Welcome to Episode 2, Season 2 of the INTO TEL Podcast. Hosts Glen and Coral from the INTO TEL team talk to three very special guests – Maarten Koeners and Adam Lusby from the University of Exeter and Yousuf Hindess from INTO University of Exeter about INNOPLAY.

INNOPLAY is designed to co-create and promote a culture that can foster play within the University by creating capacity for awareness, uptake, and exposure of play and playful learning; and Adam, Maarten and Yousuf have dropped by to tell us all about it.

To find out more about INNOPLAY, you can view their website.

In this first episode of Season 2 of the TEL podcast, the team discuss how you can incorporate technology into your classroom using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Coral, Glen and David discuss how considering UDL can improve the learning experience for all students, as well as provide some examples of UDL in practice.

This is a short preview of Season 2, Episode 1: Bringing Technology into the Classroom Using UDL Principles.

In this episode Tab Betts, Yusuf Dirie, Ellis Taylor and Coral Condeco-Dunachie discuss the future of Educational Technology. From robots through VR to open education pedagogies; the team discuss what they would like to see the future look like.

In this episode Ellis, Coral, Tab and Yusuf discuss the role of the Learning Technologist in education; considering them as a 'learning companion' for a teacher.

In this episode the team discuss what it might be like returning to the classroom after the covid-19 pandemic and consider some of the technologies and ideas we might continue to use from our digital lessons.

In this extra special 30 minute episode, Coral, Tab, Yusuf and Ellis discuss some of their favourite tools for teaching online. Some of the tools covered are Discussion Forums, Flocabulary, Quizzes, Screenrecording and Flipgrid. 

In this episode, we continue our discussion on extended reality in online teaching from our previous episode. Tab, Coral, Ellis and Yusuf discuss ideas for implementing extended realities into your teaching and provide some more tools to help you do this.

In this episode Coral, Ellis, Tab and Yusuf discuss the use of Extended Reality in teaching. Extended reality covers Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. In this first episode, the team discuss what these terms means and potential tools we can use for implementing this in an online classroom. Part 2 will follow in two weeks.

In this episode Learning Technologists Tab Betts, Yusuf Dirie and Ellis Taylor discuss the design and use of asynchronous tasks in online teaching. They provide some tips and ideas for how to integrate activities into your learning content.