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Webinar – Getting the Most out of Discussion Boards

This webinar ran twice on 17th June 2021, and we were happy to see colleagues from across the faculty and NUMed in attendance. The webinar covered: Have a range of discussion board task ideas to incorporate into your teaching  Understand techniques to encourage student engagement  Be able to set up different types of group discussion tasks  Colleagues can find the resources from the … Continue reading “Webinar – Getting the Most out of Discussion Boards”

Webinar – Getting the Most out of Discussion Boards

The FMS TEL team are proud to present our upcoming Webinar – Getting the Most out of Discussion Boards Thursday 17th June 20219am-10am and 1pm-2pm BST Discussion boards are very difficult to ‘get right’ and trying to encourage and maintain student participation can be a challenge. Students may be reticent to engage initially and it … Continue reading “Webinar – Getting the Most out of Discussion Boards”

Setting up different types of Discussions

The FMS TEL team recently delivered a webinar: Getting the most out of your discussion boards. If you can’t access the FMS TEL Canvas community, please enrol yourself before retrying the direct link. As a follow up to that webinar we have created follow along video guides and step by step written instructions on how … Continue reading “Setting up different types of Discussions”

FMS TEL Community in MLE

For some time we have had an FMS TEL Community within Canvas, where members of the FMS TEL team share guides and resources. However not all members in our faculty use Canvas so we decided to launch a second Community in our sister Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), the Medical Learning Environment (MLE). We have added … Continue reading “FMS TEL Community in MLE”

Conversations for Learning – Kay McAlinden

This case study concerns the current module Psychosocial Issues in Cancer and Palliative care (ONC8006) as it is taught in 2020-21 academic year. This module is part of the Cancer and Palliative care programme and as such deals with emotionally challenging topics, including breaking bad news, loss, responding with empathy, screening for distress, anxiety and … Continue reading “Conversations for Learning – Kay McAlinden”

From Blackboard and Ngage to Canvas

In the summer of 2020 Newcastle University switched from Blackboard to Canvas. In truth, some online modules had been hosted on Canvas months before the official launch, but from August 1st 2020 Canvas was the exclusive Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The content that had previously been in Blackboard was transferred over to Canvas, creating three … Continue reading “From Blackboard and Ngage to Canvas”

What is the value of being in the same room?

On 19th January I attended a TALKSocSci session run by the Institute of Social Science titled Learning and teaching in the digital, post-Covid era: what’s the benefit of being in the same room? The session was hosted by Professor Liz Todd and the speakers were Dr Pam Woolner and Christian Lawson-Perfect. The session comprised of … Continue reading “What is the value of being in the same room?”

Preparing for a new term

The FMS TEL Team work with schools across the faculty to maintain and improve our E-Learning offerings. At the moment, this is around 40 modules. Join us in this blog post for a behind the scenes peek in our last minute checks before publishing the new courses for September 2023. What have we already done? … Continue reading “Preparing for a new term”