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Pedagogy with Technology | University of Birmingham

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Pedagogy with Technology: Getting the Horse out in Front of the Cart
Dr. Simon Bates, University of British Columbia

'Purposefully incorporating technology into the learning design of undergraduate programmes and courses has the potential for huge benefits in terms of enhancing student engagement, achievements and flexibility of when, where and with whom that learning takes place. However, all too often, incorporation of learning technology in undergraduate teaching can look and feel like an add-on, placing the technology ahead of the pedagogy. This becomes increasingly problematic in an environment where there exist strong drivers for change, for example from the rapidly-evolving technology landscape itself and from the expectations of the increasingly hyper-connected student cohorts. Whilst institutional strategy and initiatives can define a direction of travel towards meeting these challenges, the point of implementation -- where it can actually make a difference to student learning -- resides within the courses taught by departments. With this in mind, I will describe one such course-based intervention that has been deployed extensively across different disciplines and institutions, whereby students become co-creators of assessment content, rather than just consumers of it. Utilising a freely-available online tool developed at the University of Auckland (www.peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz), students on a particular course are able to create, share, answer and discuss their own assessment questions with their peers. I will present data that indicates a high level of student engagement, correlation between use of the system and end of course outcomes together with evidence that, if suitably supported, students are capable of creating sophisticated and challenging problems far beyond mere factual recall or memorization.'

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2013 marked the 10th anniversary of the annual Teaching and Learning Conference at the University of Birmingham which was held over two days, Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 June 2013. It was primarily located in the newly refurbished Learning Centre, with keynote addresses occurring in Haworth 101 and Mechanical Engineering G31.

The event explored tangible outputs from the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) theme and the implementation of a new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

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