Congratulations to Birgit Loch and her team for winning the best concise paper award at ASCILITE earlier this week for their paper ‘Building a culture of innovation in learning and teaching technologies through an innovators group’, outlining the achievements of the SHE Innovators Group.
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In 2020 Jabed Chowdhury was awarded a small L&T grant from the College of SHE. His project, Capture the Flag, uses gamification to teach cybersecurity students to find security holes (flags) in a vulnerable machine. The student/team with the highest number of flags wins.
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Jason Buccheri and Richard Summers gave a presentation at a recent Innovators meeting on how they have been facilitating Pharmacy classes for students who are either physically present or attending via Zoom. They outline what it took to achieve some hard-won successes in interaction and engagement.
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Matt Felicetti (Engineering) describes how he has created an entire thesis marking workflow using SRES, including thesis submission, blind marking by two reviewers, moderation by the supervisor, provision of feedback to students, and resubmission. SRES is currently being piloted in the College of SHE.
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Did you know since the start of 2021 the LMS has been accessible via a mobile phone app? With more and more students using their mobile phones as study devices, the app is a timely development. Victor Renolds (Ed Services) talks us through the main features of the Moodle (LMS) app.
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Andrew McDonald describes how he has been using a Physics simulation software package purchased with a College Learning & Teaching grant to increase student engagement in online lectures and in groupwork, and even replicate lab experiments in lockdown.
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Find out how Andrew Buldt (Podiatry) and Dilhani Premaratna (Animal, Plant & Soil Sciences) have been improving the quality and efficiency of marking and feedback in their subjects using SRES (Student Relationship Engagement System), which is currently being piloted in the College of SHE.
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We could all do with a bit of time travel every now and again to make the most of a busy schedule. Evan Robertson describes how he has been playing Dr Who for his first-year Chemistry students by watching his past self in video snippets with them while answering their questions live in the chat.
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Education Services are running several workshops including Classroom teaching for mixed mode cohorts (Wed 21 July at 3:30pm), Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Practice Seminar (Thurs 22 July at 10:00am) and PebblePad community of practice (Wed 28 July at 12pm).
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Good news! All the workshops held during Subject Week were recorded and are now available on the intranet. We have also provided a link to the PowerPoint presentations where possible. A big thank you to all our fantastic presenters who were willing to share their ideas and practice.
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