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Why multimedia matters: promoting the use of video in assessment and feedback

Teaching Matters Academic Support

iStock [erhui1979] While the use of multimedia has become a common practice in the development of learning materials, using audio or video in the way that we assess and provide feedback to our students is a practice which is only followed by a minority of lecturers. What are the challenges of this in comparison to written-based approaches?

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Leveraging technology for effective Assessment feedback (part 1): How to do I.T.?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Photo credit: Beth Macdonald CC0 Unsplash In this extra post, Avita Rath shares her experience with using technology positively to improve her assessment and feedback practices in a way that is interactive, agentic and empowering for students. Using technology to facilitate effective assessment for learning and feedback in higher education.

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How Virtual Reality is Changing Campuses

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

But thanks to technological limitations and prohibitive costs, it didn’t. Now, 20 years after that breathless article, VR technology is finally catching up with its promise. In 2015, two academics decided to change that. . Not for years. . Virtually Connecting was founded by by writer Rebecca J. The ethics of VR.