Sabbatical blog:I beg to differ

If only, as a tutor, you could speak to each student at a crucial time (for them) in their study time, to remind them to prepare for a lecture, to reinforce key messages and NOT have your email go straight to the spam folder.  What would you give for that?

SCREEN GRAB FROM https://www.differ.chat/

Academics, Learning designers and social media experts have come together at EdTech Foundry in Oslo, Norway, to offer tutors a new way of engaging students.

OUT goes the antiquated, static and inflexible Learning Management System (LMS) and IN comes DIFFER.

Why keep an old LMS that students only use to download lecture slides and fail to engage with when you can facilitate delivery of materials, engage, remind, prompt and feedback using a newer technology?

OK - so RISK is there in new technologies but there is also RISK in standing on the rails when the tram is hurtling towards you.