We’ve just learned that the Library has had budget approval to subscribe to the BoB Box of Broadcasts service, which is great news for any academic colleagues interested in using TV and radio programmes (or excerpts thereof) to support their teaching. Think of it as an academic iPlayer or Sky Plus box, that allows you toRead more
[News release from JISC Announce 16.8.2012] Celebrating 10,000 followers… and our resources to help engage students through social media To celebrate our ten thousandth Twitter follower, we showcase some resources that can help you blog, tweet and interact your way to better student retention, marketing and teaching online. 1. Listen to a podcast on developingRead more
WordPress is a freely available blogging tool with some additional versatile tools to help you do so much more. Loughborough University uses WordPress to run both the e-learning and Teaching Centre blog, and can do much more that simply displaying blog posts. The following article describes how some in academia are using WordPress. http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/blackboard/wordpress-as-a-vle-or-cms/Read more
There is a tendency in Higher Education (and other sectors) for managers, academics and – let’s be honest – learning technologists to make lazy assertions as to what works in e-learning and what doesn’t. In response to this, teachers and researchers associated with the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh have developed aRead more
In the new version of Learn based on Moodle 2.2, you can now drag-and-drop files from your desktop directly onto the module page (ie avoiding the need to upload a file first then link to it). You can even select multiple files to drag-and-drop at the same time. This is now the quickest and mostRead more