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Looking for creative ideas to engage students? Wondering how to incorporate technology into your teaching? We have a brand new podcast for you!
The Teaching with Tech Podcast is a podcast produced by the Technology Enhanced Learning department at the University of Sussex.
It can be found here:
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To start the new academic year, Technology Enhanced Learning have revamped our programme of staff development workshops with a brand new list of sessions for the Autumn term.
From ‘Learning by creating with smartphones’ to ‘Augmented reality and virtual reality in the classroom’ this range of workshops aims to provide you with the tools and ideas to help you make the most of technology in your teaching and prepare for the term ahead.
This term’s workshops pick up on themes that we have been hearing about across campus for example the implementation of the flipped learning approach or how to better engage international students. Below are three new workshops that we have picked out to tell you more about: Read more ›
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Whether we talk about digital skills, digital literacy or digital capabilities there is no doubt that students need to develop their use and understanding of digital tools (see Digital Skills for the UK Economy).
Don’t be misled by talk of the ‘digital native’ who by virtue of being born in the internet era has an innate understanding and ability to use technologies.
Just because students own smartphones and use social media to communicate with their friends doesn’t mean that they can use digital tools professionally, critically evaluate them and make informed decisions about online security, identity and digital wellbeing. Read more ›
This week we are handing over the blog to Daniel Vince-Archer, Course Coordinator in Undergraduate Business and Management.
Daniel has recently created a number of ‘how to’ screen capture videos using VideoStudio X9. You will find VideoStudio X9 in your Software Centre.
Over to you, Daniel.
“I hear, and I forget; I see, and I know; I do, and I understand” – ancient Chinese proverb.
Over the past six months, the course administration team here in the School of Business, Management & Economics (BMEc) has been collaboratively producing a series of ‘how-to’ guides. These document how the team carries out the administrative tasks and processes needed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in BMEc to run as effectively and efficiently as possible. Read more ›
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In this post we’ll look at technology that can help you or your students to learn a new language.
We’ve covered the popular language app, Duolingo, previously in Gamifying language learning.
But what other digital tools and social networks are available to help you learn? Read more ›
In our recent post Making learning accessible through technology, Tab Betts (@MrTabKey) took us through some valuable tools that promote inclusivity, productivity and help overcome what are for some significant barriers to learning.
Dr David Sloan – UX Research Lead, The Paciello Group
A growing range of free content creation tools (e.g. WordPress) and intuitive social media platforms (e.g Facebook) have opened up web authoring to the masses, but as non-experts in web content creation this can inadvertently result in the introduction of accessibility challenges. Read more ›
Requirements gathering, sounds easy. Ask people what they want and gather their answers together. But how do you know you’ve got the right information?
People are creatures of habit and it’s harder than it may seem to take 
yourself out of the here and now. Not everyone is a natural futurist. Read more ›
How can we make learning easier for everyone?
We all experience barriers to learning, but for some of us these challenges mean that we require additional support in order to complete everyday tasks pertaining to work or study.
While everyone working in education has a responsibility to promote inclusivity and make learning as accessible as possible, it is also important to recognise that accessibility tools can be used by anyone to increase their productivity.
Here at the University of Sussex, we recently invited Alistair McNaught from the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) to deliver a workshop on how technology can enable us to increase productivity and overcome barriers to learning.
This blog post will attempt to summarise some of the most important tools introduced in this workshop and provide some brief suggestions about how these could be used in academic contexts. Read more ›
