For Universities, and in particular science education, some of the main issues we faced have been how to deal with closed laboratories (see this blog piece), exams and lectures. I’ll have a look at exams and lectures here.
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What is your idea that got away?
The One That Got Away This is another of my ‘BitRot’ inspired doodles from the summer, transferred from a google note into this blog piece. I did actually voice type it on google, maybe I should have just recorded it as an audio file. Another time. In the book Bit…
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Finding the positives from online learning in a pandemic
At the moment I feel like Rumpelstiltskin trying to find golden threads of what we have delivered over the past year. Some say that this year will have changed University education forever, I must agree, I htink we can take some really positive things from it. We also need to see what aspects of the face to face and campus experience we have really missed and look at getting those back as soon as possible.
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The big shift online
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…