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) 

Show links:

Dr. Kevin Merry (Academic Development pages)

De Montfort University (UDL Pages)

Fiona MacNeill

University of Brighton eLEARNING Team blog

Matt Taylor

Dan Axson

University of Sussex Technology Enhanced Learning on Twitter

CAST UDL Guidelines

Kevin's talk for Global Accessibility Awareness Day

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

Celia's staff profile at York

Educational Developers Thinking Allowed

Link to seminar recording (Sussex staff only)

Get in touch with the show:

Sussex TEL on Twitter

Dan on Twitter

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)

Links:

How to help students over Zoom blog post

Sussex Writes blog

Sussex Writes website

Sussex Writes on Twitter

Technology Enhanced Learning on Twitter

Dan Axson on Twitter

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

Dr. David Walker

Dan Axson

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. 

Links

In this show I caught up with fellow learning technologists Matt and Paolo to discuss the various conferences and training events we attended over the last couple of weeks. Including BETT, AUA, Microsoft Teams and the Assistive Technology Network meet up.

I also chat to our head of Technology Enhanced learning David Walked and relatively new member of staff Faye Tucknott (I may or may not have needed to ask how best to say her surname!) about the Digital Practice Awards (DPAs). The DPAs is our annual grant giving initiative to support and promote innovation in teaching and learning with technology at the University of Sussex.

As ever you can check out the links below and get in touch with us on Twitter, details below. 

Sussex TEL

Dan Axson

Matt Taylor

Paolo Oprandi

Faye Tucknott

David Walker

In the final episode of the decade, I caught up with Ant Groves during Digital Discovery Week. I also sat down with some of our team to talk over our highlights of the academic year so far, and of the decade. 

Merry Christmas to all our listeners, we hope you have a wonderful festive season.

Thanks for listening.

In this show Dan caught up with Beth Logan from the Library to discuss next week's Digital Discovery Week. Find out abut the week, the highlights and how you can get involved.

Links:

- Digital Discovery Week schedule and booking: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/about/digital

- Beth Logan

- Dan Axson

- Library

- IT Services

- Careers and Employability Centre

- Technology Enhanced Learning:

Keith Smyth is a Professor of Pedagogy and Head of the Learning and Teaching Academy at the University of the Highlands and Islands,

Keith visited sunny Sussex for our Summer South Coast Meet Up event in July. In this show Kitty and Paolo caught up with Keith at the event and talked about his book, digital transformation, digital skills and much more. 

The book can be found here: Conceptualising the Digital University: The intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice.

Links:

Keith Smyth and is also on Twitter

Kitty Horne

Paolo Oprandi

Dan Axson

University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

The Learning and Teaching Academy at UHI

Dan and Kitty chat about the last series of the podcast. Picking out some highlights and give you a sneak peek at what you can expect from the next season starting in September.

Thank you for listening this last year, if you haven't already please subscribe where you listen and get in touch through Twitter @SussexTEL @danaxson or @kittyrhorne

Digital Digital Discovery Week Special with Rorden Wilkinson

Online Distance Learning with Rene Moolenaar

Digital Accessibility with David Sloan

Daniel Hajas

Transferable Skills with Mary Krell