Student-generated questions and volunteering experience are effective tools for participatory learning in STEM subjects
The teaching of STEM subjects that include much scientific jargon, especially by scientists that are not necessarily educators, poses challenges to students' learning. This is especially heightened during the assessment period, where in addition to the complex content of those subjects, students experience exam related anxiety.
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Students in the driver’s seat – using innovative real-time feedback mechanisms
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Thinking outside the blocks: employing the principles of Lego Serious Play as a learning technology to facilitate team building tasks
The workshop explored how, using the LSP cycles of Challenge, Build, Share and Reflect, participants can build models, both as individuals and as groups, to address specific issues. Research has highlighted the inherent problems pertaining to student group projects (groups not bonding or feeling connected which can lead to poor team working) and LSP can be utilised to overcome barriers, whereby group members share and contribute towards a group task.Click here to read more and access the presentation (where available)
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want.’ The use of Socrative technology to gather feedback on the student learning experience
Given the growing number of instructional technological tools available to marketing educators, as well as increasingly technologically savvy and diverse cohorts of students, it has become incumbent upon UK Higher Education Institutions to design learning units which embrace the use of appropriate learning technologies which facilitate and enhance classroom engagement.Click here to read more and access the presentation (where available)
Prezi as an inclusive learning tool
This project examines the effectiveness of Prezi presentation technology in actively engaging students with diverse learning needs in pre-seminar learning and revision. The project draws on theories related to the importance of inclusive teaching in higher education, with particular focus on theories related to learning styles, multi-modal learning and the use of technology in learning.Click here to read more and access the presentation (where available)