Author: Kizzy Beaumont
School/Directorate/Research Institute: Keele Institute for Innovation and Teaching Excellence
Abstract: Within the Student Learning department at Keele University, we have launched a series of university-wide freestanding workshops focusing on developing academic practice. Alongside this, Google Classroom was used to create a blended approach to these workshops, providing an online community for students to share and open dialogue around topics discussed during workshops. The aim was to bring students from different faculties together and create a sense of community surrounding enhancement of academic practice.
We selected Google Classroom for its intuitive and accessible interface for both staff and students, and its ability to create an online community. From both a student and staff perspective feedback was very positive. Students engaged in discussions, answered and posed questions to incite discussion, and gave feedback on resources. There is still much to do and learn in establishing whether Google Classroom can be used effectively in creating a sense of community through the shared want to improve academic practice. This conference paper will demonstrate how we have used Google Classroom whilst sharing frameworks for colleagues to explore in their own practice.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
