The 2024 iteration of the annual ESLTIS conference was hosted by the University of St. Andrews with a broad theme of ‘Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship.’ In reality, the two days of the conference covered a wide range of issues both from the...
Rebecca Oldfield attended the 2024 Association for Learning Technology (ALT) conference held in Manchester. ALT’s Annual Conference is the UK’s foremost conference for professionals working with Learning Technologies.
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.
Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez and William Tayler discuss how they integrate Instagram as a complementary tool to their teaching to introduce research-led teaching activities, increase student engagement, and relate teaching to students’ real lives in economics education.
Craig Thomas (SEED) used virtual reality headsets in a seminar setting to engage students in an immersive outer space experience.
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.
With the assistance of a student facilitator, Hannah Cobb (SALC) ran archaeology lab sessions simultaneously for in-person and online students. Read how they went about it, the benefits, and students’ feedback.
Paul Armstrong and Stephen Rayner (SEED) use e-Portfolio tool PebblePad to allow space for reflection and to provide regular interaction and feedback on their international programme.
Using Matterport technology, the Humanities eLearning team, alongside Music Department colleagues, developed an online induction module for students, including a virtual tour of the Martin Harris Centre.
Noelle Dückmann Gallagher (SALC) describes how she uses annotation exercises to increase student participation in seminars.
