Part six of the toolkit covers designing summative assessment. During this time, staff and students are having to adapt and become flexible in order to cope with the unprecedented levels of change and uncertainty. This is not only within their academic work, but also with their personal lives beyond university…
Formative assessment is a pedagogical approach that refers to a wide variety of methods that are used to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, module, or course. Formative assessments are for learning, while summative assessments are of learning and do not contribute to credit points…
Part four of the toolkit covers designing and constructing knowledge. There are a range of important factors that are covered within this section of the toolkit, which you should consider when planning and designing your hybrid learning course…
Apple have curated several short videos to help discover how the Accessibility Features built into your Apple devices can help you do more. These features include Speak Screen, Assistive Touch and custom commands with voice control…
As we continue our journey in the planning and designing for delivery of courses as part of a hybrid model, we must keep in mind that principles of good assessment design such as equitable and appropriate assessment methods, clear and transparent criteria, and timely feedback, remain key considerations…
Personal Tutoring at Teesside University provides a consistent, equitable and structured approach for all students to pastoral, general academic and professional support. With relation to providing professional support, Student Futures have pulled together some top tips…
Part three of the toolkit covers structuring your content. It is important that you consider the structure of your material. Hybrid learning is not as simple as just shifting existing materials online, some aspects may not work in the same way that they used to. Simply uploading materials and activities online is not an effective way of conducting learning in this environment…
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). We have begun to cover each part of the toolkit in our daily blogs, in order to provide a brief overview of how to use the toolkit…
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…
