The Learning Design team have supported a number of units and programmes across the faculty. In this post we share some examples and feedback from academic colleagues.
Category: Teaching Ideas
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.
Developing Student assessment literacy though Peer assessment
Anonymous peer to peer review, even without students commenting on each other’s work is an effective way of developing skills such as writing style and structure in essay writing. Jenni Rose (AMBS) shares how students can also gain confidence in themselves from this process and become connected independent learners.
My Passport to Success! – Empowering Students in Higher Education through Critical Self 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.
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.
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.