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The HyFlex Experience at King’s College

I have watched a couple of sessions by different speakers on what their institutions did during the transition to remote online teaching. I find the variety of approaches and “lessons learned” fascinating. Tonight, I watched an ALT 2021 session entitled “Reflections on hybrid flexible learning” by Michael Detyna from King’s College London. Detyna talked about […]
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Boats and Surveys of Student Online Learning Experiences

What a day! Great meetings and lots of running around! Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was presented by a team and entitled “We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm”: An exploration of the student experience of the shift to fully online teaching in response to the Covid19 Pandemic” […]
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Developing Inclusive Materials with Student Feedback

Tonight we ended the weekend by watching an ALT 2021 session entitled “Accessible and inclusive learning online: challenges and opportunities” by Jessica Humphreys and Kerry Pinny. Humphreys began by explaining their roles as a senior teaching fellow. They also described the new regulations for inclusive practices in 2018 and the shift away from the deficit […]
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Virtual Learning Environments and Donkey Sanctuaries

A fun Saturday with the family, scooters, and pumpkins. Tonight, I watched a recorded session from ALT 2021 entitled “Leading through listening: drawing from staff and student experiences to adapt the implementation of a new VLE” presented by James Youdale and Malcolm Murray from Durham University. VLE is the acronym for virtual learning experience. During […]
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Supporting Online Teaching for Vision Impaired Instructors

Happy Friday! This evening we watched an ALT 2021 session entitled “The unexpected transition to online teaching for a vision impaired lecturer: Overcoming accessibility issues during the pandemic” presented by Vanessa Mar-Molinero and Karla De Lima Guedes. De Lima Guedes spoke about working with an instructor with visual impairment and cited data that there are […]
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Student Creation of Digital Resources and Perceptions of Captions

I had an awesome day with our RLOE team! They are inspiring and wonderful people. That’s what I needed today. Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was entitled “Re-creating ‘Creating Digital Learning Resources’ online – lessons learned from a meta experience” presented by Anna Ruff, a learning designer. Ruff discussed a first-year medical student selected unit in […]
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Co-creation in Accounting

Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was entitled “Creating a student led on-line inclusive community of learning and co-creation of programme content using digital technology” presented by Sue Evans, Ellen Spender, Tracey Williams and, Lesley Davies. Spender talked about the swift move to online teaching and learning of their accounting courses last year. They had the challenge […]
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Embedding Inclusive Practice into Online Teaching Guides

I have been thinking a lot about blended learning as part of the QM courses and preparing for BIT 295 in the spring. An ALT 2021 session that caught my attention tonight was entitled “Embedding Inclusive Practice for Blended and Distance Learning” presented by Mark Maher, Robin Clarke, Carmen Miles, and Stephen Walker. They have […]
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The HigherEd4All Project and PebblePad

What a week! Lots of fun stuff in the lab, on Zoom, and over email. I was happy to be able to interact with wonderful students in the lab. Tonight’s ALT 2021 session was entitled “The HigherEd4All Project: Design and delivery of accessible, inclusive full-time online degree programmes for students from under-represented groups” by Jacqueline […]
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Datafication of Education

Tonight, I watched the opening keynote of ALT 2021 day 1: Sonia Livingstone. The co-chairs started the session by talking about the ALT 2021 conference. I didn’t realize that the awarded twenty scholarships that went to students! Also, they have several sponsors including Open Academia, Talis, Open LMS, Turnitin, and Canvas. Livingstone is a professor […]
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