Digital Teaching and Technology Enhanced Learning in HE

  “ 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...