Obtaining and using images and videos to enliven your unit content can be frustrating and a copyright minefield! However, searching for images and videos with Creative Commons licences can make the hunt for useable content easier. Creative Commons (CC) licenses are designed to make the rules around re-use of content very clear to everyday people […]

Each year, the University of Tasmania recognises excellence in teaching with Teaching Merit Certificates.  In early 2014,  11 TSBE staff were awarded Teaching Merit Certificates. Teaching @ TSBE will present a series of interviews with Certificate recipients. For the first interview in the Excellence in Teaching series, we asked Dr Vitali Alexeev about the Teaching Merit Certificate […]

MyLO allows you to easily include images and YouTube videos in a variety of items, including News, Discussion posts, Module pages and descriptions, Quizzes and more. These instructions explain how to embed images from the web or from you computer (refer to Parts A and B). Information about embedding YouTube videos is also included (refer to Part C). Tam has […]

A lack of disciplinary vocabulary can be a significant set-back for students as they  listen to lectures, complete readings and construct assessment tasks. Here are some activities that could help students become familiar with the language of your discipline. OPTION 1: Pop quiz Get students to complete a MyLO Quiz at the end of a recorded lecture […]