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Knowledge Café’s, informal conversations, sharing teaching best practice

Desireé Cranfield Orcid Logo, David Gurteen

20th European Conference on Knowledge Management

Swansea University Author: Desireé Cranfield Orcid Logo

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Since March 2020, the pandemic has changed the way teaching within Higher Education in the UK and indeed the world, is conducted. A sudden shift to online teaching necessitated a rethink of the best teaching approaches and methods to engage students and support good student experience while using th...

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Published in: 20th European Conference on Knowledge Management
Published: Lisbon, Portugal 2020
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