Case Study: Personalising Inductions for Distance Learners

This case study highlights how the use of Blackboard Collaborate helped a tutor to provide a more personalised induction to students on a distance learning course. Students on this course were physically based all over the world and the tutor wanted to find a synchronous approach to communicating with his students. Having selected Blackboard Collaborate…

Case Study: Creating Online Accreditation Portfolios

This case study explores the use of Google Sites to support students in developing online portfolios of evidence for professional accreditation. The tutor was looking for a way to reduce the need for students to collate large amounts of paper documents and for staff to distribute these during marking and moderation. The tutor also recognised that…

Case Study: Encouraging Reflective Writing through Blogging

This case study explores the use of student blogging to help students develop skills in reflection, particularly in reflective writing, and highlights how this approach can be used to ease the transition of students into higher education. The tutor wanted a way that would support students through their first few weeks at university and provide a…

Case Study: Using Google Sites to provide an authentic learning experience

This case study explores the use of Google Sites to improve student engagement, authentic learning and employability.  The tutor wanted to find an innovative approach to engage students struggling to market their HR capability to employers during their placement seeking year. Students were put in to groups and asked to ‘create’ a company and develop an intranet site…

Case Study: Engaging students using online problem based learning

In this case study, a tutor from HWB shared her experiences of using an online problem based learning approach to promote the development of intrapreneurial (an individual intention or drive to innovate within an organisation, developing and implementing novel solutions to organisational problems) skills in health professionals undertaking a postgraduate module. The tutor found that…