Quite often, course handbooks or module guides develop into (unavoidably) lengthy Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF documents that students find quite difficult to navigate or engage. Cath Turner, a Senior Lecturer from School of Health and Social Care had a similar issue with her course BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy….
As you may know, many teaching staff are opting to record their lectures using Teesside’s ReView Lecture Capture system powered by Panopto. One of the drawbacks of the existing lecture capture set-up is its ad-hoc recording feature. At present, staff are required to log-in to Blackboard to launch the software at the start of a lecture to record and end the recording manually…
As part of the Future Facing Learning programme and the iPad roll-out, the Panopto mobile app is accessible to all staff and students. Using the app, students can view video recordings made available to them in their current and past modules without having to go into Blackboard. As teaching staff, you will still need to follow the process of recording and embedding video captures in your Blackboard module as you normally would…
We got all Minecrafty at Teesside University on 12th July with our first ever Minecraft in Bioscience’s workshop. The day started with an inspiring keynote lecture from Joel Mills, a Global Minecraft Mentor and Teaching Enhancement Advisor at Hull University, who has pioneered the use of Minecraft in Higher Education. To put it mildly he’s a Minecraft whizz and has developed educational worlds…
Are you looking for ideas to incorporate the new Future Facing Learning toolkit in your lessons? Look no further! Click here to read more…
Last Wednesday (19th September) LTE supported Teesside University Business School (TUBS) as they ran an induction event for around 200 students in the newly refurbished Business School premises…
For those staff undertaking the Future Facing Learning Digital Development Programme, we’re pleased to announce our Sandpit events. The Sandpit features contributions from Microsoft and our partners from XMA, and provides an opportunity to share practice and ideas across multi-disciplinary teams and also to find out about additional features or tools not covered as part of the core training programme…
Bite-size is effectively ‘chunking’ relevant content into manageable nuggets of information. It is a great way to engage learners who prefer snappy, accessible and easy to remember content. Making information available in digestible portions provides students with the opportunity to work through material in stages, allowing them to focus on topics, which results in deeper, more meaningful learning…
The growth in Internet technology and the availability of cheaper, versatile hardware such as mobile devices has rapidly increased online video consumption. YouTube was launched in 2005, after just over a decade with a billion users, almost a third of the world population host, stream or download videos…
Earlier this year a few colleagues and I attended the Blackboard User’s Conference, organised annually by Durham University. It’s one of the better conferences in our field and is always really well organised by our counterparts over in Durham…
