Transcript: Welcome all. Please feel free to share this video with colleagues, if you think they would find it of interest. I want to talk today about engaging students about the need to mix it up a little bit in terms of the way that we deliver our learning, the way that we engage …
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Guidance for Educators: Speak freely
Transcript Welcome all. Please feel free to share this with your colleagues. If you think they’ll find this. Interesting. So let’s talk today about how you deliver your notes. I’m going to assume that if you’re delivering any kind of lecture, you will have notes and it’s absolutely critical that you don’t stand and read. …
Guiding and Motivating Students Online (6’15”)
This brief presentation (6’15”) introduces some themes around guiding and motivating students online. These different facets are mentioned; being clear in instructions, avoid confusion, modelling behaviours, motivating, congratulating, anticipating motivational hurdles. This presentation was the basis for online webinar discussions with educators. It will hopefully prompt you to check your own practices against these …
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Designing Effective Teaching Materials (6’06”)
This six-minute screencast (6’06”) is a top-level set of guidelines for developing effective teaching materials. For some, it may feel like going over well-worn ground, for others it may provide pause for thought. Rationalising what constitutes learning materials seems superficially straight-forward but when one considers the different institutional interpretations of what represents ‘direct’ learning versus …
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Basics of Media Choice in Teaching (Vodcast 3’25”)
Short vodcast (3’25”) outlining four dimensions to the choices of media that IDs and academic faculty might consider as they make selections to support student learning. Originally a vodcast to accompany internal development it is long enough to provoke some reflective practice, short enough not to waste your time! It invites educational practitioners to think …
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Preparing for Webinar Teaching (6’18”)
This six-minute video (6’18”) is entitled ‘Best Practices in Preparing Online Materials for Webinar facilitation.” It is essential guidance for novice webinar teachers. There are 8 tips for preparing your webinar so you do not end up asking questions into the dark abyss and hear nothing back from your students. This screencast was generated for …
Learning & Teaching Activities (6/8-SLDF)
Designing Engaging Learning Opportunities Workshop aligned to UKPSF A1-A2, K1-K4, V1 The third element in a constructively aligned course design and stage six of the 8-SLDF is the learning activities that allow students to prepare for the assessment of their learning outcomes. This is not about the content that we share with our students; it is about …
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