TEL Bites Rebuild

A set of categories used to track which pages need review/can be deleted/are good to go.

HoloLens hybrid lab teaching in the Veterinary School

Julie Dickson (Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Integrated Structure) faced the challenge of teaching laboratory sessions to students unable to attend in person, alongside those present in the lab. A colleague gave Julie a Microsoft HoloLens (mixed reality) headset. At the start of the timetabled lab session, Julie used the HoloLens and Microsoft Teams to work

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Setting up a unit Teams space to work alongside Blackboard – video walkthrough

Jane Williams and Mike Cameron deliver a unit on the Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals programme (see separate story). In 2021 the course will use a unit Teams space alongside a Blackboard course for the first time. Blackboard delivers course materials, reading lists and the assessment. Teams offer live teaching and ongoing discussion and

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Evaluating TEL

There are a number of resources and toolkits that can help you evaluate TEL interventions. A few of these are linked below. Imperial College Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship – Education Evaluation toolkit. The pages cover tools and resources that you can use for evaluating education in general, but that can be applied

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Ideas for interactive learning in synchronous teaching

Some possible recipes for dialogue and feedback as part of an online webinar These ideas use simple tools like the built-in voting, breakout groups and discussion boards. You can do much more with additional tools like Mentimeter and Padlet (see the separate materials on tools and designing learning sequences). These are just suggestions, and you

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Building online communities and engagement – links and quick reads

Five Ways to Build Community in Online Classrooms, 2018. Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. How to Forge a Strong Community in an Online Classroom n.d. Edutopia. Papadopoulou, A., 2020. How to Build an Online Learning Community (In 2020) [WWW Document]. Learnworlds. Seth, A., erson, 2020. Building Community in Asynchronous Online Courses. Duke

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