Blogs are all around us on the internet and you may sometimes read posts from popular news blogs without necessarily thinking of them as blogs or formally subscribing to them. For anyone involved in teaching and/or learning, however, there is…
Yearly Archives: 2018
Blogs for academics – 5 great reasons to get involved
Tagged with: Blog, blogging, Researchers, Students, Teaching with tech
Posted in digital skills, Social media
Posted in digital skills, Social media
Open Education Week: Exploring Open Textbooks #OEWeek #OER
This week has been OER Week so it seems an ideal time to be talking about Open Textbooks. This guest post is by Suzanne Tatham, Academic Services Manager (Library). First of all, what is an OER? Here is the Creative Commons…
A short guide to Team-Based Learning
The Technology Enhanced Learning team have recently been exploring and promoting Team-based learning. A teaching approach which is effective for providing students with opportunities for deeper learning and is scalable for large group teaching. Larry Michaelson, a Professor of Management,…
Tagged with: Active learning, flipped learning, tbl, team-based learning
Posted in Active learning, Learning Design
Posted in Active learning, Learning Design
Canvas highlights 4. Rich Content Editor
[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] In this weeks ‘Canvas Highlights’ we take a look at the Rich Content Editor. This represents the set…
Supercharge your LinkedIn profile
During the first week of this term Technology Enhanced Learning teamed up with the Careers and Employability Centre to deliver the online bitesized course ‘Take 5: LinkedIn & your digital identity’ aimed at both staff and students. Here Tim Bradshaw…
Tagged with: Digital footprint, digital identity, LinkedIn
Posted in digital skills, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in digital skills, Technology Enhanced Learning
Canvas highlights 3. Peer Assessment
[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] Continuing our Canvas highlights series, this week we are looking at peer assessment. In Canvas it is possible…
Tagged with: Canvas, Instructure, peer assessment, peer review, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas
Posted in Canvas
G Suite – to share and collaborate on documents and presentations online
Microsoft Office is a suite of programs that I’d imagine most people have encountered, whilst it’s a good suite of programs and all University of Sussex staff have access to a full licence (details on the ITS website ), it…
How do you create stunning visual content for free? Adobe Spark is how.
There are times when you want to have complete creative control over the content you create, and when you are able to spend time on making the perfect image, video or portfolio. There are also times when you need to…
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