Shirley Jenner, Natalie Cunningham and Jaco Renken attended a Symposium, a Manchester-Melbourne University Partnership Panel Event and the Development Studies Association of Australia (DSAA) Conference in Melbourne this summer.
Category: Digital Skills
‘Real enough’: Testing and refining ideas about how we support staff in the move to using Canvas.
by HUM eLearning | Oct 17, 2024 | Digital Skills, Good Practice, Learning Blog, Project Shift, Reflection
In this blog, Sarah Dyer and Lauren Starr describes a recent workshop held as part of Project Shift. Project Shift is a co-design project where the Humanities eLearning team are working with academics and professional services colleagues to create the support that will be offered in the move to using Canvas as our Central Learning Environment (CLE).
Groupwork to produce a collaborative radio programme/podcast
by HUM eLearning | Jul 1, 2021 | Assessment and Feedback, Digital Skills, Good Practice
Melanie Giles (SALC) discusses how she set up small online groups to deliver assessed ‘podcast’ style pieces of cutting-edge research while developing student collaborative and employability experiences.
Assessed group presentations with VoiceThread
by HUM eLearning | May 11, 2021 | Assessment and Feedback, Collaboration and Group Work, Digital Skills, Good Practice
Wendy Wild (AMBS) explains how she used VoiceThread for group assessment, and explores the many benefits and positive feedback received as a result.
Digital timelines and online exhibitions – assessing the aesthetics and politics of Italian Fascism
by HUM eLearning | Mar 10, 2021 | Assessment and Feedback, Digital Skills, Good Practice
In this case study, Francesca Billiani (SALC) discusses using digital timelines in her course Aesthetics and Politics of Italian Fascism.
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