Category: Active Learning

This put up will take a look at some digital instruments that might be used for actions resembling peer studying and making use of data. We’re additionally eager to take a look at apps and instruments that might assist to construct a way of group. As at all times, the expertise is secondary to the…

Zoom breakout rooms can be a great way of facilitating interaction between students during online teaching sessions. They can be particularly useful when teaching large groups, when the possibility of student contributions is more limited. However, there is a danger that these rooms can become silent spaces where students are not actually interacting and when…

Specialism-based studying (SBL) is an method to curriculum design. SBL works by giving every scholar a specialism or focus, which is distinct from the specialisms of their scholar friends. They’re then anticipated to use the theories being explored on the module to their specialism. In a SBL module: College students select or are given a…

This week we’re introducing a wonderful social media software, Instagram. Instagram is a social media app which permits customers to share pictures and video clips. As social media websites like Fb (which its value noting is the mum or dad firm which owns Instagram) proceed to fall by way of use amongst youthful customers apps…

There is a lot of talk about Active Learning and the importance of learning by doing, but isn’t reading a kind of doing? In my mind it is, but I am reminded too that research by Bartholomae, Petrosky & Waite (2017) suggests that real learning happens, ‘only when the authors are silent and you begin…

In January 2020 the Digital Practice Awards were announced with several projects given funding to trial an innovative digital approach to teaching at Sussex. One of the winners was Dr Louise Newnham from the School of Life Sciences. Dr Newnham is a lecturer in Genome Stability teaching mainly at Masters level. Prior to the awards…