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Allowing for greater flexibility, a HyFlex teaching model enables higher student engagement and options as opposed to completely hybrid or in-person learning.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

"Flipping the classroom is a tried-and-true approach that, when effectively incorporated, greatly enhances students’ learning experience and ability to apply their newfound knowledge. Here are some important steps to consider when implementing this practice into your virtual or in-person instruction."

Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Elizabeth E Charles

"When we look at all the assumptions that have been overturned in higher education because of the pandemic and all the needs that have only grown during this time, what becomes clear is that frameworks that previously worked for higher education are no longer guaranteed to function. Something new is needed, and flipped learning may be exactly the right model for where higher education is headed once the pandemic is over."

Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Elizabeth E Charles

It is often assumed that online collaboration, teamwork and communications is inferior to face-to-face equivalents as we miss the visual cues, facial, body language and so on. His would suggest that collaborative teamwork or meetings may be better with VIDEO ON, as opposed to JUST AUDIO.

 

Yet, this fascinating paper from Tomprou et al. (2021) at Carnegie Mellon, who looked at group ability to solve a range of different problems, found something quite counterintuitive. Visual cues have no effect on collaborative work. In fact, teams without visual presence were more successful, not only in synchronising their vocal cues but also speaking in turns and on solving problems. The authors rightly claim that this calls into doubt the conventional wisdom that you need video support.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

If we are to bring about lasting changes around the use of technology in teaching and learning in colleges and universities, we need to understand the practices that staff undertake and the challenges they face. Effective and sustained change comes from a place of working in service to pedagogies, and practices that support and surround learning and teaching. In order to better understand these issues Jisc commissioned research to gain more understanding about practice around learning and teaching and gaining insights beyond the technology-led. 

Via Elizabeth E Charles

If there ever was a time to create a flexible structure for student learning and success, the time is now. One of the most empowering and compassionate practices that we can integrate into our classrooms is scaffolding, an instructional strategy that provides students with a framework to guide and support their learning (Wood, Bruner, & Ross, 1976). Scaffolding can offer a weekly structure that supports student growth, creates autonomous learners who are responsible for their own learning, and gives learners more confidence in acquiring new skills.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

In this article, you will learn about the various criteria that you can use to evaluate a blended learning classroom. You will learn how to identify what makes a successful blended learning environment and how you can improve your classroom if it is having trouble meeting those criteria.

Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Elizabeth E Charles

Find out which five areas online teachers need to adapt to teach online effectively and which skill will make you stand out from the rest.

Via Nik Peachey, Elizabeth E Charles

Believe it or not, this may be the easy part. The answer is to put the power and profit in the hands of the teachers themselves, and in turn, back into their communities. By building teacher cooperatives this can become reality.

Via Nik Peachey, Elizabeth E Charles