Distance learning forum meeting Tuesday 9th March 2021

We are now midway through the second semester, January may have passed some time ago but it is never too late to wish you all a Happy New Year and we hope this message finds you and yours all safe and well. We are still maintaining the DLF meetings to an hour as online fatigue certainly sets in. That said, if anyone wants to stay for a less formal chat after 3, Susie will be round till 3:30.

We are in the process of preparing topics for the next academic year and are certainly looking forward to hearing your stories or experiences with online distance learning perhaps in terms of Student Engagement? Are there any different challenges you or your students are facing? Would you like to share with everyone any new tools that you have used lately? Any new ideas you are hoping to chat about with our university colleagues? Most of all, how we can share our experiences and support one another to enhance our community of learners here at University of Dundee? Let us know how we can support you further by suggesting topics for us to discuss, workshops that will help our colleagues, presentations that will inform our community, and some social time, albeit online.

Our third meeting for this academic year will be on Academic Integrity where we will be looking at both academic and technical perspectives. Some of us are trying to grasp this terminology and what it means to us and our students. We hope at the end of the session we will have a developed a deeper understanding of Academic Integrity and aware of the steps taken by the wider community of University of Dundee to maintain academic integrity.

In this session we will have Bonnie Lynch, Centre of Medical Education (CME) and Emma Duke-Williams, Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning (CTIL) to talk us through the academic and technical perspectives. This will be followed by Sharing of Experiences by the attendees with Q&A session.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 9 March 2021, 14:05-15:05 hrs, on DLF Teams. If you wish to attend this session but are not yet a member of the DLF, click here or request to join as a member on our Teams page. Feel free to join in 5 minutes earlier to say ‘hello’. If you wish to be included as a member on our Teams site please email myself at q.k.s.z.abdullah@dundee.ac.uk or Susie Schofield S.J.Schofield@dundee.ac.uk.

We hope that it will be an enlightening, informative and exciting afternoon for all. It will also be an excellent opportunity to virtually get to know our colleagues/ distant learning enthusiasts from around the University. The first part of the meeting will be video recorded, and the recording will be available on our Teams page. By accepting to attend this meeting, you also agree to be recorded. As mentioned above, you are also very welcome to stay after 3 for a bit longer for an unrecorded catch-up.

Please share this email with anyone else who may be interested. You can access this meeting by clicking on the link, Click here to join the meeting.

Future meetings: 13/05/2021

Best wishes

Qabirul and Susie

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