Perhaps the most important benefit of creating module introductions is to help your students understand why they are doing what you are asking them to do. Module introductions should focus on providing context, whilst also covering essentials such as tutor contact details, module overview, the module guide, assessment, study planner and preparing students for hybrid learning…
It is our role as educators to engineer the curriculum as a vehicle for nurturing creative learning by enabling meaningful connections both within and across the boundaries of disciplinary knowledge and practice, encouraging learners to actively engage with new and unfamiliar ideas and viewpoints and to collaborate in their mutual development…
Colleagues in SHLS have developed a Minecraft Campus that they are planning to use during induction to familiarise students with the campus – this has the advantage of lessening first day nerves of students as they will have the opportunity to wander around the campus and find their buildings prior to arrival…
Putting thought into the planning of your hybrid learning module is vital to ensure that you are covering all bases of learning. In stage one, the toolkit covers a range of topics to consider for your own planning…
Academic staff will now have received a copy of the Principles of Course Design for Hybrid Learning toolkit, as well as a variety of Practice Guide resources focused around four core themes (Personal Tutoring, Student Engagement, Flexible Assessment, and Creative Learning)…
The Principles of Course Design for Hybrid Learning Toolkit is a resource to support the Resilience Review Tool process for schools. The aim is to contextualise the Hybrid Learning model to the nature of the subject discipline and assist in determining the extent to which courses could be delivered within the Hybrid Model…
A solution focussed approach to mentoring can help students to find solutions to the challenges they are presented with. A UKAT webinar on Coaching approaches for remote tutoring: helping students feel in control and connected is taking place on Thursday 25th June 2020, 2pm…
From September 2020, the University will adopt a Hybrid Delivery Model consisting of on-campus and online delivery. This is aligned with Government social distancing restrictions. This model is distinctive from existing forms of online or blended delivery. Subject to Government guidance, all students should have opportunity to spend some time on campus and some time learning online…
Recent published guidance around the need to develop Flexible Assessment for a Hybrid Model outlines the importance for assessment arrangements to be responsive to the requirements of a hybrid model of learning and teaching and the possibility of a combination of on-campus and online delivery from September 2020…
There are a range of new features that have recently been added (or are soon to be added) to Teams in order to help you to enhance your online learning experience…
