SOLUTIONS LABS
Solutions Lab is a programme of collaborative sessions led by our ‘Collaborators’ –
teachers who have something very simple, accessible and practical to share.
Solutions Lab 35: Transformational Learning – Integrating Bundyi Girri into the Curriculum
As part of the Bundyi Girri project, staff from across the college have been exploring ways to include Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing in their curricula. By doing so, we not only take important steps in our own Reconciliation journeys, but we also support...
Solutions Lab 34: Virtual Telehealth Placements for Exercise & Sports Science Students
With the campus closed and access to most workplaces, public services and facilities restricted, it has been a real challenge to ensure students can benefit from WIL/ placement experiences in their courses. Moreover, with restrictions placed on the number of...
Solutions Lab 33: Better teaching through silliness and storytelling: Using performance techniques to improve student engagement and satisfaction
Learning online has been a stressful experience for a lot of our students this year – not only have they had to quickly adapt to studying in isolation and collaborating in online spaces, but also to re-frame how they perceive and connect with their lecturers. Whilst...
Solutions Lab 32: Oral vivas, online, at scale: Transforming the assessment experience
For many disciplines, the fact that remote, online learning prevents invigilated examinations is a difficult problem to overcome. Early in the pandemic experience, remote proctoring tools emerged as a viable solution, but they have received strong criticism on grounds...
Solutions Lab 31: Using Augmented Reality (AR) tools to enhance student learning
Augmented Reality (AR) has a plethora of applications in teaching and learning and has been a key area of educational innovation in the last five years. The COVID pandemic, which has forced us all online, has amplified the potential for AR tools to be used to enhance...
Solutions Lab 30: Improving Engagement & Supporting Deep Learning via Weekly ‘Reflective Provocations’
Getting students to think critically and connectively about concepts and topics can be a real challenge in the online environment. Text-based tools like quizzes and discussion boards are commonly used to facilitate deep learning, but not all students engage with them...
Solutions Lab 29: Using AI Voice-Overs to Deliver Lecture Content
In the online teaching environment, it is really important to ensure that our recorded audio-visual materials are accessible; this is important for all students, but especially those with disabilities, learning preferences or language needs. Narrations must be easy to...
Solutions Lab 28: Building a Strong Feedback Approach for Research Methods Teaching
The move to online teaching has led to some great innovations in assessment practice across the college; staff have made creative changes, giving hundreds of students a more personalised, inclusive and engaging assessment experience. For many teaching teams, this has...
Solutions Lab 27:Teaching, Learning & Assessing Labs Online-Two Stories from Chemistry
Staff working in lab-based disciplines have had to work quickly and creatively to transition to virtual and online teaching this year. Faced with the challenge of giving students an authentic as possible lab experience, they have had to create new resources and...
Solutions Lab 26: Online Tutorials – Thinking beyond a ’Q&A’
Teaching online has made us think about how we design and deliver classes. As we struggle to make timetables, curricula and technology work in the virtual world, some important questions emerge: What needs to be ‘live’? What does ‘active learning’ look like? How do we...
Could you be a Solutions Lab Collaborator?
All you need is the story – an idea, approach or experience that you think other people would benefit from. No idea is too small – indeed the simpler, the better! We will be on hand to help co-host the session and produce the slides/resources etc.
This is a great opportunity to come together as a community and generate resources and conversations that are useful and valued. Join us and let’s see what we can create together!
Email Natasha Taylor or Lisa Curran if you are interested in running a session.
