Designing Learning Experiences on Blackboard Ultra

M4.21

Blackboard Ultra is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a modern, responsive platform, designed to function on all devices (including mobile), and is used for all our campus taught courses. A series of monthly institution-wide sessions aimed at colleagues in Schools understand the basics of Blackboard Ultra and get to grips with the features they will be expected to use when setting up and delivering modules and assessing learning.

AI in Education

M4.19 Middlesbrough Tower, Teesside University

A facilitative workshop for academic staff and professional services staff across the University, to come together to discuss the affordances of AI in Education, how it can be utilized in the classroom with students, how we can build AI literacies for staff and students and the efficiencies of AI in our daily roles.

Academic Transformation Programme for Online Learning

MS Teams

The Online Learning Designers contribute towards positioning Teesside University as a sector-leading catalyst for innovation and change, preparing the institutional terrain for the high impact adoption of Online Learning. For all online learning courses, the Academic Transformation Programme is an integral part of preparing for the course approvals process and the journey from course approvals to course launch.

LTExChange Symposium Event – 3. “The Connected Student – The Value of Student-Staff Partnership Work in Preparing for a Globally Connected World”

MS Teams

The annual LTExChange Symposia Series will bring together and engage key stakeholders to support new thinking and share practice innovations as we consider what it means to be a truly “Connected University” in what is an increasingly uncertain higher education landscape. Through the series we will be considering, more specifically, what it means for the university, staff and students to be ‘globally connected’ and how we can prepare our staff and students to adapt and develop ‘socially and ethically engaged’ approaches to learning that will meet future challenges.

Introduction to Academic Workload at TU

MS Teams

This session will introduce academic staff to the Academic Workload Management Framework (AWMF) along with the process of workload planning, publication and acceptance of workload allocations.