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…
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Encouraging engagement in breakout room activities
Tagged with: Engagement, group work, Zoom
Posted in Active learning, Blended learning, Learning Design
Posted in Active learning, Blended learning, Learning Design
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…
5 ways to make groupwork work in your teaching
Learning from academics is important to students’ learning, but so is working with their peers. The types of communication that peer-to-peer work requires provokes forms of motivation, reflection and criticality that cannot be generated any other way. Furthermore, the main…
Canvas Highlights – 2. Groups
Canvas provides lots of opportunities for students to learn together. One of the features that enables this is Groups. This post provides a brief overview of Canvas Groups and suggests some ways in which teachers and learners may want to…
Tagged with: Active learning, Canvas, Collaboration, group work, Instructure, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas
Posted in Canvas
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