Jibin He from SSED came to visit us asking about using a stylus for his iPad. As he works with a lot of equations and scientific notation, to be able to write these more naturally would be very advantageous…
Innovative Curriculum Design & Development webinar
Hosted by the University of Hertfordshire, the Teaching Excellence Alliance webinar is designed to enable the sharing of good practice and discuss challenges associated with the periodic review and validation of programmes….
Staff and Student feedback on ReView
ReView (powered by Panopto) allows lectures and teaching sessions taking place in equipped rooms to be recorded and then accessed by students at a later date through Blackboard. Recorded sessions can include seminars, tutorials, laboratory sessions and practice-based sessions as well as the more traditional lectures. The same ReView system also allows a wide range of learning and teaching materials to be recorded, which can provide additional resources for students…
The Promoting Teaching Excellence Conference – Book your place!
We are pleased to announce that the ‘Promoting Teaching Excellence’ Learning and Teaching Enhancement Conference will take place in The Curve on Monday 26th June and Tuesday 27th June 2017. The two-day conference is designed to bring staff and students together to explore current issues under the broad heading of ‘Promoting Teaching Excellence’.
Upcoming Sessions to Support Your Learning and Teaching Needs
The Academic Registry – LTE team offers a number of professional development opportunities for academic staff. Our CPD sessions are especially designed to meet the needs of our academic staff…
Is technology a gimmick?
I quite like this post on the ISTE website asking “Is technology a gimmick in your classroom?” It gives a reasonably useful set of yes/no questions to answer, and then you add up the yeses at the end to get a
Good Practice Guide to Quizzes
This guide takes a look at some of the pedagogic implications of using quizzes in your on-line module. It’s not a technical document, but will hopefully stimulate some ideas and thoughts about using quizzes. http://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://blogs.tees.ac.uk/lteonline/files/2015/02/PedagogyGuideQuizzes1.pdf&embedded=truePedagogyGuideQuizzes
Good Practice Guide to Discussion Boards
This document takes a look at different uses and the pedagogic implications of using discussion boards in your module. Whilst it is not a technical document, it does focus on the pros and cons of the discussion boards provided in
Good Practice Guide to Blogs
The following document explores the uses of blogs and journals in an on-line module. It is not meant to be a technical guide, and it focuses more on the pedagogy of using these tools. Whilst not specifically technical, it is