Developing Digital Residency for Executive Education Learners

Posted on 9th February 20214th August 2023 by Michelle

Leadership Development & Organisation Futures Team (LDOF) Newcastle University Business School Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences What did you do? We applied the Digital Residency framework to the design and development of the online spaces for learners on the Executive Education Programmes, creating learning activities and resources that support a continuum of engagement across Read more about Developing Digital Residency for Executive Education Learners[…]

Heroes of Portuguese – Year Abroad Support 2020

Posted on 9th February 20218th March 2021 by nsf102

Conceição Pereira and Loiana Leal created a Canvas community with optional activities for students who should have been abroad as part of their degree in Portuguese.

Heroes of Portuguese was chosen as a title because Heroes is a confident word, heroes overachieve, go further, and unite.

Headshots of Dr Kevin Crosby and Samantha Ryan

Using discussions to engage and upskill students

Posted on 8th February 202117th January 2022 by nkv15

Dr Kevin Crosby and Samantha Ryan share how they used an individual discussion board as part of the weekly rhythm of teaching in order to hone writing skills and encourage student to student feedback.

Engaging Students in Synchronous Sessions: Using the same human approach, just adopting different tools to deliver online…

Posted on 4th February 202117th January 2022 by Michelle

Nick Howey, Module Lead BUS2036 Newcastle University Business School Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Who was involved? Module – BUS2036 – Business Analysis and Business Analytics – Level 2 Elective module UG Marketing, Marketing and Management & Business Management degrees. Module size – 93 * 2nd year UG students (level 5). What did you Read more about Engaging Students in Synchronous Sessions: Using the same human approach, just adopting different tools to deliver online…[…]

INTO Pathway and Canvas Structures

Posted on 26th January 20218th September 2021 by ndl93

Tami King and Nataliya Thomson, Module Leaders INTO Newcastle University What did you do? Created an easy-to-follow main homepage and pathway structure for multiple classes in one Canvas course. Made it very easy for students to navigate through, using five main areas of navigation to keep the structure straight forward. Pathways had a similar look Read more about INTO Pathway and Canvas Structures[…]

INTO Student Community through Canvas

Posted on 19th January 202117th January 2022 by ndl93

Stephen Grinsell, Director of Studies & Student Experience INTO Newcastle University What did you do? Created a student community on Canvas to initially support student orientation and induction weeks, but to also give a home to INTO Student Support and its various elements. For orientation and induction we needed a space to host information on Read more about INTO Student Community through Canvas[…]

Using MIRO to facilitate a studio culture in Architectural Education while teaching online

Posted on 19th January 20218th September 2021 by ndl93

Emily Scullion, Smajo Beso and Jen Naden, Teacher in Architecture INTO Newcastle University What did you do? We set up an online student community using Miro in an attempt to replicate the studio culture that would be otherwise missing from architectural education when teaching online. Miro is an online platform that “provides an engaging, intuitive, Read more about Using MIRO to facilitate a studio culture in Architectural Education while teaching online[…]

Rethinking Present in Person Activities for Online Teaching – Using Quizzes

Posted on 13th January 202123rd August 2021 by Claire Burnham

Here’s how the library successfully translated present in person teaching to online delivery using Canvas Quizzes and LibWizard.

Business School Student Voice

Posted on 8th January 20218th September 2021 by nsf102

Careful recruitment of student reps, providing a framework and consistency across the Business School for student voice. Enabling students to have structure to what they are trying to achieve and how the Business School would expect them to operate.

Digitising Present in Person Material

Posted on 18th December 20208th September 2021 by nsf102

Around 25 face to face lectures and a further 12 to 15 tutorial sessions were condensed down to just seven live sessions. This was a golden opportunity to flip teaching, something that was talked about and something that has been considered for some time.