UKAT recognise that personal tutoring/academic advising personalises learning, promotes student persistence, enhances success, and helps address differential attainment, supporting a student’s academic progress and personal development throughout their University career…
Creating Active Learning through Lecture Capture and Microsoft Teams
“Active learning focuses on how students learn, not just on what they learn.”. It is a process where students are encouraged to actively participate in gaining deep understanding of a topic, rather than receiving information from the tutor only. this construction of knowledge and consequently understanding of that knowledge requires learning to be active where their learning is challenged…
Using ReView: Teesside University’s Lecture Capture Solution
Review is Teesside University’s lecture capture solution and a great tool to utilise through the transition to hybrid learning. It gives a straightforward approach to recording lectures and other video content that your students can access in their own time. This greatly enhances the student experience, and the rich video content will most certainly be of benefit to all students…
LTE Support during Hybrid Learning
Academic staff will have by now received a copy of the Resilience Review Tool and Academic Enhancement Framework (hybrid model). LTE is here to support you with a range of services. The LTE Team is fully committed to doing everything we can to support colleagues with transitioning their teaching and learning…
Connect More 2020 – Free Online Jisc Event
Connect More is an event ran by Jisc every year and is an opportunity to explore new ways to elevate the student experience, which is especially important during this challenging time. It will return this summer as a free online nationwide event, running on 16th, 17th and 18th June…
Flexible Assessment in a Hybrid Delivery Model
When we refer to flexibility in learning, we usually focus on flexible instruction: we strive to implement instruction that supports more flexibility in time, space, pedagogy, and technology (Jones-Devitt, 2020). However, being flexible allows us to change more than our instruction…
Hybrid Delivery Model and Student Engagement
From September 2020, the University will adopt a hybrid delivery model consisting of on-campus and online delivery, aligned with Government social distancing restrictions. This model is distinctive from existing forms of online or blended delivery…
Using Turnitin within Assignments – Did you know?
Turnitin is a great tool to utilise when setting up an assignment in Blackboard. Using Turnitin can make it easier to collate a cohort’s assignments, as well as to view originality reports…
Teams Live Events – Did you know?
Using Teams is a great way to host live events. Teams Live Events is designed for situations where the few are presenting to the many, contrasting with standard Teams Meetings which are designed for interactive and collaborative participation from many members of the meeting…
Effective Engagement through Pedagogic Practice
Student engagement can have a positive impact on enhancing the student experience and has a critical role to play in improving student retention and achievement. Teesside University is committed to promoting effective engagement and key elements of its Learning and Teaching Strategy explicitly captures how we engage our students…