Our wide range of support and digital resources aim to make day-to-day teaching more engaging and accessible for all, providing educators with the tools they need to enhance the learning experience for their students. Image DYNAMED The DYNAMED project is an initiative set up to provide multimedia teaching resources to meet the demands and requirements of our student population. Using QR codes in the immediate vicinity to offer in-situ access to content, it removes the need to leave the practical environment to access relevant data. The approach is of particular benefit in our clinical skills laboratories where students can, for example, use the QR code in the middle of practicing a technique to see a video of the ‘right way’ to do things. Image General Video Production The department is heavily involved in the delivery of high-quality video resources. We have many years of experience in all stages of video production from planning and pedagogical integration to project management, as well as scripting, filming, lighting, audio, editing and postproduction techniques. These skills are regularly put to the test in a broad range of unexpected and complex ways to produce teaching videos for the broad scope of subject areas covered within veterinary medicine and the associated subjects we engage with. We also offer practical techniques training and provide advice to our teaching colleagues to help them produce their own video content. Image Remote Observation An important part of the role we provide within the school is creative problem solving and the adaptation or repurposing of technology for educational use. This strategy has itself been repurposed for the benefit of patient supervision during busy periods in the intensive care unit as well as for observation and direct feedback during client simulation events for Communications Skill training. Image Lecture Recording – Media Hopper Create/Replay Members of the Digital Education Unit support the School’s use of the Media Hopper Replay lecture recording service. The service is heavily used to record on-campus lectures for the School’s BVM&S, and other programmes, allowing students to catch up on points they may have missed to deepen learning and understanding, support exam preparation, or prepare for lessons. Further information: Media Hopper Replay This article was published on 2024-09-02
