https://salt.swan.ac.uk/camtasia
Camtasia videos are being used to create blended learning throughout the university. With students accessing the videos or e-lectures ahead of class, they have time to become familiar with key concepts and themes. Videos can be embedded within Blackboard or shared on external platforms, such as YouTube. Students can review the video content at their leisure, to assist learning and preparation for assessments. This software allows you to add captions to videos, supporting students with disabilities and English as a second language learners. Some examples of the use of instructional videos includes how to access Blackboard modules and organisations, use of discussion boards or instructional videos of referencing systems.
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A summary of Advance HE’s “Engaged student learning: High-impact strategies to enhance student achievement” by Professor Carol Evans, Professor Daniel Muijs and Dr Michael Tomlinson – the outcome of a research project tasked with undertaking a systematic review of the academic literature on high impact pedagogical strategies and student engagement in learning within higher education.
Effective online teaching and learning requires a carefully designed classroom that promotes student engagement with faculty, peers and content. This research investigated the importance of collaboration across faculty–student, student–student; active learning techniques; prompt feedback; appropriate time for tasks; high performance expectations; and respect for diverse learning styles.
This is an introductory free course delivered through Open Learn that equates to approximately 6 hours of study. You will find out what online learning is and what it can offer you. You’ll discover the skills required for online study and evaluate your own study skillset. You’ll also examine how students form online communities and how they benefit from flexible study arrangements while still being supported by dedicated tutors.
In this free eight week course by the Open University hosted on Open Learn, you will hear about the experiences of real educators, be introduced to cutting edge research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice.
This course hosted on Future Learn was developed by The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology including Leigh-Anne Perryman, Martin Weller and Lesley McGrath. The course explores four myths: that learning design is about technology and content; that innovation and accessibility are incompatible; that researching online learning is an ethics-free zone, and that educators’ online identities are irrelevant. On this course you will develop personas to help course design, apply accessibility guidelines, examine your digital identity, discuss the relationship between technology, content, people and pedagogy in online courses and consider ethical considerations in online teaching.
This course is designed to give you an overview of Canvas Studio. Firmly rooted in relevant pedagogy, it will teach you how to use the facilities and tools in Canvas Studio to upload, create, and curate content. This content can then be embedded in your Canvas courses or shared externally via the web. You will learn how to use Canvas Studio to create interactive media objects using comments, quizzes, and assignments, and use media analytics to determine how your media is contributing to expected learning outcomes.
The Canvas Essentials series of courses has been designed as an introduction to Canvas, demonstrating how it can be used to support learning, teaching and assessment. This will enable you to raise your awareness of the different features and functionality available in Canvas, and begin to explore how it can be used to develop courses, whilst enhancing the student experience.
Staff from across the University have come together to produce a short CPD module designed to help us all transition our teaching to a format that is suitable for helping students online. The module is designed to help with core principles around the ‘why’ and ‘what’ of teaching online, with links to the technical aspects of ‘how’. The link above takes you to the self-enrolment page to get access to the module. All the content is then available within the module using the navigation menu.