“Stories of digital success - look how far we've travelled”

TILT

Networking | Seminars | Workshops

This event aims to highlight and share what we have learned this year in terms of the application of technologies for learning and teaching, and for supporting student experience. We will focus on what has worked well (tips and tricks) so as to guide our approach going forward.

From: Wednesday 12 May 2021, 9 am
To: Wednesday 12 May 2021, 5.15 pm
Booking deadline: Tuesday 11 May 2021, 12.00 am
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Event details

It's been a rollercoaster of a year. The rapid transition to blended and then online learning in response to the pandemic has tested us beyond limits. Those that had a reasonable degree of comfort associated with digital technologies and online learning were afforded the opportunity to shine, to stretch their capabilities and develop their skills. Those with more limited experience have achieved things they never thought might be possible in terms of their own digital skills and competences, and the way in which these are employed in our teaching and learning. We know this has been an incredibly testing time, but look what has come from it, look how far we've travelled.

The TILT Flexible and Online Learning Group wants to bring this academic year to close by celebrating a whole range of successes, both large and small, in digital and online learning. This event will be vibrant, dynamic and accessible! It will also include a variety of contribution formats that will not only benefit participants on the day, but will go on to create a legacy resource that dovetails with the exceptional work undertaken by the FLEX NTU team and the fantastic resource base that is ever evolving in response to our growing competency in this area.

Registering doesn't require attendance for the whole day - colleagues are welcome to join as many (or few) sessions as fit around other commitments.

Pre-recorded sessions and resources

Colleagues have created a selection of pre-recorded sessions and resources which have been categorised into the below themes.

Online module development through the use of continuous feedback

Samantha Read - Students as partners

Use of video

Jude Bradbury, Emily Hall and Alison Simpson - Playing the Examiner: Using video to provide on-demand online peer assessment opportunities

Supporting students digitally

Enhancing engagement

Creating digital communities

Sarah Hadlow and Sam Gore - Looking for like-minded people to talk to: the formation of peer communities via MS Teams

Online skills development

Innovative digital assessment and feedback

Facilitating experience through digital means

Facilitating and supporting students learning process engagement and experience through digital means

Programme

You can view the abstracts booklet here.

Timing	Session	Session	Session
9-9.15	Opening welcome - Rachel Bancroft and Dr. Faye Taylor, TILT FOLG Chairs
9.15-9.50	Keynote 1 – Andrew Doig (40 mins) Look how far we have travelled; perspectives on digital success from across the higher education sector In this keynote, Andrew will provide a summary of key learning from across the higher education sector in response to covid and the migration to blended and online forms of education. The keynote aims to draw out the valuable lessons that should shape higher education in a post pandemic world and consider the role that flexible, blended and online learning will take.
10-10.55	Concurrent Session 1 Facilitating experience through digital means 1 Session Chair: Rosemary Pearce Speakers: Tracy Powell (30) Delivered a 'real world' experience of running a newsroom and producing news content.	Concurrent Session 2 Enhancing engagement Session Chair: Caroline Chartres Speakers: Kerry Truman, Luke Sienna, Devishi Kapoor (20) Creating timely checkpoints and open discussion between students, academics and technical communities within MS Teams Rachel Welton and Angela Vickerstaff (20) Virtual Experience of Living and Working Abroad Conference .
10.55-11.15	Break
11.15-12.30	Concurrent Session 3 Facilitating experience through digital means 2 Session Chair: Faye Taylor Speakers: Michael Loughlin (10) Can't get to your lab? Assessing skills including group work is still possible and can lead to unexpected benefits. Sarah Ward, Jenny Briggs (10) How We Travelled to Bulgaria "Virtually" for a Week-Long Student Study Tour Gail Mellors (10) Replicating live broadcasting experience using emerging digital technologies Andrea Lyons- Lewis (10) ‘Extreme E-Service Learning’ – success in online community engaged learning Ken Liston (10) Online Practical Delivery - The use of various technologies to augment student experience, through immersion	Concurrent Session 4 Tools and technologies for teaching Session Chair: Carla Grimley Speakers: Rebecca Gamble, Liam Martin (10) Curating online degree shows Seth Kirby (10) Facilitating digital assessment participation: A case study of Twitter application across sport management students Eva Fernandez Martos (10) Rhinoceros 3D online taught sessions Heather Cameron-Whytock (20) Methods for enhancing student engagement during online PowerPoint presentations
12.30 – 13.00	Keynote 2 – Sam Tanner (30 mins) So what have we really learned and what's next for NTU in the flexible, blended and online space? In this keynote, Sam will summarise the scale of the effort invested across the University in transitioning to online and blended learning in response to covid. He will draw out key learnings and successes and provides direction on the future role that flexible, blended and online learning will take within NTU’s future.
13:00 – 13.45	Lunch
13.50-15.00	Concurrent Session 5 Facilitating experience through digital means 3 Session Chair: Faye Taylor Speakers: Andrew Pierson (20) Undergraduate Final Year Projects online from registration to Showcase and beyond. Anthony Ogbuokiri (10) Building a sense of community via interactive learning technology Rosemary Pearce and David Jeckells (10) Finding ways to be “present” in online learning and teaching: examples from the School of AAH Elyse Wakelin (10) Distance Learning Students. How MS teams has enhanced student engagement and built an online community in the Covid-19 pandemic.	Concurrent Session 6 Effective online orientation/matriculation Session Chair: Rachel Bancroft Speakers: James Rowland (10) Moving a 'Residential' online: Supporting BTEC Student Transition in a Covid-Age Sarah Hadlow (10) Welcome Workshops: Connections, Cameras and Course Communities Chloe Bridges and Cheryl Rounsaville (10) University Transition Week: creating meaningful encounters for progression students in a virtual space Alex Hiller, Fiona Winfield, Mojtaba Pooreeezaei, Sharon-Marie Gillooley, Vangelis Tsiligkiris (20) Evaluating the Effectiveness of Online Onboarding for Postgraduate Business and Management Students
15.00-15.15	Break
15.20 – 16.10	Concurrent Session 7 Supporting students digitally/ Online skills development Session Chair: Faye Taylor Speakers: Lorraine Young (10) Developing Enterprise Skills in an Online Environment: Challenges and Successes! Naomi Braithwaite (10) The Virtual Shoe Salon: An interactive and interdisciplinary approach towards the co-creation of knowledge Sarah Khan & Walter Nowlan (10) Online Student Induction to PEAP (Pre-Sessional English for Academic Purposes) Courses	Concurrent Session 8 Innovative digital assessment and feedback/ Multiple/undecided Session Chair: Michael Loughlin Speakers: Emily Hall (30 mins) The NOW assessment tool, once tamed, a brilliant tool for evidence-based assessment decision making. Gabriele Paleari (10) Advantages in marking and screen-casting with a stylus pen	TILT Chat Hosted by Laura Stinson 15:20-16:00 If you have been inspired to share some of your own practice during the day, come along and share one good thing (big or small) you've done this year. This is an open session for all colleagues to share their experiences of success in Flexible and Online Learning this year.
16.15-17.15	Final Panel Opening: Sam Tanner and Victoria Fanning Panel: Melanie Currie, Rachel Challen, Michael Loughlin, Peter Nicholson This final panel will open with a word from Sam Tanner and Victoria Fanning on the key pieces of advice that colleagues need to bear in mind going forward to plan for the next academic year. A panel discussion will follow, which will raise questions originating from within all academic schools for a response by panellists. These questions will relate to what the plans are in the digital space for the immediate and longer term future and clarify expectations upon colleagues.

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