Digital Teaching and Technology Enhanced Learning in HE

Microsoft Word (MS Word) is the most common software used for written assignments. In fact, in all my supervision experiences the students used MS Word.  In my supervision activities for example with the MSc Global Health, I work together with the student to ensure that she/he submits a dissertation, which firstly should pass, but ideally achieves more, and this is a co-constructed process ( Schreiber & Valle 2013) . The latter depends on what the student can input (e.g. time) and wants to get out of their studies. For example, I had one student who was very keen on learning more about academic research and writing, and she considered publishing her dissertation as a journal article. Knowing her aims I worked with her slightly differently by giving her additional feedback on where she would be cutting words (for when she will be writing a journal article), yet I worked with her overall the same way as with all my postgrad students, which is rooted in social constructivism and r...

  “ Microsoft Teams allows individual teams to self-organize and collaborate across business scenarios." ( Microsoft learn  2003)  I became aware that MS Teams was adopted in our institution during spring 2020 (when Lockdown started in the UK) to facilitate online video calls and course content delivery, which was much needed to reduce the spread of the COVID 19 virus.  Although there are a number of other video conferencing platforms such as Zoom or Googlemeet or Gotomeetings, our institution, which uses mainly Microsoft Office products decided to include MS Teams. The benefit of using the whole MS Office Suite means that MS Teams is smoothly integrated with Microsoft Outlook to set up and schedule meetings. It was in Summer 2021 I started supervising postgraduate students, so meeting them online rather than face-to-face has been the norm for me since.  In this respect, MS Teams is very instrumental as an online space to learn and collaborate. Apart from face-t...

I’m Dr Marianne Markowski and I work as a Research Fellow for the Institute for Lifecourse Development (ILD) at the University of Greenwich. Most of my work time I’m involved in research or research-related activities, but a considerable amount of my time is also spent with the supervision of postgraduate students in Health and Public Health. I further teach some lectures on the BA Digital Games Design Course, and I support the research skills module for undergraduate nurses with online and face-to-face seminars. The courses I support with my teaching and supervision skills are: RESE-1178 Research Methods for Games and Digital Media COMP-1287 Games Design and Development OMED-1416 Dissertation OMED-1357, OMED-1386 & OMED-1413  Healthcare Practice Dissertation RESE-1163 Project Preparation Skills and Research RESE-1173 Understanding Research in Evidence Based Practice My digital collection for “technology-enhanced learning” (TEL) is still emerging, therefore my collection is li...