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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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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. The development of student feedback literacy: enabling uptake of feedback. DEELEY, S.

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Open Education Week 2024 and Course Development OER  

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: OE week visual kit Today marks the start of Open Education Week 2024! Course Design OER Collection on Open.Ed Open.Ed: Course design OERs We want to highlight this selection of course videos and learning design resources created by our Online Course Production Service (OCPS) working closely with the OER Service.

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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.

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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). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Matbouly, M.Y.

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Getting creative: Unexpected benefits of the Covid pandemic

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

When you put four tutors together from different continents, generations, technological backgrounds, but who are passionate about storytelling through documentary, you get surprising new connections. And it can, and sometimes did, clash with the personal agendas that the students needed to explore. It was challenging.