With the move towards blended learning, it can sometimes feel like we’ve been living in a virtual world over the past two years, our heads jammed with thoughts about online and digital spaces. Many of us have been asking the … Continue reading...
Tag: blended learning
‘Blended Learning’ what does it all even mean?
A guide to all those new and confusing terms in teaching and learning.
From ‘lockdown’ to ‘PPE’ to ‘furlough’, the pandemic has brought with it A LOT of new words, once seen as niche jargon or just completely unknown, now … Continue reading...
Playing games with learning
From cards, to gaming consoles and table-top family classics, gaming is something I’ve always loved. My favourite genre is the RPG, role-playing game, where you can select an avatar and journey through fantastical worlds in heroic fashion. Puzzles get my brain fired up with frustration and … Continue reading...
BILT Hackathon: 9 solutions to great asynchronous learning
The BILT Hackathon first involved us splitting into groups and discussing the main challenges that we as students are finding whilst participating in blended learning. Some challenges we discussed did not affect us all equally, for instance some students found … Continue reading...
Reflections on a crisis – opportunities for a teaching overhaul
Beyond the immediate impact on people’s lives and livelihoods, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused a great deal of disruption in how we work. The burden on academics, particularly with respect to teaching, has been considerable. But are there positives that … Continue reading...
Welcome to the start of a very unusual year
As we approach the start of the main teaching term I wanted to thank everyone across the university for the enormous efforts you’ve put into designing and creating online and blended teaching for our students. When we made support for … Continue reading...
The Active, Collaborative Cookbook
A collection of ‘recipes’ to try with your students to introduce more active learning activities into your sessions. With a specific focus on digital engagement, this book is a must-have for any lecturer teaching students online! The cookbook was created … Continue reading...
The Office: Episode 3
What the flip is flipped teaching?
I love lecturing. It’s awesome. I get that nervous excitement beforehand, like an actor or musician about to perform – it fires up my imagination – I think of new ways to say … Continue reading...
An interview with… Michaela Borg
Michela Borg is the Educational Development Manager in the Centre for Academic Development and Quality at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). She has been involved in our SCALE-UP work from the beginning. As they embarked on a pilot of the approach … Continue reading...