Panos Sarantopoulos (AMBS) shares how using Blackboard quizzes regularly, alongside forums and drop-in sessions, enhances learning.
Category: Enhancing Learning with Technology
Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Valley of the Kings
Nicky Nielsen (SALC) shows us how he used Virtual Reality to take his students on a tour of the tomb of Ramesses VI in Egypt.
Driving student engagement with financial news
Chris Godley (AMBS) explains how he used the ForceRank app in weekly sessions to drive student engagement with financial news and current affairs.
Active language learning with VoiceThread
Sandra Torres (SALC) describes how she used VoiceThread (VT) to engage students in active language learning during asynchronous teaching. VT was used to present content, develop communicative skills using interactive tasks and to provide formative feedback.
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.
Workflows for better Zooming and lecture recording
Alex Gunz (AMBS) rereports on how he uses Open Broadcast Software (OBS) to build and deliver presentations asynchronously that integrate multiple applications in a fluid and articulate manner.
Capturing and reflecting on individual learning journeys through a photographic competition
SEED academics Loretta Anthony-Okeke, Heather Cockayne, Susan Dawson and Zhuo Min Huang describe a student experience event in which MA students in MIE were asked to reflect on their learning journey throughout the year and choose a photo they had taken to represent those reflections accompanied by a written commentary.
Group activities in breakout rooms and interactive online teaching
Following great student feedback, Razieh Zandieh shares the synchronous and asynchronous activities which helped to enhance social interaction amongst students, and shape groups for group assignments.
Using an Online Interactive Textbook for Content Delivery
In this case study, Ralf Becker (SoSS) describes his use of an online textbook-type resource (incorporating Mobius) which was used in a large Mathematics for Economists unit.
Delivering interactive lectures for large student cohorts using Adobe Spark (now Adobe Express)
Nicole Martin and Rosalind Shorrocks (SoSS) show us how they used Adobe Spark to create asynchronous but interactive lectures for a large compulsory level 1 Politics unit.
