Enhancing your use of Brightspace staff sessions - Workshop 2: Creating peer-peer support and collaboration opportunities

Session Outline

The UHI Learning and Teaching Academy are running a workshop series that will provide opportunities for staff across the Academic Partnership to explore the VLE Brightspace in relation to supporting student engagement, retention and collaboration.

Workshop 2 will cover: 

This workshop will explore some of the collaborative tools in Brightspace, including Discussions, and Groups (and supporting group working in general). Collaboration is also a key component of peer engagement, peer review and feedback, the session will explore with participants:
• Using a mixture of demonstration, conversation and hands-on tasks, we will look at how well set up Brightspace is to allow for collaboration in many ways (and formats). 
• Success in this area of online activity does not come automatically, there is also a definite need for support, facilitation and guidance. We will also touch on how staff may approach those needs within this context.

Further information is available in the programme. 

We have aligned the workshops to the Standards for Lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges and colleagues can use the LTA mapping resource to see engagement in the workshops also aligns to the Advance HE Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023).

Presenter

Andrew Gibson

Andrew Gibson has worked with the university’s Learning and Teaching Academy for several years. Building on a Masters in Distance  Education, his work at UHI has involved analysing existing materials and methods used by teaching staff, supervising the creation of student-centred learning materials, and designing and delivering targeted staff development especially around Brightspace, accessibility and, recently, AI.

To Book

Please email events.lta@uhi.ac.uk to book a place on this event. This event is open to colleagues across the sector. 

Accessibility

We want to make this a positive experience for all participants and hope we have met everyone’s needs in joining this event. If you have particular access needs please contact us at lta@uhi.ac.uk so we can work together to get you as good an experience as we can.

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