In this episode, we talk to Claire Fennell, a Senior Instructional Designer at University College Cork in Ireland, about how to blend classroom teaching with online learning in your virtual learning environment (VLE). As we approach a new academic year, it's a great opportunity to think about how you can build, update or redesign a site in your VLE…

In this episode, we focus on how to empower learners as researchers by making them specialists on a sub-topic within their discipline. This approach is simple but effective. Start by dividing aspects of the subject you are teaching into sub-topics or research areas. Each student is assigned one of these to pursue as a personal research project thro…

In this episode, we focus on Team-Based Learning (TBL), a variety of flipped learning, and how this approach can help encourage students to prepare for lectures, seminars and other teaching sessions by creating a system of accountability. As this approach emphasises teamwork, it can also help students to develop teamwork and negotiation skills, as …

In this episode, Tab Betts talks to Dr. Maria Kukhareva, an Educational Developer at the University of Bedfordshire, about how she uses Object Based Learning (OBL) in her teaching. The discussion focuses on how strategic use of physical objects, photos and other realia can be used in any discipline to promote critical thinking, group discussion and…

TEL: US podcast & vidast, available here: https://youtu.be/kzFkRlMvXXIThis week Dan & Tab discuss and share tools that help manage our reading habits. We also filmed this one at the same time. To add a new dimension to the podcast. We wanted to be able to show you what we are talking about. We'd love your feedback on this.In this show:Dan Axson: ht…

Welcome to our last episode of 2017. In this Christmas special we are joined by the whole Technology Enhanced Learning team and special guest Professor Saul Becker, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex.On this week's show: What's your favourite Christmas film?What has caught your eye in teaching and learning at the university this yea…

This week on TEL US.Dan & Tab talk over the following:Dan https://twitter.com/danaxsonTab https://twitter.com/tabbanbettsSussex TEL https://twitter.com/SussexTELTandem https://www.tandem.net/Thinglink https://www.thinglink.comH5P https://h5p.orgTEL Advent Calendar http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/tel/2017/12/05/sussex-tels-festive-countdown…

This week on the Sussex TEL US podcast. We officialy announce that this is the beginning of Season 2. Joining Dan Axson is Tab Betts and George Robinson.https://twitter.com/danaxsonhttps://twitter.com/tabbanbettshttps://twitter.com/Super_GeorgeRhttps://twitter.com/SussexTELhttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/about/projects/digitaldiscovery…