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Education Policy for AllHello, world!This is our short trailer for our new podcast, Education Policy for All from the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. The Education Policy for All Podcast brings together policy education, research insights, and open discussions relating to education policy developments with researchers from the University of Glasgow and beyond. We’ve designed the podcast to (hopefully!) make education policy research more accessible to educators and the wider education community in a more conversational format that breaks down the ideas that we discuss.In each episode, we interview academics about their research to be...2022-04-1201 min
Digital Education Practices: What works?Social annotation: critically commenting, togetherEpisode Notes
What is social annotation? How is social annotation relevant to educators, students and researchers?
In this episode, Jess Wilkinson, a faculty developer at a local college in Ontario, talks about how and why she uses social annotation within her practice as a means of fostering critical engagement, thinking and analysis through critical, social interaction with texts.
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This podcast is powered by...2021-01-3125 minDigital Education Practices: What works?A brief catch upEpisode Notes
Hi everyone, this just a very brief catch up to update you on where I've been. I hope to release a couple if not few more episodes after this one. I'd be keen to hear from yourselves about how and whether you have found this podcast useful. Thank you!
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2021-01-3104 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Reflections on tweaking lectures: using annotated slides to enhance students' learningAndrew Smerdon reflects on how he has tweaked the lecture experience for students by making a small yet significant change: Andrew moved from a 'traditional' approach of using pre-written PowerPoint slides in lectures to annotating slides in-the-moment during the lectures. The result is that students are more focused during the lectures as they follow along, think and reflect on the concepts and topics for the day.
Andrew works as a Teaching Fellow with the the Department of Accounting & Finance at the Lancaster University Management School.
Support Digital Education Practices: What works? by donating to their...2020-09-1523 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Students' thoughts: views from mathematics and economicsIn this episode, Josh and Sam reflect on how moving digital will better prepare students for life in the workplace which they feel is becoming more digital. The two study economics and mathematics, and economics respectively.
We touch upon a few themes in this episode:
reflections of learning online during the COVID-19 pandemic;
the importance of bite-sized elements of learning;
setting up and scaffolding learning;
taking into account students' shared lives at home;
being mindful of where students may be learning;
maintaining the flow of information to lessen potential cognitive overload;
blended learning as an option...2020-08-2945 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Future proofing students: Developing students' 21st Century competences to be successful in industryIn this episode, Colette talks about how she integrated developing students' 5Cs (critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaboration and connectedness) by using problem-based learning and small groups.
Colette Mazzola-Randles is Senior Tutor Learning Teaching and Assessment in Computing at Blackpool and The Fylde College.
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-08-1821 minDigital Education Practices: What works?More than a pivot: thinking critically about our pedagogyIn this collaborative, reblogged episode, Sean Michael Morris, Sara Camacho Felix, Lee-Ann Sequeira and I further explored the role of critical digital pedagogies in the shift to online learning and assessment to continue the conversation arising from the workshop 'More than a pivot: Thinking critically through our pedagogy' held in early June 2020.
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LSE PodcastsThe Common Room | More Than A PivotSean Michael Morris, Sara Camacho Felix, Dustin Hosseini, and Lee-Ann Sequeira further explore the uncertainties faced by staff and students in the shift towards online learning and assessment2020-07-3141 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Working together, collaboratively: Changing dissertation-focused teaching sessions to ensure equity for students and realizing the benefits of digital educationIn this episode, Steven Young and Sandra Nolte from the Department of Accounting & Finance at the Lancaster University Management School talk about the how they considered potential problems that moving dissertation teaching online might pose. The result: they changed teaching sessions for the dissertation to ensure equity and a smooth experience as possible for students given the sudden issues caused by Covid19.
Underlying their successes is a discussion of the importance of clear communication, keeping all staff abreast of potential problems and solutions and the need to form close working relationships with educational technologists. Through working together...2020-06-3034 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Reflections on flexibility: A chat with colleagues about suddenly teaching and supporting students remotelyIn this episode, colleagues Cathy Salzedo and Stacey Noble talk about their reflections on suddenly teaching and supporting students from home and how this shift has changed their teaching and working for the future. Cathy, a Teaching Fellow, and Stacey, a Teaching Fellow, both work in the Department of Accounting & Finance at the Lancaster University Management School.
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-06-2932 minDigital Education Practices: What works?What's new, what's fun?: The pleasures and pains of being a digital innovatorIn this episode, Bela Chatterjee, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Lancaster University Law School, talks about the pleasures and pains of being an educator as a digital innovator. Bela notes that while innovation has a short half-life, this is what can keep our learning and teaching interesting.
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-06-2429 minDigital Education Practices: What works?A flipped classroom through digital chalk talksIn this episode, Sally Keith, an ecologist from the Lancaster Environment Centre, talks about how she transformed her delivery of teaching from a traditional, lecture-based approach by flipping her teaching through creating and using digital chalk talks.
Sally also talks about the theories that informed her new approach to teaching. The result: more engaged learning and teaching.
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-06-1624 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Experiential learning: Adapting a field trip-based module at speedIn this episode, Alison Stowell from the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School, talks about her reflections of adapting an experiential learning module at speed as a result of the lockdown caused by Covid19. The experiential learning for this module was initially based upon a field trip.
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-06-1330 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Suddenly distant: Reflections on delivering a history conference onlineCorinna Peniston-Bird from the Department of History at Lancaster University reflects upon how she and her colleague Mark Hurst from the History Department rapidly moved a postgraduate taught student conference to be delivered remotely.
Corinna's reflections provide some insights into good practices and considerations for running remote conferences no matter the subject or discipline.
Steps were taken in order to ensure access and inclusivity so as to ensure the programme's learning outcomes were met in a sound way while creating a positive experience for students despite the sudden shift to online caused by coronavirus Covid19.2020-06-0524 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Creativity in the sciences: using hybrid online, in-person teaching strategies for resilient educationIn this episode, Amanda Rasmussen, an assistant professor and plant ecophysiologist in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Nottingham, talks about how she used hybrid online, in-person teaching strategies to create a more resilient educational experience.
Part of this hybrid approach involved students using a modern collaboration system for group work and producing creative assessments relevant to their subject that also served as a departure from traditionally writing-heavy assignments.
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Find out more at...2020-06-0125 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Reflections upon trying out MS TeamsIn this episode, Helen Meek, a Senior Teaching Fellow the Department of Marketing at the Lancaster University Management School, reflects on how she integrated in Microsoft Teams in the autumn of 2019 onto a 3rd year marketing consultancy project module.
Helen provides some insight into the lessons learned from implementing MS Teams in autumn 2019 and on how using a collaboration tool helped both her students and staff as the Covid19 pandemic started to shut down society across the UK.
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This podcast is...2020-05-2020 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Hopes, fears and opportunitiesBy reflecting upon their past and recent experiences of blended and fully online education within the context of developing an academic program, Lancaster Executive MBA Programme Director and Senior Teaching Fellow Emma Watton and Senior Teaching Fellow Randall Zindler share their thoughts on some of the hopes, fears and opportunities that blended and digital education can present to learners and educators. Support Digital Education Practices: What works? by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/digital-education-practices
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-05-1629 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Personal connections: how audiovisual feedback increases students' understandingStaff might want to provide feedback that goes beyond the written text alone. Sascha Stollhans talks about the reasons he has used audiovisual feedback over the past few years, how students and staff engage with this type of feedback and how he does this. Sascha is a Senior Teaching Associate in German Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University. Support Digital Education Practices: What works? by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/digital-education-practices
Find out more at https://digital-education-practices...2020-05-1121 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Shifting face-to-face exams for online deliveryIn this two-part episode, Sandra Nolte and Steven Young from the Accounting & Finance Department of the Lancaster University Management School talk through the steps that they took to shift exams designed for face-to-face delivery for delivery online while ensuring students' access and welfare. In the Part 2, to be aired at a later date, Sandra and Steven will talk about teaching materials for dissertations. Support Digital Education Practices: What works? by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/digital-education-practices
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This podcast is powered...2020-05-0827 minDigital Education Practices: What works?How to create and maintain engagement with first year studentsIn episode 2, Brian Gregory talks about a few ways he has used over the last few weeks to diversify and maintain engagement with first year students, one of which was a fireside chat style of conversation. Brian teaches entrepreneurship and strategy at the Lancaster University Management School.
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-05-0414 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Transitioning from in-person to virtual workshops (without much notice)In this episode, senior research associate Jonathan Menary, talks about how he and his team had to transform in-person workshops into virtual workshops at short notice through quick and open thinking. Support Digital Education Practices: What works? by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/digital-education-practices
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-04-2818 minDigital Education Practices: What works?Digital Education Practices Podcast LaunchIn this initial episode, I set out why I am launching the Digital Education Practices: What works? podcast. I talk briefly about the inspiration for this podcast, its purpose and give a few resources and tips for moving to digital education quickly. Support Digital Education Practices: What works? by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/digital-education-practices
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2020-04-2406 min