Classrooms
Student Driven Digital Teaching and Learning
1. Background
This Quintin Hogg Trust (QHT) funded project has at its heart the support, by students, of academic colleagues to make use of digital teaching facilities previously put in place with other QHT funds (see below for some background). To date this project has provided face to face support on-campus to over 50 academic staff and has produced a number of resources to help ensure sustainability of the project once funding ceases.
Pre-pandemic the QHT provided approximately £750,000 to help digitally enhance classrooms across the Westminster estate. This led to to the creation of Advanced Active Learning Classrooms (AALCs) such as that shown in the image below, in each major university building.
In addition to funding the development of a small number of AALCs the QHT funds also enabled the university to purchase screen sharing equipment for up to 100 more standard active learning classrooms, such as that shown in the image below. This equipment allows for the display of output electronically to the main screen(s) in each room thus facilitating the sharing of individual or group output to the wider class group.
2. Resources for Colleagues
2a Micro-Online Course on Making Active Learning Classrooms Work
Working through this online course will take you no more than 1 hour. In doing so you will gain an appreciation of the main features of both Advanced and Basic Active Learning Classrooms. You will be able to see how the various technologies in these room are used. In addition, the course provides an overview of a number of different methodologies that can be used to help stimulate and drive group working.
Access the Micro-Online course – Making Active Learning Classrooms Work
2b Watch and Listen to Students Speaking about Active Learning Classrooms
2c Academic Colleague Case Studies from Active Learning Classrooms
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