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Mini-series: Chalk, Talk and Tech: Blending technology and tradition

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo credit: unsplash, @roman_lazygeek, CC0 It has long been one of the toughest technological nuts to crack: How to successfully capture chalkboard surfaces in lecture recording. There is no need for them to adjust their teaching style to suit the technology. Simple, but ingenious.

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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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Embedding visual storytelling techniques into academic development videos

Teaching Matters Online Learning

There was a shift among practitioners from professional grade video production technologies, digital cameras and external audio equipment to individual laptop cameras, built-in microphones, and video conferencing software (Microsoft Teams, Collaborate and Zoom). Pedagogy 1 January 2019; 19 (1): 168–176. Gifford, R.

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Spotlight on Learn Foundations: How well do we know our courses in Learn?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

So, as part of the process of moving content from the Phase 1 Schools’ 2018/19 courses to the new Learn Foundations template ready for the start of the 2019/20 academic year, I was keen to take the opportunity to explore the kinds of questions above. Nov 18, 2019 Neil Davidson Neil is the Learning Technologist in Edinburgh Law School.

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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. This can be complicated for developing technologies because the ethical dilemmas may not yet exist, but there are some basic areas where administrators can start.