Blended Learning
The University of Westminster leverages digital tools like mobile learning, Google Sites and Blackboard to create a flexible and innovative educational environment. These resources enhance collaboration, engagement and accessibility, ensuring students have the tools they need to succeed. By integrating these technologies, the University supports dynamic and interactive learning experiences across various disciplines.
Empowering Learning
Learning at the University of Westminster empowers students to engage with their studies in new and innovative ways, offering greater flexibility in group work, co-creation, workflows and collaboration. By leveraging cutting-edge digital tools, students can enhance their learning experiences both inside and outside the classroom.
The University provides access to a range of powerful resources that support mobile learning. These include:
Google sites and active student learning
At the University of Westminster, active student learning is a priority, and Google Sites plays a significant role in supporting this approach. Google Sites is a versatile tool that allows students and educators to create collaborative websites easily. By using Google Sites, students can actively engage in their learning through project-based activities, group work and content creation, all of which align with the University’s commitment to practical, inquiry-based and socially engaged teaching.
Key benefits of using Google Sites for Active Learning:
By integrating Google Sites into their coursework, students at the University of Westminster can take a more active role in their learning, leading to a richer educational experience that prepares them for real-world challenges.
Integrating Publisher resources in Blackboard
At the University of Westminster, integrating publisher resources into Blackboard enhances the learning experience by providing students with seamless access to high-quality content and interactive tools. Publishers like Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Cengage offer a wealth of digital resources, including eTextbooks, quizzes, videos and interactive simulations, all of which can be integrated directly into Blackboard courses.
Key Benefits of Integrating Publisher Resources:
Resources
iPads in the classroom
In 2013 the London Knowledge Lab published a literature review into use of iPads for learning in the compulsory education sector. Many of the findings in the literature review and executive summary are transferrable to post-compulsory sectors.
Technology enhanced learning (TEL) toolkit
Tools and resources from the HEA to support the integration of technology enhanced learning in your teaching.
7-things-you-should-know-about-flipped-classrooms
A resource produced by EDUCAUSE.
Flipped classroom offers the opportunity to re-think how you deliver content to students, usually to take the content delivery side of teaching and learning out of the classroom, or lecture theatre, using pre-recorded lecture videos instead, and using the valuable face-to-face time for activities that build upon the content. The student-centred approach of flipped classroom offers a way for students to take part in deeper learning, engaging with the application of theories and concepts from the content video, in a supported environment and approaching the material in their own time and at their own pace.
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