Chiachi Ming, Research Associate on our Student-centred design project, reports upon working with the Library’s student team to explore how students can feed-forward in the design of their virtual learning environment.
Category: Active Learning and Student Engagement
Sparking meaningful conversations for student engagement: Visualising the journey of learning design
Chiachi Ming is a service designer who has joined the University’s Faculty of Humanities to work on our ‘Student-centred design’ project, exploring the potential of human-centred design in Higher Education. In this blog she reflects of the power of visualisation in articulating and creating student learning journeys.
Cementing a community of learning, herbs, bag painting, spoon throwing and a silent disco
Claire McGourlay (SoSS) shares her reflections from Connections in Legal Education Fest 2024
Advance HE: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024, Nottingham Trent University, 2 July
Mark Baker, Department of History, shares his thoughts from the Advance HE: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024
Co-creating and co-delivering resources with students
Inspiring a large cohort with varying levels of understanding can be challenging. Mario Pezzino (SoSS) explains how co-creating and co-delivering alongside students boosted student engagement and trust in the syllabus.
Why we went on a spacewalk: Supporting intended learning outcomes with virtual reality (VR) in seminars
Craig Thomas (SEED) used virtual reality headsets in a seminar setting to engage students in an immersive outer space experience.
Using Virtual Reality experiences for Psychology of Education
Sarah MacQuarrie (SEED) used Virtual reality headsets as part of a lecture based around visual perception. Students used an app called ‘Notes on Blindness’, an immersive, interactive storytelling experience which creates a cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.
Better seminar participation through annotation exercises
Noelle Dückmann Gallagher (SALC) describes how she uses annotation exercises to increase student participation in seminars.
Interactivity via Whiteboards
In this brief review Ross Jones (SEED) explains how he successfully uses Whiteboard features in live online lectures to encourage student participation and engagement in class.
Authentic immersive reading with social annotations
Ana Niño (SALC) describes how she enhances immersive reading and reading comprehension with Hypothes.is – the social annotation tool.