Support for Flexible Learning
Find guidance and resources to help with development and deployment of flexible learning modules.
Useful resources
Please familiarise yourself with the following resources when setting up and development Flexible Learning modules.
- Adapting SCALE-UP for fully online learning
- Online collaboration via NOW Discussion Forums
- Short guide to using MS Teams
- Tools for teaching in MS Teams
- Small group work using Teams channels
- Setting up Microsoft Teams meetings for online teaching
- Using MS Teams Breakout Rooms: step by step
- Tips for effective facilitation of online learning
- Top tips for effective facilitation of online learning
- Supporting international students online
- Setting up and Managing Hybrid Meetings Guidance
- Module development: accessibility considerations
- Microsoft Bookings guide for tutorials
- Top tips for effective facilitation of online learning
- Using electronic library resources
- Student progress tool
- Student dashboard
- Creating a welcoming digital community
- Using the Awards tool in NOW to gamify your module
- Clarifying what engagement looks like
- AdvanceHE: Student engagement through partnership framework
- Giving students reasons to engage
- Teaching for quality learning at university (Biggs & Tang)
- Designing for engagement
- Edutopia: Strategies to improve participation in your virtual classroom
- Advance HE: Internationalising Higher Education Framework
- Scaffolding the learning process
- Gilly Salmon’s 5-Stage Model
- Writing for an online audience
- Jakob Nielsen: How users read on the web
- Using engaging questioning strategies
- Geoff Petty on questioning strategies
- Utilising immediate student feedback
- Using the Awards tool in NOW to gamify your module
Additional guidance
These additional resources may prove useful when developing Flexible Learning modules.
One-minute CPD is a quick way to learn something new and save you some time.
Every day a new video will be released with a different idea that can be tried out.
There are lots of support and guides available on NOW Central for colleagues to read.
For support in developing Flexible modules throughout 2020/21 there is guidance available on the How to develop a Flexible module page.
If further support is needed, please contact NTU's Flex Team: elearning@ntu.ac.uk.
If you are experiencing any technical issues, assistance is available from support@ntu.ac.uk.
Organisational Development offers a range of sessions to support colleagues in the use of technology to support learning and teaching, and working from home.
All sessions can be accessed directly from the Organisational Development WFH help Team. There is no need to book in advance, just turn up at the scheduled time.
Schools can also request bespoke sessions. To do this please contact SharedSupport@ntu.ac.uk
TILTOnline is an extension of TILT’s offline service offer and works to build community online, and grow the culture of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at NTU.
The TILTOnline MS Team provides a range of online activities and digital media that facilitate the exchange of innovative learning and teaching practices and supports excellence in learning and teaching at NTU and across the sector.
SCALE-UP (Student-Centred Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies) is an innovative active, collaborative learning approach which is used extensively across NTU.
For support in adapting SCALE-UP for flexible learning, the SCALE-UP Guidance MS Team is available to colleagues to ask questions, share ideas, book onto support sessions, and read guidance.
Key contacts
For additional help, please contact elearning@ntu.ac.uk.
You may also wish to contact your relevant Learning and Teaching Manager.
| School | Learning and Teaching Manager |
|---|---|
| School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences (ARES) | Sarah Broadberry |
| Arts and Humanities | Rachel Challen |
| Social Sciences (including Education) | Belinda Ferguson |
| Art and Design | Zena Rashid |
| Science and Technology | Michael Loughlin |
| School of Law | Ryan Murray |
| School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment (ADBE) | Nick Prior |
| Nottingham Business School | Graham Thomas |
| Confetti | Richard Wain |
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