Sussex TEL: Teaching with Tech Podcast

In this episode, we talk to Claire Fennell, a Senior Instructional Designer at University College Cork in Ireland, about how to blend classroom teaching with online learning in your virtual learning environment (VLE). As we approach a new academic year, it's a great opportunity to think about how you can build, update or redesign a site in your VLE to integrate aspects of online learning into your classroom teaching. Claire introduces the ADDIE model of instructional design and a range of...

In this episode, we focus on how to empower learners as researchers by making them specialists on a sub-topic within their discipline. This approach is simple but effective. Start by dividing aspects of the subject you are teaching into sub-topics or research areas. Each student is assigned one of these to pursue as a personal research project throughout the module, compiling a portfolio of their reflections and findings along the way. Their final portfolio submission demonstrate an...

In this episode, we focus on Team-Based Learning (TBL), a variety of flipped learning, and how this approach can help encourage students to prepare for lectures, seminars and other teaching sessions by creating a system of accountability. As this approach emphasises teamwork, it can also help students to develop teamwork and negotiation skills, as well as promote peer evaluation and critical thinking in the classroom. Best of all, TBL provides a clearly structured template for planning and...

In this episode, Tab Betts talks to Dr. Maria Kukhareva, an Educational Developer at the University of Bedfordshire, about how she uses Object Based Learning (OBL) in her teaching. The discussion focuses on how strategic use of physical objects, photos and other realia can be used in any discipline to promote critical thinking, group discussion and reflective learning. Links: - Maria Kukhareva at the University of Bedfordshire (www.beds.ac.uk/cle/about/team/maria-kukhareva) - Maria...

TEL: US podcast & vidast, available here: https://youtu.be/kzFkRlMvXXI This week Dan & Tab discuss and share tools that help manage our reading habits. We also filmed this one at the same time. To add a new dimension to the podcast. We wanted to be able to show you what we are talking about. We'd love your feedback on this. In this show: Dan Axson: https://twitter.com/danaxson Tab Betts: https://twitter.com/tabbanbetts Sussex TEL: https://twitter.com/SussexTEL Blinkist:...

Welcome to our last episode of 2017. In this Christmas special we are joined by the whole Technology Enhanced Learning team and special guest Professor Saul Becker, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex. On this week's show: What's your favourite Christmas film? What has caught your eye in teaching and learning at the university this year? We finish with a quiz, hosted by our guest Professor Saul Becker. Thank you for listening, we look forward to what 2018 brings. Merry...

This week on TEL US. Dan & Tab talk over the following: Dan https://twitter.com/danaxson Tab https://twitter.com/tabbanbetts Sussex TEL https://twitter.com/SussexTEL Tandem https://www.tandem.net/ Thinglink https://www.thinglink.com H5P https://h5p.org TEL Advent Calendar http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/tel/2017/12/05/sussex-tels-festive-countdown

This week on the Sussex TEL US podcast. We officialy announce that this is the beginning of Season 2. Joining Dan Axson is Tab Betts and George Robinson. https://twitter.com/danaxson https://twitter.com/tabbanbetts https://twitter.com/Super_GeorgeR https://twitter.com/SussexTEL http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/about/projects/digitaldiscovery