Symposium: Teaching well and supporting students during COVID-19
Ordinary people teaching well during extraordinary times This University-wide symposium on Wednesday 8 July will celebrate and share ‘simple, but different’ COVID-related teaching and…
Are they even watching? Ask your students to let you know what they are getting out of your videos!
Do you want to know whether your students are benefiting from your carefully developed videos? Ask them to share their reactions by commenting. They…
Using Padlet in the classroom
Since the University’s shift to online teaching on March 23, there have been different approaches to how best utilise resources for student engagement and…
Horses for courses – finding the humanity in remote teaching and assessment
Dr Nesrine Basheer joined the School of Languages and Culture in 2015, and hasn’t looked back. With a PhD in Arabic Linguistics, her passion…
Zooming online: oral and video presentations
Living through a global event in which we haven’t experienced the likes of before, there is no better time to highlight the fantastic and…
Building a learning community in the time of COVID-19: Overcoming isolation and keeping students motivated
We are living, teaching and learning in extraordinary times. This semester, we had an increased focus on developing a sense of belonging and connection…
Protecting your Zoom classroom
Since 23 March when the University officially moved all teaching to “online”, we have collectively embraced Zoom as our new and sometimes unwieldy teaching…
Summative assessments in the time of COVID-19: Balancing anxiety, workload, and integrity
The situation we’re all in this year has meant a complete rethink of not only how we teach, but also how we assess. Some…
Reimagining our teaching for online delivery – book a consultation now
Our shift to fully online learning has been swift and incredibly well received by students. This semester, we first had to learn how to…
Lectures in the time of COVID-19 – synchronous or asynchronous?
Although March 2020 seems to have been going on for about 45 years, we’ve actually only been teaching remotely for just over 2 weeks!…