So you have an idea, process or concept that you want to get across to your students but it isn’t physically possible to demonstrate it in the classroom and just talking to them about it doesn’t do it justice…
Kaltura
Upload, record, manage and deliver video and audio files. Enable students to take video quizzes and record and submit video assignments
Blackboard module run transitions
From main module run to the feedback run and resit run – this post highlights the key action points for module leaders.
Feedback Icons in Blackboard Collaborate webinars
Encouraging students to use the feedback icons not only keeps them engaged, it gives you feedback too
What is Technology Enhanced Learning?
This video helps to answer a common question
BB Student – an app for accessing Blackboard on mobile devices
Find out what students using a smartphone see on Blackboard
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Experience
Collaborate online in real time by synchronous text or voice chat
Using Polling in a Blackboard Collaborate Webinar
One way of making webinars more interactive, engaging and useful for learners is to use polling
FET Blackboard Module Template 2017/18
A review of the template for 2017/18 has been carried out by FET’s Learning and Teaching Student Experience Executive committee.
Free online micro-learning courses for busy educators
TELU is a collection of free online micro-learning courses (“Micro-Lessons”) designed to help busy educators use technology to support their teaching and learning.
CSCT: Shared Approaches to Learning & Teaching (SALT)
Computer Science and Creative Technologies department organised its first Shared Approaches to Learning & Teaching (SALT) session, with a focus on TEL
FET Blackboard Module Template 2016-17
From April 2017, please refer to the FET Blackboard Module Template 2017/18 post. FET’s Learning and Teaching Student Experience Executive committee agreed that there should
Using Augmented Reality to teach Civil Engineering
Nick Simpson, part of the civil and environmental engineering cluster at UWE, has developed Augmented Reality (AR) models for use in the classroom
Interactive learning resources for equipment in labs and studios
Many courses in our faculty involve students using equipment in laboratories and studios – from simple scalpels to much more complex items.
Intelligent Construction Contracts and the Digital Age – a New Module in Development for 2017
This module will seek to define the issues arising from ICs and help educate the next generation of construction professionals
Flipped classroom approach used in Engineering, Design and Maths (EDM) department
Catherine Hobbs and Ben Drew have been using the flipped classroom approach in their teaching for several years now.
Programmatic View of Blackboard
The intention is to provide students with a more integrated student experience and cohort identity
Blended Learning Essentials – a free online course
This free online course is designed to help you understand the benefits of blended learning and how to make more effective use of technology to support your learners.
We won a Green Gown Award!
In 2015 the Learning Innovation Unit developed and delivered UWE’s first MOOC, called Our Green City – and we’ve just won an award for it
Using Lynda.com in your module
Lynda.com has dozens of courses covering the subjects taught in FET, so you’ll probably find material to supplement the modules you teach
Recording your Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
If you attend or deliver a session which contributes to your Continuing Professional Development it’s a good idea to keep a record of your involvement
Using Open Educational Resources (OERs)
OERs are freely available, normally digital assets for research, education and assessment – anything from whole lectures or even courses to images, pictures, software, techniques, sound or films
#1minute CPD – Improve your digital skills one minute at a time
#1minuteCPD is a project to help educators improve their digital skills one minute at a time, one day at a time
Annotating in the classroom 1 – using a visualiser in webinars
How to go about annotation and writing formulae in a staff and student-friendly manner, while delivering a webinar?
Interactive timelines your students will love
Bring a timeline of dates to life with images, videos, maps and web pages
Panopto
Use Panopto to record your lectures and classes while they happen or to record presentations at your desk
PebblePad
PebblePad provides individual and collective online spaces for students and staff to develop, share, reflect on and communicate their learning and achievement
Blackboard
All Blackboard-related information can be accessed from this page. The key source of information on all Blackboard queries is UWE’s Blackboard Support website. Faculty
Xerte
With Xerte you can create interactive, multi-media, accessible learning objects using just a web browser – no need to install any additional software on your computer. Xerte is available for any members of staff in FET to use.
Wikis
How students use lecture capture
This Slideshare highlights some of the ways students use lecture capture technology.
TurningPoint
TurningPoint is polling software that enables students to ‘vote’ or respond to questions in classrooms and lecture theatres using ‘clickers’ and/or smartphones, tablet computers or laptops to make responses. TurningPoint can help make teaching in classrooms and lecture theatres more interactive. It can be used, for example, to survey views, assess understanding, group revision, and to give learners more control of the content or pace of lectures.
Piazza
Piazza is a Q&A and discussion platform designed to simulate real class discussion. It aims to get high quality answers to difficult questions, fast.
Blogs
A blog is a website which usually takes the form of a series of posts arranged in reverse-chronologocal order, i.e. the most recent post appears at the top of the page. Students writing their own blogs, commenting on other people’s blogs, and consulting blogs written by experts in their field are common learning activities in Higher Education today.
The making of a MOOC: Our Green City: Global Challenges, Bristol Solutions
The Faculty delivered its first MOOC in September 2015 with a second run of the course in February 2016. Behind the scenes, members of
Infographic: blended learning
Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics What is your definition of blended learning? Let us know in the comments.
Open Badges – informal learning accreditations
Informal micro credits to encourage and reward participation
Educational Resources for the Built Environment (ERBE)
Educational Resources for the Built Environment (ERBE) produces unique and highly respected educational resources for academic and professional use. ERBE incorporates the Video Project and the Construction Website.
Film and Multimedia Production within the LIU
The Faculty of Environment and Technology is now formally offering in-house film production across all departments.
Blackboard programme sites – guiding principles for organising your site
Introduction Blackboard programme sites are being used widely across the Faculty, with the majority of these sites having developed over a number of years.
Use Twitter in the courses you teach?
It might be a good way to promote active and informal learning and to help learners make connections between academic work and the sector
Blackboard module template – reviews
Review of Sample of all Modules 2016/17 In March 2016, the LIU were asked to conduct a follow-up review on those modules that required
Blogging in Social Geography
In the first semester of 2014/15 I worked with a FET lecturer in Geography and Environmental Management, Sara-Jayne Williams, who teaches on a module called Society, Youth & Ageing. Together we developed a plan whereby students would blog about the subject matter and share their blogs with each other in order to construct subject knowledge as a class.
Use images from Flickr – the legal way
Flickr.com has literally millions of images – and many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, which means
Infographic: How to attribute Creative Commons photos
This infographic illustrates how to attribute photos licensed under Creative Commons correctly. How To Attribute Creative Commons Photos by Foter
Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Collaborate is a system that allows participants to collaborate online in real-time (synchronously). It is available through the module and programme coursesites on the Blackboard. It is particularly useful for delivering online (or virtual) classroom sessions (also called webinars) to distance and work-based learning students.
Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”) | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University
via Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”) | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University. Types of Questions Many instructors see multiple-choice questions as limited to testing students’
‘Flipped’ learning – what is it?
What is flipping? ‘Flipped learning’ or ‘the flipped classroom’ are recent buzz words/phrases in education. Flipping is an approach that comes in two parts:
How Slideshare spoiled my post on Social Media
I’ve been meaning to write an article about social media and learning for along time. I’d planned to write about the benefits of wikis
Piazza – for better communication with and between students
The Piazza environment is more akin to the online social media spaces that students often use outside of those provided by their university to talk about their studies. It feels less like an institutionally provided space and more like a space students can call their own.