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Collaboration:  Skill or Culture?

Collaboration : Skill or Culture In his editorial, Russ Crawford references the case studies covering collaboration, to contend collaborative working is a learned skill. However, Russ goes further, suggesting other factors are at work, and collaboration may also be a culture. Russ closes by inviting readers to form a conclusion or even suggest a theme […]

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The Move to HyFlex: Our Annual Teaching and Learning Conference  

The Move to HyFlex: Our Annual Teaching and Learning Conference Giorgia Pigato and Cat Bailey explain how they used SharePoint to remove distance as a barrier and increased participation in the annual teaching and learning conference at the University of Exeter Authors :Giorgia Pigato and Cat Bailey  1.What exactly was the shift in culture and/or […]

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Moving LTHE from face to face to online delivery at speed

Moving LTHE from face to face to online delivery at speed Giorgia Pigato, the University of Exeter, explains how redesigning a face to face course captured the benefits to be gained from flexible delivery. Author: Giorgia Pigato 1.What exactly was the shift in culture and/or organisational practice that you wish to highlight?   The Academic Development […]

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Robust and Fair Online Exams

Robust and Fair Online Exams  How do you create a fair and robust online exam paper? Alison Hill and Nicholas Harmer share how they achieved this. Authors: Alison M. Hill and Nicholas J. Harmer  1. What exactly is the shift in culture and/or organisational practice that you wish to highlight?   For the 2020/21 academic year, […]

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Teaching and Assessing Laboratory Sessions Online

Teaching and Assessing Laboratory Sessions Online  Nicholas Harmer and Alison Hill share how imaginative use of instructional videos and  assessment material enable students to complete their exams Authors : Nicholas J. Harmer and Alison M. Hill What exactly is the shift in culture and/or organisational practice that you wish to highlight?   The COVID-19 pandemic provided […]

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Using OneNote in Microsoft Teams to support the transition from face-to-face to online teaching

Using OneNote in Microsoft Teams to support the transition from face-to-face to online teaching   Susan Caie explains how the University of Aberdeen used OneNote to make instructional materials easily available for online teaching. Author: Susan Caie 1. What exactly was the shift in culture and/or organisational practice that you wish to highlight? In March […]

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How a Pandemic Enabled a Culture Shift Towards Lecture Capture

How a Pandemic Enabled a Culture Shift Towards Lecture Capture   Sonya McChristie describes how the adoption of new video systems and the interruption caused by the pandemic drove the adoption of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) at the University of Sunderland. Author: Sonya McChristie 1. What exactly was the shift in culture and / […]

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Key Principles for digital practice

Key principles for digital practice Alejandro Armellini from University of Portsmouth shares how the university is using the lessons learned from the pandemic to design pedagogic approaches that support hybrid digital working. Author : Alejandro Armellini What exactly is the shift in culture and/or organisational practice that you wish to highlight? The request for a […]