The Careers and Employability Centre is running a 50 minute information session on Tuesday 6th May 1pm – 1.50pm to provide an insight into the support, services and activities that we offer. The course will help you if you are in a position where you support students with queries relating to their career planning, CVRead more
One of the outcomes from recent discussions at University Learning and Teaching Committee about institutional lecture capture policy is that the Teaching Centre have now set up a lecture capture research project, led by Janette Matthews from the Maths Education Centre. This will involve running focus groups and surveys with both staff and students, with aRead more
USE OF IMAGES The heart of my challenge to Death by PowerPoint (DBP) is images. Many others use pictures; most frequently it is an image that accompanies text and is descriptive. It normally is a subset to the slide and the text. My use of images inverts this. I use images as the illustrator andRead more
The forthcoming European Conference on Social Media, which is taking place at the University of Brighton on July 9th, 2014, is seeking applications from students to showcase their research into social media. The conference website is located at http://academic-conferences.org/ecsm/ecsm2014/ecsm14-committee.htm, while the showcase website is at http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ssms/. Further information is also available from Sandra Huskinson (Online Development Officer, School of Business and Economics) ifRead more
This blog is concerned with using PowerPoint (PPT) better in lecturing. By better, I mean in accordance with the latest scholarly research in the use of Multi Media Learning (MML); in conjunction with emerging practice in the world of business; and in rejection of the terminally embarrassing ‘Death by PowerPoint’. The blog can be readRead more
A colleague and I took part in a Google Hangout session yesterday with six other people from other institutions. Google Hangout is a video chat tool. I was a bit weary about using this at first because a) I’ve never used it before, and b) there were 10 people expected at this virtual meeting soRead more
Loughborough is launching a new ‘mini MOOC’ on the Futurelearn platform. Getting to grips with mathematical symbolism is aimed at those who are considering studying science or engineering foundation courses at university level but who currently lack skills in maths. For further information see the in-depth post over on the E-learning Blog.Read more
There are now just eight weeks to go until Loughborough’s mini-mooc Getting a grip on mathematical symbolism goes live on the Future Learn platform (https://www.futurelearn.com) and the thousands of students already registered can start the course. The team are working flat out completing the content, developing the e-learning and assessment elements, and adding enhancements intended to make theRead more
TurnItIn have recently announced their Grade Anything initiative, which allows the system to accept files of any type for evaluation. Obviously the text-matching will only work with files containing text. However the GradeMark online marking tool is now applicable for a much wider variety of student coursework, as is demonstrated on their video clips . Don’tRead more
With today’s word being ‘cognizant‘, I thought that it was time to share the Newswordy web resource with T&L Blog, err, aficionados. In defining their latest posting (i.e. ‘cognizant’) as an adjective meaning “having knowledge or being aware of”, this site – which I’ve only come across in recent weeks – goes on to offer a recent use of thisRead more