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We’ve recently added a series of template slides to Mentimeter to help you easily incorporate Mentimeter polls and questions into your teaching, and add an interactive element to your sessions. You can choose to add the template, then amend or edit the slides so they suit your own purposes. What templates are available? Ice breaker… Read more » about Template slides for your Mentimeter presentations
You may be familiar with the University of Kent Digitally Enhanced Education webinars which have been running since lockdown. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on HE is still dominating conversations, so colleagues might be interested to know that the next event in the webinar series will follow the theme ‘Teaching with ChatGPT: Examples of… Read more » about Teaching with ChatGPT – Digitally Enhanced Education webinar
Brightspace’s quiz functionality is a really useful tool for running regular formative quizzes on your unit, helping to reinforce key learning points and aiding students in checking their understanding. The quiz tool also lends itself to promoting learning through retrieval learning or retrieval practice. What is retrieval practice? Research shows that learning occurs not just… Read more » about Formative quizzes and retrieval practice
Would you like to know more about using Mentimeter to add interactive elements to your teaching sessions? Mentimeter helps you to interact with your audience and share responses in real time. It can be used in both online teaching sessions or in the classroom, with participants easily participating using their own devices. If you’d like… Read more » about Mentimeter lunchtime drop-in – Wednesday 1st March FG04
Turnitin are running a free webinar series during February, March and April addressing some of the recent challenges to academic integrity, such as the rise in AI (artificial intelligence) writing tools. The webinars are delivered by expert educators in the field of academic integrity and will provide practical examples of how institutions are tackling these… Read more » about Turnitin Session Series – Protecting Academic Integrity in 2023
Please note the change of date for this workshop Invitation to the National Teaching Fellow workshop Welcome from Dr Geli Roushan, Head of FLIE, and workshop facilitated by BU National Teaching Fellows Dr Mel Hughes and Professor Debbie Holley. Interested staff for this year and those interested in preparing for next year are warmly welcome… Read more » about National Teaching Fellow workshop – change of date
Last week, the Learning Technology team had the opportunity to get involved in a Lego® Serious Play® workshop with practitioner Dr Holly Henderson from FLIE. In these workshops, Lego is used to model themes and visualise ideas in a safe space which fosters communication where everyone’s voice is heard. In our team building activity, the team… Read more » about LTs get serious with Lego
If you have a new member of staff in your team who is unfamiliar with Brightspace, or would like a refresher yourself on some of Brightspace’s functionality, check out our Brightspace Foundations videos. Previous users of these resources have rated them a top score of ‘Very useful’ and found the accompanying online quizzes to be… Read more » about Checkout our Brightspace videos for new starters
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on HE has been dominating conversations since the launch of ChatGPT developed by OpenAI in November 2022. There are concerns over the generation of misinformation and bias, the threats it poses to academic integrity, as well as ideas for opportunities to engage with the tool. One thing everyone seems… Read more » about Artificial Intelligence apps and teaching and learning
The extended pilot of the Jisc Learning Analytics platform continues in Semester 2 with all Level 0 and Level 4 programmes in scope. If you missed the recent scheduled training sessions, you can catch up on the slides and recording here: Jisc Learning Analytics Workshop S2 – Slides Jisc Learning Analytics Workshop S2 – recording… Read more » about Jisc Learning Analytics training resources
