Enhancing teaching through technology

In response to informal feedback from staff at the University, the e-learning team have widened the range of topics that we cover in our workshops and seminars. We have also re-designed many of the sessions so that the learning aims can be achieved in 2 hours, and have shifted the emphasis of the sessions to be focussed more on explicit scenarios that better mirror needs at the University.

For instance, two or our new workshops include;

1. Further developing your Moodle skills. This workshop is based on a range of common scenarios at the University and the emphasis is on developing your awareness of how you might use the range of tools and features within Moodle for both e-learning and e-administration.

2. Using technology to support large group teaching. This workshop is based around you developing an appropriate scenario given how you teach your large groups. After developing the scenario we will unpick the potential uses for different technologies to enhance the effectiveness this scenario. Finally, you will develop these using a range of technologies from audience response systems, sms, use of multimedia and lecture capture.

We have also introduced a new lunchtime event, entitled “what can e-learning do for me?” This is a whistle-stop tour of different scenarios of use and technologies.

If you’d like to find out more about these and other staff development events run by the e-learning team then please visit the events area on the LTEO web site, http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/events-workshops/