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Start of Year Course Roll Over Checklist

Below is a checklist for Unit Coordinators to work through to ensure that a rolled over course has been updated to the minimum required standard. An expanded checklist and instructions can be found below: Reviewed: July 2024

Kate Hilton October 9, 2020July 15, 2024 Blog, Quick Tips, Spotlight Read more

Interactive Lectures: iSpring

Interactive Lectures: iSpring

Narrated presentations are often used as a substitute for face-to-face or live online lectures. This is commonly done using PowerPoint or other similar presentation software. In order to bring in elements of face-to-face lectures and increase student engagement, online lecture

Iva Lazarova September 11, 2020May 17, 2024 Blog, Spotlight Read more

eLearning Good Practice – Blended and Online

Jennifer Kennedy and Tim Walton, Teaching Fellows from the Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, have developed an online resource (using Softchalk) to provide divisional colleagues with a resource bank of ideas for various aspects of online and blended

Helen Davies August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Blog, Spotlight Read more

Case Study: ABC Learning Design

ABC Learning Design is a curriculum design workshop developed by Clive Young and Nataša Perović in 2014 at University College London. The methods align closely to the well-renowned research by Prof Diana Laurillard on how students learn in “Conversational Frameworks”

elearning July 28, 2020July 12, 2024 Blog, Spotlight Read more

Delivering online large-scale interactive teaching: A case study from Robot Overlords

Dr Iliada Eleftheriou, Lecturer in Health Data Sciences at the University of Manchester presents a talk on her experiences with Blended Learning focusing on delivering interactive teaching online. Examples presented are derived from the “AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague?”

elearning July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Blog, Spotlight Read more

Welcoming New Students: Meet the Team

The Clinical Bioinformatics Teaching Team recently created a video welcoming new students to their course. The team used a simple pre-agreed script which they presented via Zoom while recording. If you are interested in doing something similar, take a look

elearning July 28, 2020April 18, 2024 Blog, Spotlight Read more

Moving to online teaching: models to deliver group work

Iliada Eleftheriou, Lecturer in Health Data Sciences at The University of Manchester and Andy Brass, Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Manchester discuss models for delivering group work online.

Anna Burton July 15, 2020July 17, 2020 Blog, Spotlight Read more

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