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1. About IDEAS

   Find out more about the Faculty of Health’s Innovation in Digital Education, Assessment and Simulation in the Faculty of Health (IDEAS) website.

2. Curriculum Enhancement Bid Support

   If you think technology might be able to support an existing curriculum enhancement idea you’ve been considering or you just want some curriculum enhancement inspiration, why not speak to your local TEL and technical colleagues.

3. Improve Classroom Participation and More by Using Response Sites and Portable Devices

   This week therefore, I want to highlight how a group of mostly free websites can turn students’ own devices into powerful and versatile audience response systems.

4. 12 Ways to use Mobile Response Sites with Student (and Faculty) Devices in the Classroom

   The approaches below are collated from the literature and also from the views of colleagues within the faculty who have used student devices as audience response systems.

5. Sharing Practice – PowerPoint narration for reflection, content creation and assessment

   This academic year the audio narration feature in PowerPoint has been used by a number of staff and programme teams for a variety of tasks.

6. 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...

7. 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.

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.