TEL:US Podcast

Celia Popovic is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, Canada. In 2019 Celia took part in a SoTL project exploring support for faculty and included undergrad students in the process. Prior to recording this podcast, Celia led a seminar for colleagues at the University of Sussex. 

In this chat we picked up some themes from the seminar and from her published articles on this research.

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Final year Psychology Student also work with the organisation Sussex Writes, penned a blog post about how to teach students online. Aimed at those teaching young people, the guidance though, is equally applicable to higher education. 

Given that nearly all teaching is now online, I spoke to Chloe about her top tips and her experience as a student during the pandemic. 

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How to help students over Zoom...

In what now seems a distant memory, our last on campus seminar was the first of the DARE to Transform seminars. Sessions to support colleagues who are on the Scholarship track at the University.

In this session Professor Pam Parker joined us from City, University of London to give an introduction to scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). You can watch a recording of the event here. For more information about the DARE to Trans...

In this episode I caught up with Eric Stoller, VP of Digital Strategy for GeckEngage. We talked digital transformation, what that means for digital skills, chatbots, recruitment and much more.

If you would like to get in touch with Eric, you can do so directly through the GeckoEngage website. 

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• Eric Stoller (Twitter)
• GeckoEngage (Twitter)
• Dan Axson (Twitter)
• Technology Enhanced Learning (Twitter)
• Inside Higher ...

In this show I caught up with fellow learning technologists Matt and Paolo to discuss the various conferences and training events we attended over the last couple of weeks. Including BETT, AUA, Microsoft Teams and the Assistive Technology Network meet up.

I also chat to our head of Technology Enhanced learning David Walked and relatively new member of staff Faye Tucknott (I may or may not have needed to ask how best to say her surn...

In this show Dan caught up with Beth Logan from the Library to discuss next week's Digital Discovery Week. Find out abut the week, the highlights and how you can get involved.

Links:

- Digital Discovery Week schedule and booking: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/about/digital

- Beth Logan

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hey_Bethany

- Dan Axson

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/danaxson

- Library

• Web:...

Keith Smyth is a Professor of Pedagogy and Head of the Learning and Teaching Academy at the University of the Highlands and Islands,

Keith visited sunny Sussex for our Summer South Coast Meet Up event in July. In this show Kitty and Paolo caught up with Keith at the event and talked about his book, digital transformation, digital skills and much more. 

The book can be found here: Conceptualising the Digital University: The int...

Dan and Kitty chat about the last series of the podcast. Picking out some highlights and give you a sneak peek at what you can expect from the next season starting in September.

Thank you for listening this last year, if you haven't already please subscribe where you listen and get in touch through Twitter @SussexTEL @danaxson or @kittyrhorne

Digital Digital Discovery Week Special with Rorden Wilkinson

Online Distance Learning...

Dan Axson and Kitty Horne caught up with Dr Maren Deepwell, CEO of ALT, Mary Agnes Krell, Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies and Dr Tamsin Hinton-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education. We talk about all things technology, learning technology, favorite shortcuts and apps we couldn't live without. 

We also discuss their formative technology experiences, how technology and equality are an embedded aspect of the PGCert...

Daniel is a PHD Student at the University of Sussex, working on tangible interfaces amongst other things in the Sussex Computer Human Interaction lab. As part of our Digital Accessibility series I caught up with Daniel about his experience of losing his sight at age 17. A crucial time in education and just as he was planning his university journey.

Daniel talks about his experience of this, the challenges and how he was supported, ...

On this show I had the opportunity to chat to Dawn Green, Development Co-ordinator at the Karten Network. Dawn also chairs the technology steering group, which meets to support the work of Natspec and the TechAbility service. More details of which can be found below. 

I didn't have long with Dawn, so this provides a brief overview of the work of the Karten Network. I strongly encourage you to find out more about the network, t...

Dr. David Sloan has been working in the field of digital accessibility and inclusive design for nearly 20 years. In February he visited the University  of Sussex to talk to staff about how we as an organisation and as individuals can build our own capability in this space. 

After his seminar I caught up with David to ask about how he got in to this field, how the landscape has changed over the last 20 years and how it mig...

In this episode of the TEL:US podcast, Kitty Horne and I chat to René Moolenaar about his experiences of teaching one of the universities first online distant learning modules. We talk about the ways in which he builds community, promotes peer interaction and how simple tool available in Canvas help him to do this. 

I also introduce two new features of the podcast; Shortcut of the Show and App of the Show. I'm a big fan of lit...