16:00-17:00, Wednesday 15 October | Building 27/2001, Highfield Campus
Professor Simon Lancaster, University of East Anglia, was the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Higher Teaching Education Award in 2013 and also became an HE Academy National Teaching Fellow in the same year for his innovative use of technology to engage, challenge and enthuse students by blurring the boundaries between the lecture theatre and the internet. He was an early pioneer of lecture capture and led a programme to record the majority of first year undergraduate lectures.
Building on these foundations, he founded Chemistry Vignettes as a platform for academics to host edited interactive screencasts available as open educational resources. He is currently exploring means to engage students as partners in producing vignette-like teaching resources funding by a Higher Education Academy grant.
Combining screencasting with audience response technologies, Professor Lancaster has demonstrated a facile entry into the ‘flipped’ teaching mode, which is proving to be engaging for students and liberating for lecturers. Simon is a prolific user of Twitter and has also been involved in the development of MOOCs at the University of East Anglia.
Both staff and students are welcome to attend the event, with no need to book in advance. For more information email: [email protected]