TY - CONF

T1 - Using Microsoft Teams to enhance the digital learning environment

AU - Smith, Tamsyn

AU - Everitt, Charlotte

PY - 2019/6/21

Y1 - 2019/6/21

N2 - During 2017-18, a team from across the University of Southampton migrated the Online MA in English Language Teaching, an online programme aimed at practising English Language teachers in 25 countries around the world, to a new platform. The aim of this migration was to enhance and streamline the delivery of the programme. It also provided the opportunity to revise the structure of resources and improve the accessibility of materials. Now almost one year on from the relaunch of the course, course designers, academic staff and students are settled into the new course environment and are exploring ways to maximise use of the course’s new technological affordances in ways that enhance the learning experience and digital literacies of course participants. This poster will illustrate challenges we have encountered, as well as drawing out aspects from the project to make recommendations for courses seeking to enhance their digital learning environment and improve the digital literacies of their learners. The poster will: • Illustrate how the move was managed to allay fears of staff and students; • Include testimonials from staff and students involved in the project; • Show the new version of the course; • Demonstrate Microsoft Teams, including; o chat and discussion features; o how it can be used for webinars and tutorials with Skype for Business which includes screen-sharing functionality; o the MS Teams app; o accessibility features of Teams including the immersive reader; • Discuss how content sharing apps such as Padlet walls can be used.

AB - During 2017-18, a team from across the University of Southampton migrated the Online MA in English Language Teaching, an online programme aimed at practising English Language teachers in 25 countries around the world, to a new platform. The aim of this migration was to enhance and streamline the delivery of the programme. It also provided the opportunity to revise the structure of resources and improve the accessibility of materials. Now almost one year on from the relaunch of the course, course designers, academic staff and students are settled into the new course environment and are exploring ways to maximise use of the course’s new technological affordances in ways that enhance the learning experience and digital literacies of course participants. This poster will illustrate challenges we have encountered, as well as drawing out aspects from the project to make recommendations for courses seeking to enhance their digital learning environment and improve the digital literacies of their learners. The poster will: • Illustrate how the move was managed to allay fears of staff and students; • Include testimonials from staff and students involved in the project; • Show the new version of the course; • Demonstrate Microsoft Teams, including; o chat and discussion features; o how it can be used for webinars and tutorials with Skype for Business which includes screen-sharing functionality; o the MS Teams app; o accessibility features of Teams including the immersive reader; • Discuss how content sharing apps such as Padlet walls can be used.

M3 - Poster

ER -