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. Transcript (Box link) [https://sussex.box.com/s/45k2bw8mdsq0m02vpg1x1w3s2b3eai8d] Show links: Dr. Kevin Merry (Academic Development pages) [https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/professional-services/academic-professional-development/academic-professional-development-home.aspx] De Montfort University (UDL Pages) [https://www.dmu.ac.uk/current-students/student-experience/udl.aspx] Fiona MacNeill [https://twitter.com/fmacneill?lang=en] University of Brighton eLEARNING Team blog [https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearningteam/] Matt Taylor [https://twitter.com/mrmjct] Dan Axson [https://twitter.com/danaxson] University of Sussex Technology Enhanced Learning on Twitter [https://twitter.com/sussextel] CAST UDL Guidelines [https://udlguidelines.cast.org/?utm_source=castsite&lutm_medium=web&utm_campaign=none&utm_content=aboutudl] Kevin's talk for Global Accessibility Awareness Day [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/tel/seminar/approaches_to_embedding_accessibility]

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. Links: Celia on Twitter [https://twitter.com/celia_popovic] Celia's staff profile at York [https://edu.yorku.ca/edu-profiles/index.php?mid=993242] Educational Developers Thinking Allowed [https://edta.info.yorku.ca] Link to seminar recording [https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/courses/14472/pages/celia-popovic-turning-the-tables-supporting-sotl-and-involving-students] (Sussex staff only) Get in touch with the show: Sussex TEL on Twitter [https://twitter.com/SussexTEL] Dan on Twitter [https://twitter.com/danaxson]

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. Transcript (pdf) [https://sussex.box.com/v/telustranscripts4e1] Links: How to help students over Zoom blog post [https://sussexwrites.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/how-to-help-students-over-zoom/] Sussex Writes blog [https://sussexwrites.wordpress.com] Sussex Writes website [http://www.sussexwrites.org] Sussex Writes on Twitter [https://twitter.com/SussexWrites] Technology Enhanced Learning on Twitter [https://twitter.com/sussextel] Dan Axson on Twitter [https://twitter.com/danaxson]

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. People in this podcast Professor Pam Parker [https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/pam-parker] Dr. David Walker [https://twitter.com/drdjwalker] Dan Axson [https://twitter.com/danaxson]

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 [https://howdy.geckoengage.com/eric]. Links * Eric Stoller (Twitter) [https://twitter.com/EricStoller] * GeckoEngage (Twitter) [https://twitter.com/GeckoEngage] * Dan Axson (Twitter) [https://twitter.com/danaxson] * Technology Enhanced Learning (Twitter) [https://twitter.com/SussexTEL] * Inside Higher Ed [https://www.insidehighered.com/] * The Lego Movie [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/] * Jisc Digital Capabilities [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability]