Tools and Resources

An approach the FHS TEL team take is asking “where is your pain?” In other words, what are the: challenges in your teaching challenges for your students’ learning …that TEL might address? Some digital education projects don’t give enough to what they are trying…

Writing for belonging helping students use writing to develop a sense of belongingThe Staying Inn Based on virtual “pub nights” c Led by hosts or ‘landladies’ but involving other participantsEscape Rooms Escape rooms are increasingly used in an education context, and can either be…

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….

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….

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…

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…