In September 2017 Technology Enhanced Learning launched a pilot of Nearpod, an interactive presentation tool. The pilot is intended to assess how useful this tool can be for staff and whether Nearpod has a positive effect on students’ learning experiences.…
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Nearpod Mid-year update, Sussex staff and student views so far
Tagged with: A - Z of apps, Collaboration, Engagement, Interactive teaching, Quizzes
Posted in Mobile learning, Polling tools
Posted in Mobile learning, Polling tools
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
Developing students’ discipline-specific vocabulary.
Every discipline has its own specialist terms and concepts. As students progress in their studies they learn the relevant language, but when they begin their studies there are lots of words that they are unsure about. Developing students’ fluency in…
Tagged with: glossary, Interactive teaching, Language learning, Learning Design, polling, Study Direct
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools, Study Direct
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools, Study Direct
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…
Tech for active learning in large groups.
How can we promote and manage active learning during lectures? How can we measure student understanding and make sure that students are engaging with material? In 1972, Donald Bligh (1) undertook an extensive study on the use of the lecture…
Tagged with: Collaboration, Engagement, Interactive teaching, Learning, Learning Design, Learning Technology
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools
Get even more from Poll Everywhere – LaTeX, Surveys and more…
Polling and quizzing tools can be a great way to increase interactivity and engagement in classes, in particular in large lectures. Poll Everywhere is a useful tool which takes advantage of the mobile devices that students already use, affords students…
Tagged with: Mobile phones, PollEveywhere, Quizzing, Voting
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Learning Design, Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Plickers! An easy-to-use quizzing tool
The TEL team recently demonstrated Plickers at the annual University of Sussex Teaching and Learning Conference 2016. The theme of the conference was inclusivity. To build on this theme, we demonstrated how to use technology to encourage participation with two TEL…
Tagged with: Engagement, Inclusion, Plickers, Quizzes, Quizzing
Posted in Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning
Encouraging student engagement through interactive lectures
With large lecture sizes there is always the risk that some students may become disengaged. Bringing interactivity to the lecture setting through the use of mobile student response systems can contribute towards solving this problem and, used effectively, can encourage…
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