1. Using technology to enable collaboration and team work in learning and teaching sessions
Presentation by
Glenn Duckworth,
Learning Technologist, FBL
21 June 2016

2. About this session
Provide some basic information on Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) for collaboration and team work – short presentation
Take part in a few ‘hands on’ team tasks
Try out some of the technology in the room
Discuss your thoughts on this type of environment for
enabling outstanding learning
encouraging student engagement

3. What is active learning?
Learning by doing
Increasing engagement
Skills enhancement
Increasing employability
All of this relevant to UWE’s 2020 strategy
Approaches – quite different to traditional teaching:
Student centred
Task based
Team based
Practice oriented
Types of activity:
Simulations
Real life scenarios
Online research
Working as a team to produce a product

4. TEAL environments
A need for appropriate learning spaces for technology enhanced active learning…
Opportunities for collaboration
Appropriate technology on hand

5. Traditional PC labs Provide technology, but…
…are they useful for collaboration and team work?

6. Traditional seminar rooms
lack technology for student use
And some don’t provide much opportunity for collaboration.

7. Seminar rooms with collaborative tables
More scope for collaborative work here?
But still a lack of technology for student groups/teams (this is 3B064 pre-TEAL conversion)

8. TEAL rooms Collaborative tables and technology
This is 3B064, a basic, low cost TEAL room

9. TEAL rooms Collaborative tables and technology
This is 3C002 – a higher spec installation – acting as pilot for FBL new build

10. Characteristics of a successful TEAL session
Based on research and case studies:
May involve flipped classroom – or upside-down pedagogies
Tutor acts as facilitator/coach rather than ‘giver of knowledge’
Brief intro,
but then minimal ‘front of class’ – may act as chair/moderator later on
Tasks – Structured and well planned. Team focussed, practice oriented – ‘real world’ tasks
Peer assistance, evaluation and discussions – within teams and between teams
Screen sharing, other interactive technologies

11. A wider context
A tried and tested approach… Has been in use in the USA for some time.
200+ Universities make use of tech enhanced active learning classrooms in the US – e.g.:
SCALE-UP project at North Carolina State (Student Centred Active Learning Environments with Upside-down Pedagogies)
TEAL at MIT (Technology Enhanced Active Learning)
TILE at Iowa (Transform, Interact, Learn. Engage)
But a relatively new approach for UK universities – e.g.:
TBL at Bradford University (Team Based Learning)
TEAL approaches at the University of Portsmouth
SCALE-UP approaches at Nottingham Trent University
Active Learning at Wolverhampton University

12. Using technology to enable collaboration and team work in learning and teaching sessions
Presentation by
Glenn Duckworth,
Learning Technologist, FBL
21 June 2016