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Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

It is difficult to draw just one conclusion from the research I have read. Qualitative research done by James Lamb, Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, highlighted some of the things that still makes students turn up to their lectures: the human element. So, what does this mean? Dickson, P.

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How Virtual Reality is Being Used in Curriculum to Develop Empathy

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

VR allows a seamless process for students to step into someone else’s shoes, like in the scenarios above, according to what the research paper “Learning Empathy through Virtual Reality” described as the “body ownership illusion.”. Therefore, according to the research, this shifts the participant’s perception of touch toward the virtual body.

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From students to scientists: The impact of interactive engagement in lectures

Teaching Matters Student Employment

These two questions formed the basis of my final year research project, which looked at interactive engagement lecture strategies in the second-year genetics course Genes and Gene Action 2 (GGA). But what skills/abilities are important, or rather, essential for becoming an effective scientist? Loads, D., & McQueen, H.

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Does lecture capture enhance learning?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We also trialled the Top Hat electronic voting system in the lectures. However, it was unclear what impact, if any, it had on attendance, with research having consistently failed to establish any clear relationship. Why is it not done for many other courses?”

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Welcome to September-October’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Innovation in Science Teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Part of the reason is that, even in science teaching, the approach to educational research we must take is much more rooted in the specific context of the teaching intervention (due to the involvement of human subjects), and so the results are less generally applicable than the scientific laws with which we otherwise work. Morrell, J.B.,

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Welcome to September-October's Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: Innovation in Science Teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Part of the reason is that, even in science teaching, the approach to educational research we must take is much more rooted in the specific context of the teaching intervention (due to the involvement of human subjects), and so the results are less generally applicable than the scientific laws with which we otherwise work. Morrell, J.B.,