This July I graduated from University. It was a hard 3 years, although there were a lot of highs, the majority of lows would often be coursework related. So when I heard about this great site lashzone.com wasn’t I jumping for joy? I can make an enquiry, get a quote, send them my essay title and ‘tah dah’Read more
We’ve been busy planning the work for our Teaching Innovation Award – Systems Validation and Verification Test Rig. For us, the most important first step has been identifying key stakeholders for the project and making sure that we have good plans in place to involve them. The two main groups identified are staff and students.Read more
Professor Gunter Saunders from the University of Westminster presented ‘Making Assessment Count (MAC)’ in this week’s online eAssessment conference held from the 19th August till the 30th August. The MAC project’s original objective was to help students get more from their marked work and they broke feedback down into the three stage process SOS to do so. Read more
You may have heard that there is a new iPad app for using TurnItIn – including the GradeMark paperless marking tool – available for free from the App Store. This may be of interest to tutors who already have an iPad, and already use GradeMark. It probably isn’t a ‘killer App’ that by itself makesRead more
The Teaching Centre now has a Twitter account. We will be tweeting with new blog postings and general news from the centre including dates for up and coming courses and other pieces of info we think may be of use to you all. If you have Twitter why not give us a follow and a tweet usingRead more
Does your work in teaching or support for learners enhance and transform the student learning experience? Could you become a National Teaching Fellow? The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS), administered by the Higher Education Academy, recognises and rewards excellent learning and teaching. Up to 55 awards of £10,000 are made to recognise individual excellence andRead more
eAssessment Scotland are holding their annual eAssessment themed day event on 23rd August 2013. The day programme looks really good and varied and if the conference was held a little closer to home I would go without hesitation. But, unfortunately for me, it’s not. So I will have to make do with registering for theRead more
Since the demise of the twitter-based voting tool in PowerPoint, we have been on the lookout for alternative web-based voting tools with similar functionality. My colleague has already mentioned one alternative, Socrative in an earlier post and a recent discussion on the ALT mailing list has thrown up a couple of other contenders, which IRead more