Angélica Rísquez

In this session, James presents his experience and insights around coordinating and teaching on three research methods modules in combination, which implied managing large classes through a combination of cohorts in a single site. The student experience was enhanced by multiple self-assessment quizzes, mobile friendly tutorials, heavy use of multimedia and use of release conditions to provide a level of personalization.

In this session, Elaine provides great practical tips around good instructional design that include the principles of Universal Design for Learning when using Brightspace.

My Brightspace journey: lessons learnt. From pilot to mainstream, Claire showcases in this session how her instructional design practice evolved in a year, with great nuggets of practical advice along the way!

In this session we share our team teaching experience and learnings on pre-planning, designing and using Brightspace for a cross disciplinary module with a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Mags and Peter discuss their experience of developing the Glucksman Library Assignment Toolkit in Brightspace to support Students. The toolkit is designed to empower students with the confidence and ability to successfully complete their assignments and is available to all.

In this great session, Ingrid showcases excellent online teaching principles while reflecting on how Brightspace has enabled the design and facilitation process.

In her presentation, Sarah talks through the configuration of her module, which follows a flipped classroom approach. She showcases how she articulated the learning pathway for her students while integrating the use of Panopto and BigBlueButton in order to facilitate her blended learning approach.

In this first session of the second series of Show and TEL, Maura and Sinead present the Science and Engineering Community of Practice in Brightspace, which has been developed to address the practical and realistic support needs of academics as they get to grips with Brightspace and develop their teaching sites. It is also a space where they demonstrate good practices and design principles for online environments.

In this session, Angelica describes her use of Brightspace across two semesters, some tips and tricks to avoid some potential mistakes and keep it all consistent and simple. 

In this session, Paloma shares some great tips for embedding presentations and interactions within your Brightspace sites, making them the center of your teaching!

In this session, Erin tells us how she has combined the use of groups and discussions in Brightspace with other tools to facilitate continuous assessment, interaction and engagement in a large 4th year class.

In this session, Eoin shares his experience in Brightspace, both as a lecturer and as a student. He shares how he overcame some initial teething issues and some great insights and tips with using checklists, creating and embedding content.

In this session, Claire explains how she got started with Brightspace 'on the go', sharing her best practices for teaching her blended modules and her students' feedback so far.

In this session, Jill shares her learnings through her first experience of using Brightspace for a blended learning postgraduate programme and gives great encouragement and advice to others getting started.

In our first session in Show and TEL, Lorraine T Ryan from the Department of Work and Employment Relations (KBS) talks about her experience as a Course Director and lecturer with Brightspace.

By Angelica Risquez.
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