Interested in ideas about how you can incorporate Microsoft OneNote and the Class Notebook into your modules and learning and teaching activities? Then we might have just the session for you at the forthcoming LTE Conference, taking place on Thursday 7th March 2019!…
At the forthcoming Teesside University Future Facing Learning Conference one of the workshops will develop further understanding around the Future Facing Learning (FFL) themes and consider how our learning and teaching practices can contribute to FFL. The Curriculum Review Tool will be shared for colleagues to use at module and course level to help inform and shape practices…
The following is an example of how the Future Facing Learning toolkit specifically Microsoft Sway was integrated into a seminar task to provide more active learning. The module ‘Introduction to Physical Activity’ is level 4 and ran by Alison Innerd a Senior Lecturer in Sports and Exercise within the School of Health and Social Care…
To mark the publication of Advance HE’s Future Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Space, technology and pedagogy case study series, Dr. Sam Elkington (Teesside University, formerly of Advance HE), outlines in his latest blog post for Advance HE, the significance of working to better understand the interplay between space, technology and learning as an important, but overlooked dimension of teaching…
The following is an example of how supporting students was addressed through the Future Facing Learning toolkit of apps. The need to quickly provide feedback to students was addressed through an asynchronous Q&A space within Padlet enhanced with video recording with Panopto app of live explanations provided within class…
Microsoft Sway is for creating online presentations and interactive reports. Sway content is presented online and has numerous ways to customise viewing and navigation even if you didn’t create the Sway yourself. If you have not used Sway before here is a Sway presentation example for you to view…
Quite often, course handbooks or module guides develop into (unavoidably) lengthy Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF documents that students find quite difficult to navigate or engage. Cath Turner, a Senior Lecturer from School of Health and Social Care had a similar issue with her course BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy….
Assessment of student learning is a fundamental function of higher education. It is the means by which we assure and express academic standards and has a vital impact on student behaviour, staff time, university reputations, league tables and, most of all, students’ future success. Aligned to the University’s Future Facing Learning Strategy, the Future Facing Assessment and Feedback Learning Lab is designed to support course leaders and teams to develop sustainable, manageable and effective assessment and feedback for their course…
Curriculum enhancement is a central feature of the Academic Registry CPD offer. Aligned to the University’s Future Facing Learning Strategy, Teesside 2020 and to the UK Professional Standards Framework, the curriculum enhancement workshops are designed to provide academic staff with
A little while ago, Microsoft made some very interesting developments to their wonderful Office Lens app. We will look at those enhancements in a minute but first, let’s take a quick look at Office Lens. If you’ve not used it before, it’s a very handy app that can “scan” a variety of materials: whiteboards, documents, business cards and so on..
