This year’s APT (Academic Practice and Technology) conference is entitled “Flipping the Institution: Higher Education in the Post Digital Age” and will take place on the Tuesday 7th July 2015 on the world heritage campus at the University of Greenwich. From the conference website: Main image: CC-BY-NC-SA Peter Ulrich, via Flickr Continue reading
Paul Simpson uses cameras with his PR students. As part of their course the students are presented with weekly briefs. In the past the students focused on simply describing the role of images in campaigns but now they are given an opportunity to create the images themselves and experience the… Continue reading
Andrew Ferrier in the Business School uses podcasting to develop and assess students’ presentation skills. Throughout the duration of the course students are expected to submit 4 pieces of coursework, one of them in a form of a podcast. Podcasting is embedded within the course programme and assessment with a… Continue reading
What is “flipped classroom”? Flipped classroom refers to an approach in teaching which reverses traditional session structure and moves lecture content to an online environment that is to be accessed ahead of the class. By doing so the time spent in class is devoted to more interactive forms of learning.… Continue reading
What is Prezi? Approaching a tool like Prezi demands different thinking about your presentation and the story you are trying to tell. The two videos below give you hints on how to plan your sessions with Prezi and how to avoid basic Prezi mistakes: Video Tutorials The videos below deal with… Continue reading
Case studies from other Universities (see also some examples from the University of Greenwich later in this post) The series of short videos below shows examples of innovative ways of using ipads at Zayed University. The videos show the use of interactive books, using iPads for filming and editing, the… Continue reading
Maths students use a variety of easily available apps in their lectures and tutorials. The aim of this project, supported by the Greenwich Connect seed fund, was to introduce the students to more applications to help their understanding of the overall area (in mathematics, this may relate to, for example, history or modern… Continue reading
This Greenwich Connect seed fund project engaged Level 5 History students to create PeerGuide podcasts introducing and explaining the core assessment tasks undertaken by Level 4 students as their core course – “A Tale of Two Cities”. According to previous research poor performance by learners often reflects miscognition regarding the… Continue reading
Students in the Faculty of Business have been using iPads to enhance their participation in taught sessions. During the class group presentations, which occupy several weeks in the course, the non presenting students have, in the past, tended to tune off into other activities instead of actively participating. In order to improve this… Continue reading
Adobe Connect for feedback Erica Sheward at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) has been using Adobe Connect in order to give feedback. Previous student questionnaires revealed that the students were generally unhappy with how feedback was given within the team. To improve this, feedback sessions were organised using Adobe Connect. Students… Continue reading