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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….
Low bandwidth teaching
When students are at a distance, there are things we can do to help address students’ technological limitations .There can be tensions between the need for immediacy of interaction and use of high bandwidth video and the technology and the broadband available to them….
12 principles of multimedia learning
Meyer’s Multimedia Learning theory suggests we can design multimedia materials to best effect by adhering to 12 principles: Coherence Principle – exclude extraneous words, pictures and sounds.Signalling Principle – include cues that highlight the organisation of the essential materialRedundancy Principle – exclude redundant material…
Making video content more engaging using VideoScribe
As part of the pivot to online teaching (see separate story) Kaitlin Wade and Penny Whiting created short videos on particular topics as a complement to face-to-face teaching. Students engaged with the concepts through the Videos, which were also covered in classes. To make…
Three uses of Padlet in undergraduate dental education (Julie Mallinson)
Lockdown offered time to be more creative and inventive with teaching, which has proved rewarding for both teachers and students. Julie Mallinson used Padlet thoughtfully in three different ways. Her approach to Padlet is uncomplicated and accessible, and her results have been refreshing and…
Community
Staff Digital Champions Our faculty has a number of digital champions who, with digital champions in other Faculties, contribute to the university’s continuing developments in blended and online learning. This is an informal network with staff contributing their own expertise and perspectives, informing the…