Preparing for using a student response system in your lecture
February 23, 2008
Video >> Interviewer: “So how do you actually do it?” Andrew: “OK, there’s some software you can download and basically it runs in conjunction with Powerpoint. So you run your Powerpoint presentation and then it’ll just give you an option of “Insert chart”, and then you can insert the type of chart you want and …
“Please turn on your mobile phones” – ubiquitous computing in the classroom
January 30, 2007
Mette Asmild, Andrew Jackson, Benson Lau and Nick Mount: “The adoption of the mobile telephone has revolutionised social and commercial communication in the 21st Century. Whilst it is estimated that the majority of students in British higher-education (HE) use mobile-‘phones and text/SMS-messaging, the learning benefits of adopting and supporting mobile ‘phone text-messaging communication from students …
Development and evaluation of a re-usable learning tool to supplement didactic lectures
January 29, 2007
Jo Leonardi-Bee: “The Division of Epidemiology and Public Health teaches Evidence Based Practice/Medicine (EBPM) to a variety of postgraduate courses. A common theme across these courses is to enable students to put theory from didactic lectures into practice using computer based statistical software packages. However, there are no practical sessions to accompany a particularly difficult …
“The bright young things and their parties” – eTeaching the Greek symposium as exploration of the digital classroom
January 17, 2006
Katharina Lorenz: “The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has become a vital part of teaching and learning in Higher Education. But while the technology to design virtual learning becomes more sophisticated, teaching strategies which cater for the needs of the distant learner still await refinement. The digital classroom enhances the learning experience, facilitating …
Mathematics Electronic Learning Environment in Engineering and Science (MELEES)
July 30, 2004
Stephen Hibberd and Cliff Litton: “MELEES is a web-based environment, developed since 2002, to support students who take mathematics modules as a part of their course. In 2004-5 over 2000 students across Engineering and Science at the University of Nottingham used MELEES to support their learning. “The principal challenge within the service teaching of mathematics …
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