The Higher Education Academy announced on 8th October that it is publishing the results of its research into teaching excellence. The statement by the Chief Executive of the HEA, Prof Stephanie Marshall that “…an agreed definition of what constitutes teaching excellence would be very useful in the sector” seems innocuous enough but raises important questions aboutRead more
Venue: Rutland Building room 0:02 Date / time: 1 Nov 2013 14:00 – 15:00 Presenter: Ian Solomonides, Macquarie University, Sydney ‘She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but tooRead more
Defining the problem that you’re trying to solve is an important start for any project. September saw the hard work start on our project. It is very important to understand the problem which is to be solved and what the system needs to be able to do to address the problem. The majority of theRead more
The School of Business and Economics (SBE) is organising a pedagogic seminar on Wednesday, 9 October 2013, from 3:30pm to 5pm entitled “Measuring Student Engagement: Current trends and perspectives from research in Education and Psychology” to which colleagues are invited to attend. Led by Claire Kinsella (Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University), this seminar will focus on practicalRead more
As I tweeted earlier this morning, the French Ministry of Education has launched a new national MOOC platform for France, based on the open-source system from EdX. ‘France Universite Numerique’, if you don’t speak French (and can’t guess!), means ‘France Digital University’. This is in contrast with the UK where for the moment we haveRead more
LectureTools is a web-based alternative to dedicated electronic voting systems (aka clickers) such as Turning Point which we use here at Loughborough. Developed by Dr Perry Samson, a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Michigan, the service was acquired this year by Echo 360, the company behind our ReVIEW lecture capture service. In many respectsRead more
There is an increasingly significant number of Joint Honours students here at Loughborough, which is one of the reasons why a Code of Practice for Joint Honours Degree Progammes was developed as part of Academic Quality Procedures Handbook. In order to support colleagues, we have started to develop a Joint Honours Community of Practice Learn module, but itRead more
Once there was RAPID for Personal Development Planning but now many see it as an outdated system and are seeking its replacement. Mahara is a piece of e-portfolio software that includes options to do all sorts of things to record your development. You can have a reflective journal, an electronic CV, pages that you canRead more
Confused by Twitter? Do you look at the tweets in the right-hand column of this blog and think: “I don’t have a clue what that means”? Over on the E-learning Blog, I posted recently a link to a guide to Twitter aimed at academics who have never previously tweeted, produced by Amy Mollett, Danielle MoranRead more
With the soft launch of my.Lboro (also known as the student portal) this time last year, colleagues will be aware that students have been able to access various online resources through this mechanism. These include student email, relevant news and notifications, Learn modules, budgetary information, Library access, etc. This coming academic year, new students are being encourgaged toRead more