Centre for Academic Innovation and Teaching Excellence
In MS Teams the Forms app is being retired and is being replaced by a new Polls app. Forms will continue as a separate app for surveys, but to add a poll to Teams meetings you will be able to use the new Polls app. By separating these functions Microsoft hope to improve the experience […]
As DMU moves to a block delivery mode, knowledge checks are becoming increasingly important to ensure that we keep students on-track over each seven-week period. One mechanism that can be used to gauge understating is the Blackboard Test but does it always have to be about Multiple Choice Questions? There are a number of different […]
Many of us are curators of digital content or experiences in one way or another. Here we are referring to content curation activities, using digital tools, such as Padlet or Wakelet, among the many others, that are used to support active learning. These tools allow us to use engage multiple modes, including video, audio, images […]
Ranking tasks are active learning activities that “engage the brain in a different way than any other task” (Lasher, 2022); moreover, they are easily adaptable for online and hybrid learning environments. In this post we look at how ranking tasks can be used in different subject disciplines and some of the ways they can be […]