Ep.20 – A brief catch up
Hi everyone, this just a very brief catch up to update you on where I've been. I hope to release a couple if not few more episodes after this one. I'd be keen to hear from yourselves about how and whether you have found this podcast useful. Thank you!
Ep.19 – Reflections on tweaking lectures: using annotated slides to enhance students' learning
Andrew Smerdon reflects on how he has tweaked the lecture experience for students by making a small yet significant change: Andrew moved from a 'traditional' approach of using pre-written PowerPoint slides in lectures to annotating slides in-the-moment during the lectures.
Ep.18 – Students' thoughts: views from mathematics and economics
In this episode, Josh and Sam reflect on how moving digital will better prepare students for life in the workplace which they feel is becoming more digital. The two study economics and mathematics, and economics respectively.
We touch upon a few themes in this episode:
Ep.17 – Future proofing students: Developing students' 21st Century competences to be successful in industry
In this episode, Colette talks about how she integrated developing students' 5Cs (critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaboration and connectedness) by using problem-based learning and small groups.
Colette Mazzola-Randles is Senior Tutor Learning Teaching and Assessment in Computing at
Ep.16 – More than a pivot: thinking critically about our pedagogy
This is a special collaborative episode.
In this collaborative, reblogged episode, Sean Michael Morris, Sara Camacho Felix, Lee-Ann Sequeira and I further explored the role of critical digital pedagogies in the shift to online learning and assessment to continue the conversation arising from the workshop 'More than a pivot: Thinking critically through our pedagogy' held in early June 2020.
Ep.15 – Working together, collaboratively: Changing dissertation-focused teaching sessions to ensure equity for students and realizing the benefits of digital education
In this episode, Steven Young and Sandra Nolte from the Department of Accounting & Finance at the Lancaster University Management School talk about the how they considered potential problems that moving dissertation teaching online might pose. The result: they changed teaching sessions for the dissertation to ensure equity and a smooth experience as
Ep.14 – Reflections on flexibility: A chat with colleagues about suddenly teaching and supporting students remotely
In this episode, colleagues Cathy Salzedo and Stacey Noble talk about their reflections on suddenly teaching and supporting students from home and how this shift has changed their teaching and working for the future. Cathy, a Teaching Fellow, and Stacey, a Teaching Fellow, both work in the Department of Accounting & Finance at the Lancaster University
Ep.13 – What's new, what's fun?: The pleasures and pains of being a digital innovator
In this episode, Bela Chatterjee, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Lancaster University Law School, talks about the pleasures and pains of being an educator as a digital innovator. Bela notes that while innovation has a short half-life, this is what can keep our learning and teaching interesting.
Ep.12 – A flipped classroom through digital chalk talks
In this episode, Sally Keith, an ecologist from the Lancaster Environment Centre, talks about how she transformed her delivery of teaching from a traditional, lecture-based approach by flipping her teaching through creating and using digital chalk talks.
Sally also talks about the theories that informed her new approach to teaching.
Ep.11 – Experiential learning: Adapting a field trip-based module at speed
In this episode, Alison Stowell from the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School, talks about her reflections of adapting an experiential learning module at speed as a result of the lockdown caused by Covid19. The experiential learning for this module was initially based upon a field trip.