Visual journals and sustainability; fostering critical thinking and personal connection
April 14, 2025
Visual journals Visual journalling is a learning strategy that promotes critical thinking by encouraging students to engage with new concepts in experimental ways. It combines imagery and text, allowing students to reflect on their learning using multiple mediums, which in turn enhances the learning process. The approach aligns well with pedagogical principles of engagement, supporting …
Best Practices for Hybrid Teaching
March 10, 2025
When teaching in a hybrid environment, there are a number of options available in terms of approach and technologies you can utilise to deliver the best learning experience for your students. Hybrid teaching and learning has grown in prominence in recent years, particularly following the global pandemic as we started to move back to working …
Broader Benefits of Teaching Accessibility to Students
February 10, 2025
In this guest post from the School of Psychology, Prof. Alexa Spence and Dr. Olivia Jewell discuss the benefits of teaching students about digital accessibility good practice. At the end of the post they share some of the work completed by the students. Accessibility is a real-world need for communicating research effectively. Current Issues in …
Group Choice Activity in Moodle
January 20, 2025
In late 2024, we introduced a new activity type to Moodle called Group Choice. This activity has many versatile applications within teaching and learning, but essentially at its core provides the ability for students to enrol themselves into a group or groups which have previously been set up on the module. Before introducing this activity, …
Student Drop-ins Have Now Gone Virtual
January 9, 2025
Learning Technology have launched a new team in Microsoft Teams aimed at students to help them find out more about Moodle and other learning technologies. It’s basically the student version of the (Staff) Digital Learning Drop-In team. However, we hope it might become a little more than that. Whereas the staff team is mainly for …
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