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Play and Peer Learning: ideas from beyond the campus
See our video interview with Huddlecraft from UWE’s Festival of Learning.
Learning and Development digital consultation for your team
The Learning and Development (LDC) digital learning consultants are offering a new service to support your team with their digital skills development.
Gamified learning and student motivation
Motivate your students to learn by considering how games engage their players.
What motivates your students?
Understand your students’ motivations to help engage them in their programme.
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Seppo – a new tool for location-based and game-based learning
Seppo is an online tool currently being trialled in FET for location-based learning and game-based learning.
Teams for teaching in 21/22
Things to consider if you are thinking of using Microsoft Teams for teaching and learning on your module.
Next year’s reading lists
For 2021/22: All the guidance you need to know about reading lists in one place
Blackboard Programme Sites – guiding principles
Support for Programme Leaders in setting up new programme sites or reviewing existing ones.
FET Blackboard Module Template 2021/22
It is important that Blackboard content is well structured, easily navigable and clearly labelled – and FET’s module template helps you to do this.
Mentimeter icebreaker activities
These short, engaging activities can be subject-relevant as well as providing a talking point for students.
An introduction to hybrid teaching
A guide for teaching in situations where some of your students are in the physical classroom and others are online.
Making your content items accessible in Blackboard
Some archived, but still useful, content from the old Blackboard Support pages.
Designing your teaching sessions using Laurillard’s learning types
Plan your lessons using a variety of activities to help your students learn.
FET Blackboard Module Template: Copying Content to a New Module Run
IMPORTANT: Please read before setting up your new 2020/21 Blackboard module runs.
Teaching with technology
How-to guides, best practice, tips and case studies to help you create engaging, active learning experiences.
Play and Peer Learning: ideas from beyond the campus
See our video interview with Huddlecraft from UWE’s Festival of Learning.
Gamified learning and student motivation
Motivate your students to learn by considering how games engage their players.
What motivates your students?
Understand your students’ motivations to help engage them in their programme.
How learning happens with Seppo
Seppo can help us to achieve the strategic aims of providing ‘innovative learning strategies and environments’ and ‘experiences of practice-based learning within and outside the University’.
Making the most of the Calendar in Blackboard
Help students plan their work by using the calendar tool in Blackboard.
Seppo – a new tool for location-based and game-based learning
Seppo is an online tool currently being trialled in FET for location-based learning and game-based learning.
Digital Accessibility
Collection of LIU articles
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Collection of LIU articles
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UWE’s Learning Design website
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