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Category: Employability

A picture paints a thousand words?

by HUM eLearning | Dec 4, 2024 | Employability, Learning Blog

Jenni Rose (AMBS) explores the power of drawing for personal and professional development.

Cementing a community of learning, herbs, bag painting, spoon throwing and a silent disco

by HUM eLearning | Sep 11, 2024 | Academic Advising, Accessibility and Inclusivity, Active Learning and Student Engagement, Assessment and Feedback, Collaboration and Group Work, Employability, Learning Blog, Reflection, Student Voice, Virtual, Augmented and Extended Reality

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

by HUM eLearning | Sep 10, 2024 | Accessibility and Inclusivity, Active Learning and Student Engagement, Artificial Intelligence, Assessment and Feedback, Employability, Learning Blog, Learning Design

Mark Baker, Department of History, shares his thoughts from the Advance HE: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024

My Passport to Success! – Empowering Students in Higher Education through Critical Self Reflection

by HUM eLearning | Apr 7, 2022 | Academic Advising, Employability, Good Practice, Reflection

Reimala Sivalingam and Jennifer Rose (AMBS) describe how they used an Academic Advising workbook to enable students to thrive by fully supporting their academic, well-being and employability needs.

Co-designing the curriculum with students and employers

by HUM eLearning | Jun 28, 2021 | Employability, Good Practice, Learning Design

Ali Owrak (AMBS) presents his journey and experience of delivering a co-designed curriculum with both employers and students’ active engagement, reviewing role of student and employer collaboration in teaching.

Delivering Peer Review Online

by HUM eLearning | Mar 12, 2021 | Assessment and Feedback, Employability, Good Practice, Peer Learning

In this case study, Miriam Firth & Bobbie Dutton (SEED) explain how they adapted their previously face to face peer assessment task for blended delivery.

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ELSTIS24: Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship, University of St. Andrews, July 2024 10th December 2024
A picture paints a thousand words? 4th December 2024
Learning, Connecting, and Innovating: Reflections from the 7th ESLTIS Conference 4th December 2024
Reflections on the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Conference 2024 19th November 2024
Transformative Pedagogy? Creating online and blended learning spaces for Leaders in the Global Development Sphere 14th November 2024
Support & Information link in all SoSS Units – 14/11/2024 14th November 2024
Think Outside the Box: Co-Creating Student-Centered Support Services and User Experience for Canvas 21st October 2024
Reflections on the ESLTIS 2024 Conference: A Journey in Educational Innovation 17th October 2024
‘Real enough’: Testing and refining ideas about how we support staff in the move to using Canvas. 17th October 2024
Turnitin Error – 27/07/2024 14th October 2024
Sparking meaningful conversations for student engagement: Visualising the journey of learning design 2nd October 2024
Reflecting on the ESLTIS24 Conference: Developing Educator Identities and Building Academic Communities 17th September 2024
Exploring New Developments in Student Surveys and Campus Design in Vienna 17th September 2024
Thinking, Collaborating and Growing: A reflection on attending the International Society for Music Education conferences and its impact on my own teaching practices 11th September 2024
Cementing a community of learning, herbs, bag painting, spoon throwing and a silent disco 11th September 2024
Advance HE: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024, Nottingham Trent University, 2 July 10th September 2024
Box of Broadcasts Error – 09/09/2024 RESOLVED 9th September 2024
Plots and storyboards: What visualising learning journeys revealed as I designed a new programme. 27th August 2024
Adobe Express Error – 12/08/2024 RESOLVED 12th August 2024
Instagram: Transforming Higher Education Engagement Beyond the Classroom 2nd July 2024
Learning Design Case Studies 3rd January 2024
Co-creating and co-delivering resources with students 7th November 2023
Why we went on a spacewalk: Supporting intended learning outcomes with virtual reality (VR) in seminars 10th October 2023
Autograder for programming assignments via Gradescope 26th July 2023
Using Virtual Reality experiences for Psychology of Education 25th July 2023
Body Art, Apps and Parties: Creative Knowledge Translation 29th June 2023
Assessment As Learning: Collaborative Peer Assessment 26th April 2023
Dual delivery of archaeology lab sessions 16th March 2023
Why is their work better than mine? Using a showcase event to harness the power of conversation, comparative judgement, and self-generated feedback 2nd March 2023
Using an e-portfolio tool for reflection and communication in global education 16th February 2023
Using Matterport to create a virtual student induction 12th January 2023
Better seminar participation through annotation exercises 5th August 2022
Engaging students with innovative group assessment creating academic posters 20th July 2022
The benefits of regular formative Blackboard quizzes 23rd June 2022
Developing Student assessment literacy though Peer assessment 26th May 2022
Developing and Sharing Innovative and Responsive Assessment 11th April 2022
My Passport to Success! – Empowering Students in Higher Education through Critical Self Reflection 7th April 2022
Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Valley of the Kings 22nd March 2022
Driving student engagement with financial news 17th March 2022
Active language learning with VoiceThread 24th February 2022
Virtual Field Trips using Google Earth/Maps 22nd February 2022
Interactivity via Whiteboards 17th February 2022
Authentic immersive reading with social annotations 16th February 2022
Using Padlet to drive student engagement and contributions during online seminars 10th December 2021
Workflows for better Zooming and lecture recording 13th October 2021
Student Perspectives on the Move to Online 8th September 2021
Capturing and reflecting on individual learning journeys through a photographic competition 23rd July 2021
Using Padlet to provide a clear course structure and guide students through an online module 23rd July 2021
Group activities in breakout rooms and interactive online teaching 20th July 2021
Using an Online Interactive Textbook for Content Delivery 20th July 2021
Providing student support via live instant chat 8th July 2021
Groupwork to produce a collaborative radio programme/podcast 1st July 2021
Co-designing the curriculum with students and employers 28th June 2021
Delivering interactive lectures for large student cohorts using Adobe Spark (now Adobe Express) 22nd June 2021
Recording short pre-lecture video clips to introduce lectures and key themes 1st June 2021
Delivering Teaching Materials with Adobe Spark (now Adobe CCE) 27th May 2021
Using a Spark (now Adobe CCE) to guide preparation for a class 25th May 2021
Using VoiceThread to provide accessible weekly introductions to key course content 25th May 2021
Using Padlet for math tutorials to make classes interactive 21st May 2021
Using peer assessment to improve essay writing skills & understanding of assessment criteria 20th May 2021
Using Adobe Spark (now Adobe CCE) for interactive online lectures 17th May 2021
Using live polling with Mentimeter to increase student engagement and link theory to everyday experiences 13th May 2021
Assessed group presentations with VoiceThread 11th May 2021
Criminal Law Study Buddy Scheme 28th April 2021
Fostering student connection: ‘Business Lunch’ and the Tandem scheme 28th April 2021
Using interactive and engaging online live activities 23rd April 2021
Revising Translation Assessment for Online Examinations 23rd April 2021
Making course unit readings meaningful and purposeful for students 22nd April 2021
Creating social and group connection through a lifeline exercise 26th March 2021
Increasing student engagement with Padlet 24th March 2021
Summative Assessment: Research Posters through Padlet 18th March 2021
Intercultural Zoomery in a time of Covid-19 16th March 2021
Resource Development: moving a traditional face to face activity online 12th March 2021
Delivering Peer Review Online 12th March 2021
Creating a narrative: using Adobe Spark (now CCE Express) to present material 11th March 2021
Delivering synchronous medium size Q&A tutorials effectively using a visualiser and Piazza 11th March 2021
How to get started with recording content videos 11th March 2021
Digital timelines and online exhibitions – assessing the aesthetics and politics of Italian Fascism 10th March 2021
Advanced Video Production Techniques 8th March 2021
Train Yourself: quiz questions to support learning Latin 28th February 2021
Supporting International Students 28th February 2021
Student Marking exercises 27th February 2021
Collaborative Reading using Annotation Software 25th February 2021
Drop-in Sessions Online 24th February 2021
Building Communities of Learning Online 24th February 2021
Using Padlet to enhance the Student Experience 23rd February 2021
How to Effectively Organise Your Blackboard Course Content 18th February 2021
Tour of Engagement Tools and Blackboard Layout on Large Undergraduate Units 9th February 2021
Using Quizzes and Breakout Rooms in Live Sessions 2nd February 2021
My Experience with Discussion Boards 9th September 2020
Summative Quizzes and Continuous Assessment 7th November 2019
Teaching with Twitter: an extension to the learning environment 6th November 2019
Online Journals as a Tool for Learning 6th November 2019