Due to the ongoing uncertainty, students are spending a lot of time behind their screens and online, which can have detrimental effects on their emotional and mental wellbeing. Whilst the online world can help students to feel connected to others,
CreatorLab Fellow Scheme – Exciting Student Opportunity!
CreatorLab Fellow is a scheme for TU students to be paid to work on exciting collaborative projects with TU academic staff!
Teesside University’s CreatorLab project aims to empower multi-disciplinary connectivity and creativity in educational design, drawing upon the wealth of knowledge and skills of stakeholders from across the university to drive the evolution of Future Facing Learning. The project seeks to achieve learning and teaching innovation through staff-student partnership and collaboration…
Large pieces of content? Developing bite size knowledge acquisition through curriculum design
Bite-size learning is an approach that offers small learning units with just the necessary amount of information to help learners achieve a goal. Activities can include short-term lessons, coursework and project work that are broken down into ‘bits’ of information
Digitally Enhanced Education webinar series – Friday 15th January
Due to popular demand, the E-Learning team at the University of Kent have decided to run an additional webinar as part of the ‘Digitally Enhanced Education webinar series’ on Friday 15th January (the week before Spring term) so that people
Breakout rooms are now available in Microsoft Teams
Breakout rooms within Teams allow the organiser of the meeting to divide the meeting into sub-groups to encourage discussions, a great tool for hybrid teaching! The meeting organiser can create up to 50 breakout rooms and can automatically or manually assign participants to the
Hints and tips for interaction in Collaborate
As we continue to deliver hybrid learning, more of us are using tools like Teams and Collaborate. In this post, we will look at some of the ways in which you can get some interaction with your students.
UKAT Annual Conference 2021
We are excited to announce that the 2021 UKAT Annual Conference will be held online and will focus on the theme of inclusion in higher education. We have a feature-packed programme of activities under development which we can’t wait to share with you. Read more to save the date…
Teacher Presence and Learning Design
Ann Thanaraj – Head of Online Learning and Paul Durston – Digital Learning Manager have created another video in the ‘in conversation’ series. This is the fourth video in the series and the conversation centers around two key principles: The importance and celebration of the
CreatorLab Fellow – Exciting Opportunity
Teesside University’s CreatorLab project aims to empower multi-disciplinary connectivity and creativity in educational design, drawing upon the wealth of knowledge and skills of stakeholders from across the university to drive the evolution of Future Facing Learning. The project seeks to achieve learning and teaching innovation through staff-student partnership and collaboration. Read more to find out how you can apply…
Student engagement: Why some students don’t turn their camera on
An emerging concern amongst academics is around engaging students during online sessions – particularly students who join sessions, but don’t engage the camera or microphone. This has led to staff being unsure whether students are engaging and making contributions, which