TEL:US Podcast

In this episode, I'm joined by Sussex TEL colleague Matt Taylor (Learning Technologist), Learning Technologist from Brighton Fiona MacNeill and Dr. Kevin Merry, Senior Academic Development Consultant at De Montfort University (DMU).

Kevin recently gave a seminar at Sussex about the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Journey at DMU. In this show we caught up with Kevin to pick up on some of the themes that came up during his talk.

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. 

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 Transform network please visit the Canvas site here.

In this podcast Dan sat down with with Pam after her seminar along with our very own David Walker (Head of TEL) to speak more on the topic of SoTL.

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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.

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.

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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. 

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.

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 PGCertHE and how the learning technology landscape has changed over the last 12 years.

A note on audio (again...). I couldn't mic everyone, so I thought I had enough coverage with the two table top mics and a Blue Snowball, however I forgot to press record on the iPad (for the Snowball) so apologies to Kitty, who has a very quiet audio as a result.

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, along with some tools he uses. Daniel finishes by giving some great advice.

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, the trust and the great work that results in their investments. 

Note: This was during a lunch break, so there is some background noise, apologies for that.

Until next time, thanks for listening.

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 might change over the next 20 and of course asked him for his favourite shortcut.

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 little wins that keyboard shortcuts can give. They are not the most exciting thing to talk about, so I've added reverb... 

Please let us know if you have any feedback about the podcast, likewise if you want to get involved or have a contender for Shortcut of the Show. 

Thanks for listening.

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