Abstract:

As capture technologies become commonplace internationally across higher education institutions they have contributed to a growing realisation that learners require more opportunities for engagement in class, more effective feedback from instructors and more authentic learning activities. Educators are now seeking new solutions to combine these technologies with emerging polling, discussion and note-taking tools to enhance active learning for in-class and online learners. With these approaches, students can benefit from a new focus on their metacognitive skills to improve how they learn across different settings. Meanwhile, academics have rich analytics data at their finger-tips to improve student support and to reflectively adapt their teaching.

This session will highlight the advantages of active blended learning approaches and pose questions about how capture technology can support them. Case studies from different countries will be presented to outline how capture technology has been put to use; this will be used to stimulate discussions about the experience of learners and teachers in making this a success and the impact on learning. Some practical ideas will be shared and an evidence base of literature introduced to support colleagues in contextualising and developing their own pedagogical approaches.

Keywords:

Active learning, learning capture, classroom, flipped learning, collaboration, engagement.