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Inclusive classrooms: 3 ways tech creates belonging in higher ed

University Business

Technology is rapidly becoming an invaluable resource for higher education professionals who want to create inclusive classrooms in the age of digital transformation. Technology is uniquely designed to support educators in fostering a sense of belonging in the inclusive classrooms.

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Deal with the crisis with online teaching from home: 12 ways of doing it successfully using a virtual classroom software

Creatrix Campus

The situation may be pressing, but retorting to any technology wouldnt help. Theres data analysis, visualization, forecast of assessments that predict learning outcomes, personalized learning pathways for students, and much more. Students, on the other hand, will have access to course information times during absenteeism.

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Higher Ed Email Campaigns: How to Create Emails Students Want to Read

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Primarily associated with AOL, the audio alert became one of the hallmark features of online interactions, later going on to transcend its practical origins and become a cultural touchstone led by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the movie that used the phrase for its title. Emails with dense text can be overwhelming and off-putting to students.

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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. This gives us the flexibility to provide students with all the information from a lecture, in which ever method the instructor chooses to deliver it.

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Free your content! A guide to creating sustainable open licensed media

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Media that includes licensed third-party content, such as images, audio and music, may be used only in closed teaching spaces, for a fixed period of time, or with a limited number of learners. Using public domain and open licensed stock media footage can provide context and visual flair while saving time and budget.

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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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Mini-series: Why Edinburgh is offering lecture recording at scale

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The large scale rollout of the technology to our centrally managed teaching rooms has been designed to provide support to as many courses as possible. The microphone in the room is linked to the induction loop which is essential for students with hearing loss and is the best way to capture high quality audio as you talk.