Reflections of an Educational Developer on 2020
I started 2020 as a curriculum developer with curriculum design and assessment as my specialty areas. I am ending it with a whole host of other skills that I never imagined I would develop.
Posted on: 8 December 2020
Don’t be Afraid of Creating Video Captions this Halloween
The deceptively daunting task of captioning and transcribing multimedia content is sending shivers down colleague’s spines this term, but help is at hand.
Posted on: 28 October 2020
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 2 - the one with Lego
In Episode 2, our guests share their lightbulb moments, including getting students to 'take' feedback, the importance of reflection, using play for conceptual understanding with Lego and ways of engaging environmental science students with hydrology. We also hear how the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged creativity when preparing for Hybrid Active Learning and socially distanced teaching.
Posted on: 2 October 2020
Trying out Hybrid Teaching on Campus
Colleagues joined a trial of on-campus teaching to gain first-hand experience of teaching in a socially distanced way, with some participating as remote learners. Please read on to find out our observations with the trial.
Posted on: 29 September 2020
Hybrid Active Learning – Support Site is Live on Canvas
The HAL support Canvas site is a 'one-stop shop' for supporting staff for the hybrid delivery from September 2020 onwards.
Posted on: 6 August 2020
Transition from New Box View to Bb Annotate for marking of assignments using Bb Assignments in VITAL
Earlier this year Blackboard Inc (the developers of VITAL) announced the move away from New Box View and the change to Bb Annotate for assignment viewing, marking and grading when using the Blackboard Assignment tool. Testing has now been completed to our satisfaction on this tool on our test server, and the change is due to be implemented, by our suppliers, on VITAL in the week commencing August 10th.
Posted on: 6 August 2020
Transitioning to Hybrid Active Learning
Please bear with us as we are busy behind the scenes working with the faculty APVCEs to develop further guidance and resources to support you with learning and teaching in 2020/21. This will include supporting two modules per faculty which can be used as examples of hybrid active learning.
Posted on: 23 July 2020
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 1 (Parts 1 and 2)
The age-old question: if you were stranded on an island what pedagogies would you bring? How might you take your lightbulb moments with your students into next semester’s socially distanced campus, your treasure island? Tune in to our very t(r)opical two-part podcast, inspired by Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, in which four @LivUni lecturers share their lightbulb moments and treasure island pedagogies.
Posted on: 17 June 2020
Remote Teaching podcast: From the Beatles to Beefheart - Part 2/2
Continuing the conversation on remote teaching, four lecturers from the University of Liverpool share their experiences of how students are engaging during the #COVID pandemic.
Posted on: 23 April 2020
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Reflections of an Educational Developer on 2020
I started 2020 as a curriculum developer with curriculum design and assessment as my specialty areas. I am ending it with a whole host of other skills that I never imagined I would develop.
Posted on: 8 December 2020