Very few of us learn effectively without communicating with others – whether they’re experts, peers or critical friends. To support our students, we’ll be looking at ways of supporting effective communication and Interaction….Continue Reading 2: Communication
3: Assessment
We’ll be looking today at both formative assessment or, as it’s also called, assessment for learning, and summative assessment….Continue Reading 3: Assessment
4: Teaching Materials and Resources
For many staff, a significant part of the preparation for teaching is preparing content – whether that’s pre-recorded videos, resource lists compiled primarily from library material, material staff have created themselves or OER content that’s relevant. We’ll try to find some pointers to help ease this process, while ensuring the content is engaging….Continue Reading 4: Teaching Materials and Resources
5: Active and Social Learning
Humans are innately social, most people need others to share ideas with, to learn from, and to generally engage with while learning….Continue Reading 5: Active and Social Learning
3: What is the ABC model
What is the ABC Model? The ABC curriculum development model is a student-centred approach to curriculum development. It’s a model that’s been adopted internationally and one we’ve used to help design our FutureLearn courses. We’ve now adapted it further to help you create richer learning designs for blended learning modules in 20/21. ABC is based…Continue Reading 3: What is the ABC model
5: Acquisition
Acquisition is the process by which students get key information – how can we engage students well with this online?…Continue Reading 5: Acquisition
6: Discussion
Today, we’ll be looking at how we can make the best use of discussions, whether synchronous or asynchronous to engage students.
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7: Collaboration
Collaborative working is key in almost all degree schemes. This should give you some ideas for how you might get some ideas about moving collaborative activities online. …Continue Reading 7: Collaboration
8: Practice
Today’s topic will give you the opportunity to think about learning through Practice, and consider how this learning type could offer students active engagement in the blended and online mode ……Continue Reading 8: Practice
9: Investigation
Investigation is a large part of student work – and in the earlier years is often seen as preparation for the final dissertation…Continue Reading 9: Investigation
