Microsoft recently rolled out more updates to Teams, increasing the functionality and usability and improving user experience with meetings, chats and collaboration. What’s new? Live captions with speaker attribution Microsoft Teams have added speaker attribution to live captions. This means
Teesside University’s Professional Development Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning: Recognising Excellence in Learning and Teaching (RELT) encompasses our taught and CPD programmes. Read about our recent fellowship successes…
Learners can be a valuable source of support and bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the learning table. Learners can exchange information and insights for the benefit of their peers, which gives everyone the opportunity to broaden their
This online conference focuses on developing students as independent self-regulating learners. The event will have a conversational focus and will consider how personal tutoring enables the addressing of disparities in engagement, progression and degree outcomes by students from groups underrepresented in HE and/or with protected characteristics. Through discussion and practice sharing, we will identify ways in which this fundamental component of HE can make higher education more inclusive of diverse student populations and enhance outcomes for all students. Read more for information on how to submit a proposal…
Student expectations have shifted significantly and there is an expectation of access to high-quality learning materials and engagement in active learning as opposed to passive listening. Excellence in learning experiences will be those that achieve goals in both motivating students
Recently, as you’d expect at the start of the academic year, we’ve seen an increase in support requests with colleagues enquiring how best to provide lecture recordings to their students. Today’s blog post will therefore focus on the advantages of
Getting the Most out of Assessment and Feedback – Monday 16th November 2020 @ 14:00hrs.
Academic colleagues will be supported to reflect on and craft a principled, evidence-informed approach to devising flexible assessment and feedback strategies, gaining valuable insights and practical guidance into ways they might optimise their own assessment practices for themselves and their students…
Effective feedback is more important than ever in instances where there is need to accommodate flexible study patterns and maintain productive student engagement in our hybrid learning environments. Folding in regular feedback opportunities is crucial for checking for individual understanding; giving students an indication of where they are in relation to achieving learning outcomes or standards…
The wide-ranging impacts of Covid-19 have increased the risk of student non-continuation. Students’ accounts of their experience during lockdown and of their isolation on return to university and college remind us of the extraordinary challenges they face, and of how little we know of the consequences for students’ successful transition to and through higher education…
We’ve created a series of videos that set out some key considerations for teaching through a hybrid model. The Principles of Course Design for Hybrid Learning Toolkit, available on Unity forms a benchmark to develop and maintain an academic offer
