The news or announcements feed within an online learning environment can serve as a key strand in enhancing the dialogue between instructor and students throughout a module, increasing what we’ve explored in the past as a sense of “presence”. News posts can be used simply to remind students of upcoming events and assessments, though many of the colleagues we support […]
On 21st June we attended the NTU Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, which was all about “Creating Opportunity” this year, and we have shared our experience by gathering together some of the great sharing that happened on Twitter.
The pandemic has necessitated the need for teaching on-campus and online simultaneously. While at NTU we’ve been moving back to campus for most of our teaching this academic year as restrictions have allowed, hybrid delivery is still being discussed in Higher Education worldwide for its potential to offer students who cannot make it to campus the chance to attend live […]
The challenge Moving so abruptly to online teaching during the Covid-19 periods of lockdown certainly provided challenges for everyone working in education, from the redesign of learning materials to the navigation of new technologies for learning online. I spoke to Sarah Khan, a Senior Lecturer within the Nottingham Institute for Languages and Intercultural Communication (NILIC), about the challenge of supporting […]
One of the key concerns for students studying practical courses in the past year is how they can continue to give their students the experiential, hands-on learning experience they would ordinarily get from coming to campus and using industry-standard equipment and processes, but with students now participating from their own homes (see Kolb, 2014 for more on experiential learning). This […]
This post is part of our series exploring the various new ways staff in Arts and Humanities have found to create a sense of “presence” in online and blended learning during the pandemic. Dave Mann, Senior Lecturer within the Nottingham Language Centre (NLC), has explored new ways to connect with students, and encourage them to connect with each other, to […]
As staff and students have been adapting to new and different ways of learning and teaching, finding solutions to the issues this involves is sometimes challenging. The case study of small group online collaboration using Teams and OneNote highlights how readily available tools and services can be combined to provide a genuinely collaborative online and real-time student experience which enables […]
This post is part of a series on how staff in the School of Arts and Humanities at NTU are finding new ways to bring presence into their blended and online learning and teaching. We hope that highlighting some of the different practices we’re seeing and supporting in the School might give others ideas that can be adapted and replicated […]
The LTSU recently worked with a staff member in Journalism and Media to develop an online game for self-assessing data journalism skills.
On 6th April a major new temporary exhibition opened at the National Justice Museum. Liberated Voices: Stories of Women (In)Justice is a collaboration between the Museum and the School of Arts & Humanities. Students from MA Museum & Heritage Development were tasked with producing short films in response to five objects selected by the Museum. These films now form part of […]
