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1. Immersive Room

   There is now a permanent Immersive Room installation in Tithebarn Building room 3.30

2. Student Access and Publishing Canvas Courses

   We’ve had many queries this week in relation to student access to Canvas courses.

3. The Healthcare Simulation Dictionary

   Thanks to SSH Society for Simulation in Healthcare for the following post.

4. TOON! Non-technical Skills (NOTECS) Cartoon

   Enjoy our monthly cartoon section, this months ‘toon’ comes from our Team Resource Management series by our resident cartoonist Smurphmuff.

5. Sharing Practice - Faculty Distance Learning Course Examples

   Following the Faculty TEL survey we have collated a handful of good practice examples of courses and approaches designed/redesigned to support distance learning via active blended learning. Read more...

6. Book in review: Using Simulations for Education, Training and Research (Dieckmann (ed))

   Simulation-based educators should read this book, particularly those who are involved in designing programmes of training or who are responsible for designing the simulator environment and purchasing equipment.

7. Sharing Practice – The Faculty of Health Immersive Room

   We would like to highlight the Faculty Immersive Room and share some of the practice happening within it.

8. Sharing Practice – Supporting Student Collaborative Activities with Shared Documents in Office 365

   Faculty colleague Andrew Kennedy has kindly offered to share his experiences of using shared documents on Office 365 both to support student group assessments and also to facilitate active and engaging shared writing and proof reading activities.

9. Welcome to 2020 – Panopto quizzes

   There is a recent flipped learning case study on the University of Sussex TEL blog. Sussex have recently introduced Panopto and also use Canvas so you may find this interesting and useful.

10. Key Information

    With the start of the new academic year fast approaching there are some key changes we think it is important you are aware of.