his blog has some thoughts on notes from designing the shift from fully campus based learning to a blended approach for the start of the academic year in September 2020. Instead of being simply a backwards review I have posted as it is still relevant and contains challenges we face to move into the next academic year – either with or without covid-19 in attendance.
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Dealing with lab closure and the student practical experience
One of the hardest parts of dealing with the pandemic has been managing the closure of practical labs for our students. With the overnight closure of the university in March 2020 we had to shut our labs. At that time we had completed nearly all of our taught undergraduate and…
Using Google Docs and Breakout rooms for a directed task, collaborative work, and presentation.
This was originally a jotting on a google document, which I then shared with a few colleagues, which then was refined by our digital learning people at SHU as part of resources for other staff. It can be found at: https://blog.shu.ac.uk/digitallearning/case-studies/ I teach a second-year chemistry module called “Chemistry and…
Reflections on moving final year lab based projects into dry projects overnight
The start of a year of shifting sands The past year has been full of changes and shifting of sands under our feet. During this year I have been recording the odd thing to reflect on so thought I would put them into blog form. It may take one or…