Remote teaching: engaging students through lecture chunking and interactivity
Dr Saloni Krishnan, Department of Psychology
This case study describes good practice in remote teaching: the use of a live Mentimeter quiz and Moodle forum and drag-and-drop tasks to add interactivity to a lecture recorded in chunks. Read more here
Replay and Clickers
Professor Wolfgang Müller, Department of Earth Sciences
In my undergraduate ‘Geochemistry’ and ‘Metamorphic Geology’ courses, but also in specialist postgraduate research classes, I use short practical tasks such as brief calculations, peer discussions and tasks triggered by questions or photos on slides to make the classes more interactive…Read more here
Flipping the Bioscience classroom: online lectures and in-class problem solving
Dr James McEvoy, School of Biological Sciences
Here, James describes a new approach to teaching the Principles of Molecular Bioscience course, an approach that has emphasized problem-solving and understanding, and one that seems to have better prepared the weakest students for the exam...
Read more here (from Curriculum Design section)
‘Rethinking Italian Fashion’ lecture
Dr Giuliana Pieri, Head of School, Modern Languages
I wanted to try something new in the last lecture of my undergraduate final year course ‘Italian Fashion and Design’, in which students were asked to generate the content of the lecture by providing a number of images which in their view best represented Italian fashion now…Read more here