The seed fund scheme run by Greenwich Connect between 2013 and 2015 supported a number of projects experimenting with the use of podcasting as a learning activity. One of these, led by Dr Angela Byrne within the level-5 history course “Global Exploration from Columbus to Scott’s Antarctic”, is the subject… Continue reading
The university has recently confirmed funding for the Panopto video recording and playback system, following the pilot in the first part of the year. During the pilot, we wanted to focus on four separate use scenarios: recording teaching in classrooms, using Panopto to support flipped learning approaches, providing audiovisual feedback… Continue reading
This is a follow up post exploring the work of Dr. Tatiana Simmonds (Principal Lecturer, Computing and Information Systems Department) and Zoe Swan (Senior Lecturer in Law). The first post, Flipped classroom at the University of Greenwich: our lecturers discuss, featured an interview conversation between them and the Greenwich Connect team. This blog post offers a… Continue reading
My name is Wim Vandekerckhove, and I’m a Principal Lecturer from Faculty of Business. I used equipment provided by the 2014/2015 Seed fund as part of a digital research theme using Google Nexuses with my Business Ethics Course. Below I share some reflections. The project Last autumn, we ran a… Continue reading
Ah this flipping flip again … Since Colorado Science teachers Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams sparked excitement and discussions around the flipped classroom in K-12 Education, many educators have pointed out that a similar method has been practised for years at universities, mainly by business, law and humanities, when students… Continue reading
Erica Sheward at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) has been using Adobe Connect in order to improve the quality of feedback given to students. Previous student questionnaires revealed that the students were generally unhappy with how feedback was given within the team. The objective of the project was to understand… Continue reading
Gavin Rand, who teaches History, Politics, and Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich, had a creative and collaborative idea to utilise the experience of his Level 5 History students to create audio assessment guides for his Level 4 History students. The idea was that student volunteers from Level 5… Continue reading
Dr. Edna Solomon teaches an undergraduate Economics course, ECON1083: ‘Global Macroeconomics” at the University of Greenwich. This course is an optional module and has been taught for the past two years. The course has been delivered over two terms, by two different tutors. While the number of hours differed for each… Continue reading
Paul Simpson challenged his students to record and present themselves and their ideas visually. The objective was to “provide students with enhanced opportunities to put ideas into practice on specific practice-based PR challenges, encouraging student led, and user generated content.” Continue reading
In 2013, several University of Greenwich lecturers from the Primary and Secondary Education departments participated in a project called “Development of the use of ICT in PE and Sport: iPad”. The project team consisted of Dr. Jackie Farr, Andrew Flynn, Andy Freeman, Alex Gibson, and Roz Hornsby. They were… Continue reading