Lecture capture update

I attended a very timely lecture capture event yesterday organised by my ex-colleague Juliet Hinrichsen at Coventry in support of their JISC ELTAC project. The focus of the event, attended by representatives of some of the institutions that have really scaled up their use of automated lecture capture (LSE, Newcastle, Birmingham), was on staff developmentRead more

Learn – have your say

Following on from Rich Goodman’s post last month regarding the Learn suggestion system, I thought I’d post a quick reminder to colleagues to keep visiting the pages to see what’s new.  There are now around 30 suggested enhancements to vote / comment on so please do log in and have your say on proposed changes.Read more

E-Learning for all

If you’re wondering what e-learning has to offer, then a series of Staff Development courses could be for you. Students typically record only 20-40 percent of important lecture ideas (Kiewra, 2002)  so it’s worth considering other methods to support their learning. There are 4 distinct (but related) workshops held once a month over four monthsRead more

Web conferencing update

As part of the current round of Distance Learning Fund projects (about which more in due course), we’re been looking over the last few weeks at which web conferencing tool best suits our needs in supporting teaching and learning at Loughborough. The 15-strong longlist of contenders included several tools which are already used by differentRead more

Web 2.0 for teaching and learning

There has been much debate in the HE sector recently about the use of Web 2.0 services to support teaching and learning. (Here is one definition of Web 2.0 on Wikipedia, itself one of the best-known examples of a Web 2.0 site.) We all know how popular social networking sites such as Facebook are with students,Read more