TELT Bookmarks: Summer Reading List
As we approach the end of the academic year and shift into summer mode, we’re excited to share our curated TELT Summer Reading List!
TELT summer reading list image of an open book on the grass
This is a collection of some of the inspiring links exchanged via our MS Teams chats over the year. We hope these will hold your interest over your summer whether you’re poolside, traveling, or having a staycation.
If you've come across something interesting online (TEL related!) why not share it with us, we’d love to hear from you—drop us a line at telt@qmul.ac.uk and help us grow the list!
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Around QMUL
Did you know that at least one in five people in the UK have a long-term illness, impairment or disability, with many more having a temporary disability? By making our digital content accessible for our students and for all, we’re opening up the opportunities and services we offer to everyone. The Content and Brand Team at QMUL have developed an Accessibility Hub for staff.
What does it really mean to be a student at QMUL? In this article, QMSU’s Student Voice team sat down one-to-one with students from all corners of the University. Read about the different themes that evolved and what makes our students most proud to be a QMUL student.
And just for fun, here is a novel story on LinkedIn by Rob Briner, Prof of Organizational Psychology.
Lots of great articles in the latest Digital Education Studio (DES) Newsletter, including:
BodySwaps is an immersive training platform that uses Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help learners develop essential soft skills in a psychologically safe and reflective environment.
The efforts to engage students in knowledge sharing and co-construction of knowledge start with learning design decisions and the choice of learning environment.
The Queen Mary Academy also had some great articles that the team shared, including:
Read how a programme in Business Management have incorporated experiential learning. There module aims to enhance the development of graduate attributes including AI literacy, decision-making, teamwork, and critical thinking through the use of a business simulation.
The Queen Mary Academy's Assessment Toolkit for QMUL is intended to help you design a new piece of assessment or review an existing assessment design. It is choke full of ideas and one not to be missed.
This resource has different types of feedback, tools for developing students’ feedback literacy, strategies for improving feedback in the classroom and ideas of how to use feedback for engaging students.
Beyond QMUL
Every time you ask ChatGPT a question or generate an AI image, you’re tapping into powerful servers that burn energy, consume water, and leave a real-world carbon footprint.
The Moodle Double Marking Project is an initiative aimed at enhancing Moodle’s assessment capabilities...
- How do Higher Education staff understand the terms Hybrid, Hyflex and Blended Learning Choice, modality and uncertainty
A research article from the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) after surveying 152 Higher Education staff to investigate how HE staff understand these terms and identify confusion.
Marking and feedback are essential but time-intensive parts of the education process. As such we’re launching a new project to help the sector explore how AI can support staff and reduce workload in these areas.
Not one article, but a magazine full! Dirtyword is the magazine aimed at anybody with even the slightest interest in e-learning. Created by e-learning bods, for e-learning bods, Dirtyword shines a spotlight on the good, the bad and the ugly of the e-learning industry. Worth a read, and even a subscription.
News story: