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

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Universities invest considerable time and resource in developing high-quality media for teaching and learning, so it’s important that these materials are sustainable and reusable and can reach the widest number of students and learners. However, use of media resources can be limited by copyright restrictions.

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Empower Learners for the Age of AI: a reflection

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

Some of the ‘ end is nigh ’ messages circulating on Social Media in the light of the recent release of ChatGPT are fanciful click-bait, some however, fire a warning shot across the bow of complacent educators. Like any technology, AI also has its disadvantages and limitations. No one can be certain how the market will unfurl.

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Thinking in Public and Private Spaces

Dr. Laura Pasquini

It’s not that I can’t catch a glimpse of banter, fun chat, and comrade on social media spaces, like Twitter or Instagram. I think what I have enjoyed most is the long tail reward for this type of audio project. Visual Podcast Reflections. My digital community and personal learning networks feels very different now.

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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).

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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! Simple techniques for producing audio and video that can help educators level the relationship with their students, engage more openly, and ensure that learners get the most out of the educational experience being presented.

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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.

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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?