Category: E-Learning Team

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 […]

Considerations for online teaching Pt.2: Video
The need to now cater for remote learners means a move away from events and towards accessible, chunked content.

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 […]

MOOC: Understanding Biological Energy
A free online course for young scientists To coincide with British Science Week (6-15 March 2020), Royal Holloway, University of London is launching a free, four-week online course; Understanding Biological […]

Lecture Recording Project: Next Steps
The first two weeks of term with an opt-out lecture recording policy have been incredible. Here are some headlines and highlights: A fivefold increase in recorded lectures in Week 1 […]

H5P: Interactive Content in Moodle
About H5P makes it easy to create, share and reuse rich and interactive HTML5 content. Linking it with Moodle allows academic staff to produce formative and summative assessment activities, as well […]

Lecture recording myths
As we move to record 50% of lectures at Royal Holloway starting in September 2019, it’s a good time to curate and deconstruct some of the myths surrounding this student-led […]

MOOCs: drivers, data and diversity
Photo by Andrew Wulf on Unsplash Introduction We have now produced and run, several times each, four Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with our partner FutureLearn. The College portfolio continues […]

What’s on our screens?
A New Year’s resolution that keeps on giving. Not only have we been catching up and expanding our reading, we have also spreading the word – on demand – with our colleagues.

Flip the lecture? We flipped the presentation
Flipping the presentation: reflective practice, pedagogy, and technology

New Year, new blog
This is a re-launched version of our blog – new platform, new new ideas.