Case Study: ManUniCast is a publicly accessible weather and air quality forecasting tool accessed through modern web browsers. It aims to support the teaching in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, while also educating the public about how weather and air-quality forecasts are made.
Examples ofl tools that can quickly and easily be embedded into Blackboard to enhance your course content and learner engagement.
Using Jupyter Notebooks to teach computational literacy.
Case Study: This project was set up to explore a way to enable all students to apply themselves to tutorial questions as well as affording the additional possibility of enabling students to remain anonymous when showing their maths workings to the class and when receiving feedback on these workings.
Case Study: Creating video for teaching and learning does not have to be complicated or time consuming to be effective. With a good plan and the right equipment you could produce some simple introductory videos similar to the ones produced by Dr Louise Walker, Associate Vice-Dean for Teaching and Learning within the School of Mathematics.
Case Study: Until recently, the School of Materials directed learners to paper-based resources to look at weave structures. This was becoming increasingly unpopular with learners, as the books with this information are expensive to buy and are in high demand in the University library.
Celina Jones from the School of Materials contacted the FSE eLearning team to propose the creation of an online catalogue of weave structures.
An explanation of why online learning is different to classroom-based learning.
Multiple choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful time saver for academics as they are quick to mark, but they are only useful to the learners if they are planned well. Here are some pointers for you to consider when designing and implementing multiple choice quizzes, whether on paper or in Blackboard.
A full guide detailing how to use Zoom’s many features. This guide includes breakout rooms, polling, essential security tips and cloud recording.
This webpage details how to use a visualiser to display a real-time image of what is underneath the document camera.
