Category: Classroom Interactivity
Design for engagement: Role play in online discussions
Photo by Larry Costales on Unsplash The role play approach encourages students to examine a topic or problem from different perspectives. There are a few approaches for designing a role […]
Design for engagement: the 3:2:1 discussion format
3:2:1 prompting Setting clear expectations is crucial in online writing activities. Vague instructions can bring vague results. Asking students to ‘post any questions you may have’ to a discussion forum […]
Design for engagement: Instructional design for critical thinking
Research points to various factors which contribute to successful online discussion activities.
Migrating to online teaching pt. 2: MS Teams
What is MS Teams? MS Teams is an application designed to enable colleagues to collaborate and communicateregardless of where they are working from provided that they can access the internet. […]
Migrating to online teaching pt. 1
Royal Holloway aims to deliver as much teaching online as possible by Mar 23. We have a rich portfolio of established institutional system and third-party services, alongside a mixture of […]
Encouraging and tracking lecture attendance with in-class Moodle quizzes
A recent tweet from Donna Lanclos ABSOLUTELY NAILED my understanding of the perception among many of the E-Learning Team’s role here at Royal Holloway, University of London: <RANT>This limited view […]