Overview
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is about using technology to help students achieve learning outcomes in a course by positively influencing their learning behaviour, as well as enhancing their knowledge construction and social interaction. Throughout the years, the Centre for Teaching Excellence have been helping faculty members to develop innovative TEL Projects that help to drive and achieve course learning outcomes. These projects involve a variety of media including, games, simulations, learning objectives, virtual reality applications, web applications and many more.
Our Innovation
The various TEL Projects encompass a wide variety of applications, catering to numerous different courses and learning outcomes. The Centre of Teaching Excellence provides development and pedagogical support when developing these projects with faculty members. TEL Projects often also come with an accompanying case and teaching note for ease of implementation within a class. The accompanying materials often have a lesson plan and a guide for discussion questions to be used when implementing the project.
Benefits
- Improved student engagement: Interactive and immersive learning experiences increase student motivation and participation.
- Personalized learning: Projects allow for tailored learning paths and real-time feedback, catering to individual students' needs.
- Enhanced collaboration: TEL Projects with multiplayer or multi-user features facilitate communication and teamwork among students, promoting social learning.
Applications
- Flipped classrooms: Learning objects and interactive content enable students to learn at their own pace, freeing up class time for discussions and hands-on activities.
- Gamification: Games, simulations and gamification projects promote engagement, encourage healthy competition, and develop problem-solving skills.
- Microlearning: Bite-sized learning modules facilitate just-in-time learning, helping students to fill knowledge gaps and reinforce understanding.
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