Get Interactive with new course
about teaching with technology
For immediate release
21st April
2017
From 1st
May, educators from universities, colleges and schools around the world will
have the opportunity to learn how best to incorporate educational technologies
into their teaching.
The Bloomsbury
Learning Environment (BLE) has co-designed the
course Get Interactive: Practical
Teaching with Technology, which will be delivered as a Massive Open Online
Course (MOOC) through Coursera. The course is a practical, hands-on
introduction to teaching with technology, providing the opportunity to explore
a range of tools and technology that support and engage students with dynamic
and interactive learning experiences.
This course, which is available to educators
worldwide, will help enable teaching professionals to stay up to date with the
fast-paced technological world we live in. It is aimed at teachers, lecturers
and instructors who have little experience using online tools and technology
for teaching purposes but who have basic familiarity with the Internet and
online learning environments.
The three week long interactive
course consists of a series of video tutorials and activities which
participants can work through at their own pace, with opportunities for
discussion with their peers throughout.
Each week of the
course focuses on a particular topic, and there is a weekly peer-reviewed
assessment:
Week 1 – Enriching
course content with multimedia:
·
The course will look at a variety of media that can
be used to engage and excite students. These include creating images, videos
and screencasts, and embedding Twitter feeds.
Week 2 – Student
production of content: encouraging students to collaborate:
·
During this week, participants will explore how to
encourage students to work together and actively participate in their learning.
Week 3 - Formative
assessment and feedback:
·
In the final week of the course, participants will
consider their experiences in the course and how they might adapt and develop their
own practice.
Sarah Sherman, BLE Service Manager, said: “We
are excited to launch our new course to help educators around the world take
full advantage of the great technology we have available to us. This is a perfect
opportunity to learn good practice and explore how to incorporate innovative
methods into teaching, and engage students through technology.”
For more information about the course, visit: http://ble1.weebly.com/getinmooc.html and to
register, visit https://www.coursera.org/learn/getinmooc.
ENDS
Notes to
Editors
Bloomsbury Learning Environment
·
The Bloomsbury Learning Environment (BLE) is a
shared e-learning service for six Higher Education institutions in central
London, all of which are members of the University of London. The BLE is
committed to innovating learning and teaching by sharing good practice in
Technology Enhanced Learning and e-learning. It supports its partners by
providing cost efficiencies, which are achieved by negotiating with software
suppliers and sharing economies of scale. The BLE aims to work collaboratively,
developing new and exciting ways of teaching and learning that would otherwise
be difficult for the partners to achieve alone (the whole being greater than
the sum of its parts).
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