This year I have been using Poll Everywhere in my teaching. Poll Everywhere is an audience response system which allows students to answer a variety of questions in class using their own phones, tablets…
Posts By Rachael-Anne Knight
RISES programme for Principal Fellowship of the HEA
This post was inspired by Lorna Saunder’s post about the RISES programme, earlier this year, which encouraged me to share my experience of the programme (Thanks, Lorna!). This academic year, I was really grateful to…
VLEs vs. social networking for learning
This week I attended the Westminster Higher Education Forum on technology in higher education. There were a number of interesting presentations and discussions with contributions from across the sector. One particular aspect of interest concerned…
Student writing – the benefits of freewriting
Many students find the writing process difficult. Despite having completed A levels or other qualifications, it is quite common to find students somewhat mystified by the writing required at university. This is particularly the…