Today was a busy day with trips to the playground and NC State Open House! Tonight, we watched the ALT 2021 session entitled “Online supports for flexible learners to support student mental health and wellbeing at scale” presented by Kelley Hester, Jacqueline McCormack, O’Gorman Louise, Louise Kearins, Jennifer Gilligan and Allison Gillen. Hester is doing […]
It is Friday! I had a chance today to talk with Melanie about Hypothes.is. It was a lot of fun! Also, student researchers worked in the lab. Tonight, we watched an ALT 2021 session entitled “Making your mind up: Formalising the evaluation of learning technologies” by Marieke Guy and Tharindu Liyanagunawardena. Guy is a learning […]
After a busy and fun weekend, we settled down and watched a couple of sessions from ALT 2021. The first one Amada and I watched was on math! Entitled “Numeracy skills training for all with Elevate My Maths. Preparing students for Success in Higher Education and Beyond” and presented by James Howell and Ovidiu Bagdasar, […]
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 […]
A session from ALT 2021 caught my attention: “Promoting Connectedness – the importance of peer mentors in an intra-curricular online learning space” since I am working on instructor presence this week. The speakers of this session were Peter Bryant, Juliette Overland, Danielle Eden and Natasha Arthars. Bryant acknowledged the indigenous people in Australia. Bryant teaches […]
I have been intrigued by note-taking in the classroom for almost a decade now. My first proposal for an educational study when I came to NC State was using Livescribe pens to capture student concept maps and share them to evaluate and compare to other digital tools such as Lucidchart. We have been using electronic […]