Over the coming academic year Technology Enhanced Learning will be working with colleagues from across the academic schools to evaluate Nearpod, an interactive presentation tool new to the University of Sussex. So, what is Nearpod? Nearpod is a tool which…
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Active Learning, Feedback and Learning Spaces – TEL joins in @SussexUni Away Days
Technology Enhanced Learning are always keen to be involved in school specific events and this year we have been pleased to be invited to contribute at many of the academic schools’ teaching and learning away days. These are sessions which…
Tagged with: Events, Interactive teaching, Learning Design, Learning Technology
Posted in Active learning, Events, feedback, Learning Spaces
Posted in Active learning, Events, feedback, Learning Spaces
Take 5 this summer and learn new skills
This summer Technology Enhanced Learning will be relaunching our hugely popular Take 5 series with some exciting new additions to our offer. Take 5 courses are a series of bitesize self-study online tutorials, open to all staff at the University of…
Tagged with: Collaboration, Events
Posted in Mobile learning, Social media, Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Mobile learning, Social media, Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning
Technology Rich Formative Assessment
From Poll Everywhere to Socrative to Google Forms, there is a huge range of tools available for formative assessment both in and out of face-to-face teaching hours. These methods of formative assessment can be extremely useful to gauge students’ understanding,…
Tagged with: App reviews, Events, Interactive teaching, Quizzes, TEL Seminar Series
Posted in App review, External events, Marking and assessment, Polling tools
Posted in App review, External events, Marking and assessment, Polling tools
Gamification using Poll Everywhere’s Segmented Responses
Gamification in education is a pedagogical approach in which elements of games are incorporated into teaching sessions and/or online delivery, with the aim of increasing student engagement. This could be achieved by introducing a competitive element (through, for example, the…
Introducing Canva: an accessible graphic design tool
What is Canva? Canva is an easy-to-use design tool which makes graphic design accessible for learners with all levels of abilities, from complete beginners to experienced designers. Canva’s simple drag and drop function combined with thousands of pre-made layouts enables…
#DIWSussex Makerspaces, conductive ink and more…
As part of Digital Innovation Week 2016 Pollie Barden (@polliepi), Lecturer in Product Design, ran a ‘Makerspace: Light an LED with Pencil, Ink and Paper’ workshop which introduced participants to ways of making simple circuits out of paper, pencils and…
Enhance your PowerPoint presentations with Office Mix
This week we are going to tell you about Office Mix – the much publicised add-on from Microsoft. Office Mix is a free add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint that enables you to transform your slideshows into interactive presentations. The additional features…
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