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Tips to help you produce effective videos In this article I would like to share my experience of making effective educational videos, from planning and execution to engaging with your students. Consider the length of your video You are not …
As we move headlong into the world of online learning and teaching keeping ourselves and our students socially engaged becomes of paramount importance. Below are some oldish and new articles that discuss various aspects of not becoming ‘socially distanced’, when …
This guide is intended to give new online teachers a sense of some of the possibilities and the challenges that this environment brings. Online teaching is not the same as face to face teaching, but it also isn’t radically different. …
A few quick suggestions to get you thinking how you might approach online teaching. These are some points I learned from the OU distance learning and teaching course from a few years back. 1 Think about the unit in terms of …
Online Teaching – A Magazine Journalism and Publishing Perspective Read more »
Some suggestions from Mark Ingham to help you think about, plan and deliver your online courses and resources. Post you own suggestions below! Reading …and the Russians used a pencil (short read) https://bit.ly/2WrQM4xUseful blog by James Clay about not using …
From platforms to postcards, what’s the pedagogy? Read more »
When I returned to work the following week after attending this event, the first thing I said to my boss was he’d just spent the best £30 on me this year. It was a day packed full of really useful …
Wikimedia in Education UK Summit 2020 #WikiEdu20 Read more »
It’s been a few years now since I had the Bett show on my “I must go this year” list, but I never quite managed to find the time to go, until this year, I finally had my first Bett …
January’s Talking Teaching event, How can compassionate pedagogy mitigate the causes of racial harassment?, provided an opportunity for participants to reflect on last year’s ERHC report Tackling racial harassment: universities challenged. The session was facilitated by Carole Morrison, an Academic …
At LCC a significant number of undergraduate students leave their courses prematurely, many by the end of their first year. This can be due to a range of factors and complex challenges students face on entering higher education. Some of …
Imagine an analytics dashboard like the one above that could diagnose the health of entire university programmes. This was the premise of a fascinating conference hosted by JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee. Working with genuine data from their partner …