Humanities Teaching Academy

Category: Active Learning and Student Engagement

Bridging Academic Excellence with Real-World Practice: The Manchester Museum Collaboration

by HUM eLearning | Jan 21, 2025 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Collaboration and Group Work, Employability, Learning Blog

University of Manchester Marketing students are collaborating with the Manchester Museum on a live project aimed at enhancing audience engagement and community outreach for the museum. Dr Zhiteng Feng (AMBS) shares how this project helps students develop critical skills and provides valuable real-world experience, boosting their confidence and employability.

Learning, Connecting, and Innovating: Reflections from the 7th ESLTIS Conference

by HUM eLearning | Dec 4, 2024 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Artificial Intelligence, International Students, Learning Blog

Kenneth Atuma, Lecturer in Library and Archives Studies, Institute for Cultural Practice, shares his reflections on the 7th Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship (ESLTIS) Conference, which was themed “What Comes Next for Higher Education?”

Transformative Pedagogy? Creating online and blended learning spaces for Leaders in the Global Development Sphere

by HUM eLearning | Nov 14, 2024 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Digital Skills, International Students, Learning Blog, Peer Learning, Reflection, Student Voice

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.

Think Outside the Box: Co-Creating Student-Centered Support Services and User Experience for Canvas

by HUM eLearning | Oct 21, 2024 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Collaboration and Group Work, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Learning Blog, Reflection, Student Voice

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.

Sparking meaningful conversations for student engagement: Visualising the journey of learning design

by HUM eLearning | Oct 2, 2024 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Learning Blog, Learning Design, Reflection

Chiachi Ming is a service designer who has joined the University’s Faculty of Humanities to work on our ‘Student-centred design’ project, exploring the potential of human-centred design in Higher Education. In this blog she reflects of the power of visualisation in articulating and creating student learning journeys.

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

Co-creating and co-delivering resources with students

by HUM eLearning | Nov 7, 2023 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Collaboration and Group Work, Good Practice, Large Cohorts

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

by HUM eLearning | Oct 10, 2023 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice, Virtual, Augmented and Extended Reality

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

by HUM eLearning | Jul 25, 2023 | Active Learning and Student Engagement, Enhancing Learning with Technology, Good Practice, Virtual, Augmented and Extended Reality

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.