Due to Covid-19 the University of Rochester realized that their popular in-person tours couldn’t take place - a serious blow to student recruitment. Research undertaken for the university website had proven that prospective students really valued these in-person tours, which give them an insight into living and studying at Rochester. Crucially, the choice to apply to or accept a place at Rochester was often made on the basis of connections made with current students during a campus visit.
University re-creates an authentic campus visit experience
Topics: Interactive video, Featured, virtual tour, 360, Spotlight, creativity, digital skills, higher education, Authentic Visit
ThingLink Education Spotlight: Choice Boards Help Students and Parents Organize Home Learning
We recently wrote about project ideas for developing students' creativity and digital storytelling skills at home and also ways that ThingLink is supporting flipped learning from across the globe. Our education community continues to impress us with new concepts and iterate on the examples. From the US to Scotland educators are sharing new home learning designs or 'choice boards' with differentiated activities and a less threatening approach for learners and their parents and carers.
Topics: How To, education, Spotlight, edtech, online learning, remote learning, creativity, teaching
Keele University uses ThingLink to ensure new students can still visit, tour and explore the campus
New ThingLink Spotlights!
We recently shared with you a blog post detailing ways colleges and universities are creating virtual tours and field trips overcoming current challenges. We wished to dive into this topic a little further and share with you some of our recent favourites and show how you can begin to recreate these yourself (and be a little bit playful with our format!) In this ThingLink Spotlight hear directly from Luke Hobson and how he creatively tackled some of the challenges all education establishments are finding at the moment.
Topics: How To, education, 360photos, virtual tour, Spotlight, edtech, Map, online learning, remote learning