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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. Such formats aid student motivation and are suitable for a large cohort (Ryan, 2018).

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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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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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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. Let´s start with the added value that the video element confers.

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Getting creative: Unexpected benefits of the Covid pandemic

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Emily Beaney We wanted to share five points where team teaching has made a difference to us: research, teaching, sustainable effort, co-creation and pleasure. Research This was an unexpected benefit. Shalhavit-Simcha Cohen Shalhavit-Simcha Cohen, is a PhD researcher here at the University of Edinburgh and a pop star.