E-learning Drop-In Clinic – Wed 3rd November

In addition to our scheduled training sessions on Learn and associated tools, the E-learning team are hosting monthly drop-in ‘clinics’ in the Library. The next session is Wednesday 3rd November from 1 – 2pm. Staff will be on hand in the E-learning Office* and Library Training Room 1 next door to answer your questions about anyRead more

The Elluminate roadmap

You will know that Elluminate and Wimba were both taken over by BlackBoard earlier this year, and merged into a new concern called BlackBoard Collaborate. At an online webinar yesterday, the plans for the new company were outlined.  A total of 236 people attended the session, which used Elluminate as its platform. It very quicklyRead more

New Study of UK Online Learning

The HEFCE Online Learning Taskforce, about which I blogged back in the summer, has just published a Study of UK Online Learning which it commissioned from the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford. You can download the study from here. Comments on the findings of the report to follow…Read more

New advice documents from JISC Digital Media

The JISC Digital Media Service, based at the University of Bristol, has just released a set of 10 excellent new advice documents focused on different aspects of learning technologies, ranging from mobile learning to use of audio feedback. You can find the new materials at http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/ten-new-advice-documents-released/ .Read more

ReVIEW for mobile devices

Did you know that the ReVIEW system automatically generates additional file formats that are suitable for playback on mobile devices? As a presenter, when you log into the ReVIEW system to check your capture before you make it available via Learn, you see the following options if you hover over your recording: If you choose ‘playRead more

ReVIEW support

Check out the new ReVIEW support section on this blog at https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/elearning/?page_id=498 . This contains a set of excellent resources reproduced under a Creative Commons licence from the JISC-funded ELTAC project at Coventry, including a video tutorial on editing your captured lectures. We’ll be adding further resources of our own over the next few weeks.Read more

Mini camcorders – more available

Video can be used in many ways to support learning, not least through the use of automated video lecture capture which we’ve covered in many posts on this blog recently. If you’re looking to produce something ‘quick and dirty’, for instance a short video introduction to a topic, or video feedback on assignments (which aRead more