INTO TEL Podcast: Recent Episodes

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The Technology enhanced learning team are available to support you in developing your online teaching, as well as provide bespoke training solutions both across centres and specific to your requirements.

Each centre will be assigned a Learning Technologist who will work with them to agree training for staff, support online learning development, upskill staff and support centres in their day to day teaching online.

In this podcast, the INTO TEL team will come together to discuss ideas for teaching and learning, particuarly focused on blended and online learning.

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We had the pleasure of being joined by Katy Forrest, a colleague from INTO University of Stirling who teaches law, among other things. Katy shares the interesting work she's done in reimagining her law module's assessment, and what plans she has for future assessments.

This is a great episode if you're looking for ideas on how to make assessments in your module more authentic.

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For this episode, we're pleased to be joined by our very own Alan Odgers, the TEL team's Lead Instructional Designer. Alan has a wealth of experience in designing learning activities and content for students and employee development. We sat down with him to pick his brain on what makes a good learning content and to get some top tips you can apply when designing your course and/or materials.

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In this episode, we're pleased to be joined by Dr Rachelle Maddison and Dr Paul Mackay, both from INTO Newcastle. We focus on ⁠Nearpod⁠, a great way to add interactivity to your lessons to make them more engaging.

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Welcome back to the TEL podcast, where we explore the latest trends and best practices in technology-enhanced learning. Today, we're having a further look at artificial intelligence (AI) tools and their impact on higher education, specifically focusing on their use in academic writing classes.

This episode is hosted by Glen and Coral, who had the great pleasure of being joined by Dr Laura Dumin, Professor in English and Technical Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. Laura was kind enough to share her experiences of incorporating AI tools into her lessons and overall course design.

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Welcome to the INTO TEL podcast, where we explore the latest trends and best practices in technology-enhanced learning. Today, we're excited to bring you a discussion on the topic of AI, and how it might be embraced within higher education.

The hosts for this week's podcast are Coral and Glen, who were pleased to be joined by Dr Paul Mackay from INTO Newcastle. Paul has been experimenting with AI and has some fascinating insights into the things we need to consider when embracing AI.

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In this preview of episode 7 (Season 2), you can hear Dr Laura Dumin sharing her experiences on the impact AI tools have had on her time in preparing courses and lessons.

Dr Laura Dumin is a Professor in English and Technical Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma. Laura was kind enough to share her experiences of incorporating AI tools into her lessons and overall course design.

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A hearty welcome to the TEL podcast, where we explore the latest trends and best practices in technology-enhanced learning. Today, we're excited to bring you a discussion on the topic of active learning and how VLEs can be used to support and complement learning both in and out of the classroom.

The hosts for this episode are David and Glen, who were pleased to be joined by Emre Bennet, a Senior Customer Success Manager from D2L Brightspace. Emre has been supporting us at INTO throughout our time using Brightspace, especially during those fraught early stages of the pandemic. Even though Emre has his Brightspace hat on, all aspects discussed definitely apply to other VLEs.

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Welcome to this month's episode of the TEL podcast, where we explore the latest trends and best practices in technology-enhanced learning. Today, we're excited to bring you a discussion on the topic of playful pedagogies.

Joining us today are our hosts, Coral and David, and a very special guest, agile coach Steve Sweales. We were lucky enough as a team to attend a previous agile training session with Steve and were impressed with his innovative approach to teaching using gamification. So we invite Steve to share his process of designing his agile game, discuss the lesson learned, and pass on advice to our teachers who may want to develop their own games.

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Welcome to the TEL podcast, where we explore the latest trends and best practices in technology-enhanced learning. In this episode, hosts David and Coral discuss the importance of online communities with Rosemarie Chui, INTO's Director of Community. Rosemarie talks us through the key considerations in the creation of an online community, how to encourage student engagement in these communities, and lessons learned from the INTO Community so far.

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Welcome to Episode 2, Season 2 of the INTO TEL Podcast. Hosts Glen and Coral from the INTO TEL team talk to three very special guests – Maarten Koeners and Adam Lusby from the University of Exeter and Yousuf Hindess from INTO University of Exeter about INNOPLAY.

INNOPLAY is designed to co-create and promote a culture that can foster play within the University by creating capacity for awareness, uptake, and exposure of play and playful learning; and Adam, Maarten and Yousuf have dropped by to tell us all about it.

To find out more about INNOPLAY, you can view their website.

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In this first episode of Season 2 of the TEL podcast, the team discuss how you can incorporate technology into your classroom using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Coral, Glen and David discuss how considering UDL can improve the learning experience for all students, as well as provide some examples of UDL in practice.

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This is a short preview of Season 2, Episode 1: Bringing Technology into the Classroom Using UDL Principles.

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In this episode Tab Betts, Yusuf Dirie, Ellis Taylor and Coral Condeco-Dunachie discuss the future of Educational Technology. From robots through VR to open education pedagogies; the team discuss what they would like to see the future look like.

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In this episode Ellis, Coral, Tab and Yusuf discuss the role of the Learning Technologist in education; considering them as a 'learning companion' for a teacher.

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In this episode the team discuss what it might be like returning to the classroom after the covid-19 pandemic and consider some of the technologies and ideas we might continue to use from our digital lessons.

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In this extra special 30 minute episode, Coral, Tab, Yusuf and Ellis discuss some of their favourite tools for teaching online. Some of the tools covered are Discussion Forums, Flocabulary, Quizzes, Screenrecording and Flipgrid. 

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In this episode, we continue our discussion on extended reality in online teaching from our previous episode. Tab, Coral, Ellis and Yusuf discuss ideas for implementing extended realities into your teaching and provide some more tools to help you do this.

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In this episode Coral, Ellis, Tab and Yusuf discuss the use of Extended Reality in teaching. Extended reality covers Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. In this first episode, the team discuss what these terms means and potential tools we can use for implementing this in an online classroom. Part 2 will follow in two weeks.

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In this episode Learning Technologists Tab Betts, Yusuf Dirie and Ellis Taylor discuss the design and use of asynchronous tasks in online teaching. They provide some tips and ideas for how to integrate activities into your learning content.

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In this episode, Learning Technologists Tab Betts, Yusuf Dirie and Ellis Taylor discuss the use of escape rooms in online teaching. 

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In this episode, Yusuf, Tab and Ellis discuss the idea of interactive storytelling and how this can be used to enhance teaching. 

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In this episode Ellis, Tab, Yusuf and Coral discuss the use of podcasts in online learning. They discuss some of the benefits of using podcasts for remote learning, as well as provide some ideas for sourcing suitable podcasts, or even starting your own!

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In this episode, Tab Betts and Ellis Taylor discuss ideas for taking online learning away from the screen. Some ideas include building in regular screen breaks, asking students to write on paper, creating offline asynchronous tasks and setting tasks offline during live lessons.

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In this episode, Learning Technologists, Tab Betts, Ellis Taylor and Yusuf Dirie talk about gamification in online learning. The team discuss ideas for including play in your online teaching, as well as provide some ideas and tips for implementing this.

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In this episode, led by Learning Technologist Ellis Taylor, the team discuss ideas and tips for supporting student wellbeing and mental health online.

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Join Director of Teaching and Learning , Richard Samuels; Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning Alexandra Wanski and Learning Technologist, Coral Condeco-Dunachie as they discuss some of the ideas, practices and technologies for online delivery that have been raised in INTO's cross-centre Communities of Teachers.

For this podcast we have divided it up into two sections: we first look at ways to promote student engagement and then we look more specifically at breakout rooms.

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In this episode, Coral talks to Dr Olga Mausch-Debowska, Subject and Learning Support (SEN) Teacher at the University of Stirling about accessibility in online learning. They cover why accessibility is important, what teachers need to do to be compliant with legilsation and provide some useful ideas for creating accessible content.

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Welcome to episode one of the INTO TEL podcast!

In today's episode we are going to be talking abut 'getting ready for the start of term' including; icebreakers; getting to know you ideas; setting up your course page on your VLE and ideas for asynchronous tasks.

This weeks host Tab Betts, is joined by team members Coral Dunachie, James Parker and Ellis Taylor.