Enhancing your use of Brightspace staff sessions - Workshop 3: Embedding interactivities and rich content in your learning and teaching

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 3 will cover: 

This workshop, which will include demonstrations on embedding rich media including videos, podcasts and LinkedIn Learning in Brightspace units/modules, will also, importantly focus on why this is a valid approach to online teaching. The session will also touch on Talis reading lists and the Library service in general, as well as potentially looking at making more creative use of announcements.
• Brightspace can host many types of multimedia – which can in turn really help to liven up a module/ encourage engagement, and there are many options for discovering such resources as a member of UHI staff (including using tools such as LinkedIn Learning which we subscribe to). 
• An overlapping feature of each tool looked at in this session, will be the potential use of UHI approved Generative AI tools (GAI). Embarking on creating a number of pedagogically sound quizzes, for example, is a time-consuming task – and this expense might be what is keeping some from embracing the tool. GAI tools can be used here to help get the ball rolling, to help with question creation and/or a literature review to build up a rationale for the approach. Clearly, there’s a point where getting a head start can blur into overreliance but that is no reason to ignore the potential (students face the same dilemma).

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. 

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