my colleagues report on research that help to identify the type of activities their students undertake with OB3 (see fig. 18.2). Their evidence support our decision to bring content and discussion in one place for enhancing learner engagement and interaction.
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2 Dec 2022
Reading that OB3 supports online networked learning draws smiles on us, as interaction design features were implemented to enable a distributed community of practice to engage and exchange to learn together. Check our 2012 DEANZ poster researchgate.net/publication…
18 Nov 2022
OB3 came out on top on learner engagement, data ownership and user-friendly interfaces. It surpasses major players in online forum collaboration tools. These are at the core of OB3's UI design (see Gomez & Tamblyn, 2012). It's wonderful to see them turn up in a comparative study.
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11 Nov 2022
Otago-Sydney assignments: Experiential online learning via a journal club in basic science increases educational engagement of postgraduate doctors. Poster: openjournals.library.sydney.… #distanceeducation #medicaleducation #activestudentparticipation #edtech #eLearning
28 Oct 2022
In OB3, medical postgraduate students undertake group assignments for the Optik-i Project - a kind of reliable Wikipedia for the Optics topic. 100 entries so far. Demo: vimeo.com/showcase/9180763 #distanceeducation #medicaleducation #activestudentparticipation #edtech #elearning
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21 Oct 2022
This cmap illustrates how OB3 enables collaborative assignments in a postgraduate medical programme run by two institutions over 18 years. Paper bit.ly/gomez-petsoglou-FLANZ…. Demo vimeo.com/650193657 #edtech #distanceeducation #codesign #asynchronouslearning #cocreation
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7 Oct 2022
Curious to learn more? These three short videos show how to co-create study content in OB3 vimeo.com/showcase/8830781 #edtech #onlinelearning #distanceeducation #codesign #asynchronouslearning #cocreation #collaborativelearning
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At #DEL22 OB3 co-founder Gloria Gomez brought together health & design educators to talk about their experiences of online teaching. Read the writeup over on linkedin #higheducation #healtheducation #edtech #design lnkd.in/gPP6G5c6
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22 Sep 2022
DEL 22 Online starts today. Our panel "Design Educators Conversing with Health Educators on Lessons Learned from Teaching Online for More Than a Decade" is in DAY 1 September 22, 10:10 a.m. EST | 12:10 AEST | 2:00 a.m. NZST. Register for free at delconference2022.psu.edu #del22
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9 Sep 2022
Text: Find this quote in the paper “Fostering online student interaction using the OB3 web application for online study”, ASCILITE 2014 proceedings ascilite.org/conferences/dun… #edtech #onlinelearning #distanceeducation #codesign #asynchronouslearning
2 Sep 2022
Curious? Sign up for a teacher plan. You can quickly set up asynchronous collaborative assignments for your students who are based where they work – often in remote locations, rural, small towns, as well as cities. #edtech #onlinelearning #distanceeducation #codesign

ALT This animated GIF is comprised of two frames. Frame 1 contains two sentences. First sentence says “To address disconnection and student isolation during asynchronous collaborative assignments, OB3’s online forum features put students in control of decision making and have substantial influence.” Second sentences says “See how this works” Frame 2 is an illustration done in black and white using cartoonish visual style. The drawing illustrates a process of how students and academics put an OB3 document together. Academic A provides a title and introduction for the document. Student A contributes and image. Student B contributes a video. Academic contributes a paragraph. Student C contributes to a survey. Finally, students C, D, and E contribute to a discussion sparked by the resource Student A created.

26 Aug 2022
Our INTED22 presentation identifies a growing body of literature on students codesigning learning. Our research focuses on student-led or student-derived content with the support of OB3. Learn more at vimeo.com/showcase/9180763/v… #edtech #onlinelearning #distanceeducation #codesign
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19 Aug 2022
Learner engagement, data ownership, and user-friendly interfaces are at the core of OB3 research and development since its inception. So, it is wonderful for these characteristics to turned up in a comparative study. Sign up and check out the videos vimeo.com/showcase/8830781
12 Aug 2022
OB3 is solving a significant challenge in distance flexible education. It supports key aspects for deep learning: learner interaction, collaboration and giving feedback. Learn more in our INTED22 presentation vimeo.com/showcase/9180763/v…
5 Aug 2022
We are often surprised by how quickly teachers and students take to our platform. Check out OB3's authoring features vimeo.com/showcase/8578257/v… or signup for a free or teacher plan at ob3.io #edtech #highered #distanceeducation #asynchronouslearning #elearning
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15 Jul 2022
At OB3 we've reimagined online forums. Learn more vimeo.com/showcase/8578257/v…… or signup at ob3.io #edtech #highereducation #collaboration
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