Scenario based learning design

Over the summer, I worked with Amanda Griffiths (Student Wellbeing Manager) at the University of Sussex to develop “My Wellbeing” – a bitesize online induction course aimed at all students within the university.

This used a scenario-based learning approach to educate students on prevention and intervention within the context of health, safety and student wellbeing and to raise awareness of available help and support. This article will explore the approaches used to design, conceptualise and produce the resource.  Read more ›

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#DIWSussex Makerspaces, conductive ink and more…

As part of Digital Innovation Week 2016 Pollie Barden (@polliepi), Lecturer in Product Photo of Pollie BardenDesign, 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 conductive ink. We decided to find out more about Pollie’s teaching practices both in the community and at Sussex. The interview is edited for brevity and clarity.  Read more ›

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Keep calm and use technology #DIWSussex

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I recently wrote How to overcome barriers when using tech in your teaching.

The post inspired me to think of more ways to introduce technology into your teaching, especially if you are new to using technology, worried, reluctant – or all three.  Read more ›

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Exploring spherical photography in Digital Innovation Week #DIWSussex

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There are many exciting events lined up for Digital Innovation Week which began yesterday (Monday 28th November 2016) and runs through until Friday.

Today, we are looking at the Spherical Photography session which will be held on Friday 2nd December 2016, 10.00-11.00am.

The workshop for staff and students will be led by Dr Ben Jackson, who describes himself as ‘one of the library’s contributions to the new Sussex Humanities Lab project’.  Read more ›

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Learning in the post-digital age #DIWSUSSEX

Digital Innovation Week

Digital Innovation Week 28 November – 2 December 2016

In  this first of five blog posts that we’ll be publishing as part of Digital Innovation Week here at the University of Sussex we interview Professor Peter Hartley ahead of an invited seminar he will be delivering here at the University on Tuesday the 29th of November alongside Professor Keith Smyth. The title of their seminar is ‘Opportunities and Challenges in the Post-Digital Age’ and we started by asking Peter exactly what he meant by the term ‘post-digital’.  Read more ›

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5 Tips for Multimedia Enhanced Teaching and Learning

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Image source: CC0 Public Domain. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

There is an updated version of this post.

How can we use multimedia content to make learning more effective? The traditional approach to teaching in higher education tends to limit learners to reading texts, listening to lectures and discussing ideas in seminars. However, we learn better, and are more interested in learning tasks, when information is presented in diverse ways – so why not try something different?  Read more ›

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Understanding Creative Commons Licences

As members of a University, we all enjoy a fair amount of freedom to reuse and distribute copyrighted material to our colleagues and students, under the framework of our Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) and Educational Recording Agency (ERA) licensing agreements.

Specific exceptions to copyright even allow us to copy works not covered by CLA, NLA and ERA, within certain limits.

However, whilst under these exceptions we might, for example, be able to use a copyright image to directly illustrate an educational point, we don’t have carte blanche to use it in a more general illustrative way within our teaching materials: a Bleddyn Butcher photograph of Nick Cave might justifiably be used to examine the iconography within images of popular musicians, but using it as the background to a presentation slide titled “looking to the future” would probably be seen as a breach 1 Read more ›

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How to overcome barriers when using tech in your teaching

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Today we are looking at the barriers that can exist for some when using technology in teaching.

The use of technology in lectures and seminars can help to engage students, create opportunities for flipped learning and make resources more accessible and inclusive.

Below we consider three common technology fears and how to overcome them.  Read more ›

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