This post aims to provide some quick tips and tricks to help improve student engagement during online teaching sessions. We understand that group sizes mean different things to different people, a small group in one discipline may be considered a…
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Encouraging engagement in breakout room activities
Zoom breakout rooms can be a great way of facilitating interaction between students during online teaching sessions. They can be particularly useful when teaching large groups, when the possibility of student contributions is more limited. However, there is a danger…
Tagged with: Engagement, group work, Zoom
Posted in Active learning, Blended learning, Learning Design
Posted in Active learning, Blended learning, Learning Design
Co-created marking criteria
Over this summer the University of Sussex Business School embarked on a project to co-create new marking criteria for assessments within their courses. This project saw students, academics and professional services staff come together to collaborate on and produce a…
Combining Face to Face and Online Teaching
Technology Enhanced Learning recently hosted a webinar which aimed to share a range of simple but powerful approaches to combining face to face and online teaching. The session featured five contributors from across the different academic Schools who shared examples,…
Posted in Blended learning, Learning Design
Online methods for 6 types of learning
With the publication of the University of Sussex’s Online Learning Baseline, a flexible guide designed to establish minimum expectations for all taught modules, we know that staff will be keen to start work on their 20/21 modules. We wanted to…
Tagged with: Blended learning, Online Activities
Posted in Active learning, Blended learning, Learning Design
Posted in Active learning, Blended learning, Learning Design
My working from home desk
With the sudden move to working from home we all had to quickly adapt to working in new spaces, both online and physical. We thought we would share how someone in Technology Enhanced Learning has set up their home working…
Posted in Case Study
New academic reading skills resources for students
When students arrive at university, and throughout their studies, one activity they may find challenging is reading academic texts. This may be due to a number of reasons: students may not have any prior experience of reading this type of…
Collaborative assessment: Group submissions in Canvas
Canvas features a range of useful tools that facilitate group and collaborative work between students. These tools include collaborative Pages, Collaborations – online shared Google Docs or Office 365 documents, and Canvas Groups. In this post we are going to…
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