Teesside 2025: Meeting the needs of the online learner – Future Facing Learning conference March 7th The Higher Education landscape is changing, it has been for over a decade now, both in England, the UK and across the world. This
Microsoft Teams: To collaborate or not to collaborate?
Microsoft Teams, which is part of the Future Facing Learning toolkit, supports collaboration and co-authoring. When you add a Word, PowerPoint or Excel file to a team it’s automatically enabled to allow you to work together with other team users in real time on the same file…
Getting the most out of assessment and feedback – staff and student perspectives
There is no doubt that many students and staff would prefer university assessment to be different to what they currently experience. Our collective attention when it comes to teaching and assessment tends to be on educational effectiveness and efficiency, rather than on the extent to which our approaches and strategies of choice support diverse and sustainable ways of knowing that honour and empower learner experience and development…
Exploring Practice-based Innovations using Microsoft OneNote in the Higher Ed Classroom
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!…
FFL Curriculum Development and Teaching Excellence
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…
Leave the classroom and go mobile with Microsoft Sway
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…
Future Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Space, technology and pedagogy
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…
Enhancing Q&As with the FFL toolkit
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…
Different ways to view Sway presentations
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…
Using Microsoft Sway for Course Handbooks
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….