The Higher Education Academy has been publishing discipline specific reports during the course of this year based upon National Student Survey data. In addition to reports published in the late spring on STEM and Health Sciences subjects such as Engineering and Mathematics, a new set of reports for Arts and Humanities subjects such as English andRead more
Dr Dave Elder-Vass is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and a recent user of the ReVIEW automated lecture capture system. In this video interview, Dave describes on camera his experiences and those of his students, expanding on his comments in an earlier blog post. Find out more about ReVIEW. Read more
Every few years, UCISA (Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association) conducts a survey of the use of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in UK universities and colleges. The report based on this year’s survey has just been published and is available here. Here is a condensed version of the key findings from the executive summary: EnhancingRead more
It’s the major ALT-C learning technology conference coming up next week in Manchester, and colleagues Jenny Narborough and Martin Ashby will be presenting a short Pecha Kucha session on lecture capture. Entitled “Lecture capture: rethinking what can be recorded”, the session will reflect on our experience at Loughborough of the ReVIEW lecture capture service beingRead more
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
If you used a TurnItIn assignment activity in one of your modules last year, you will find that there is a copy of it in your 2012 module on Learn. The copy will not work. It was set up with the 2011 class list and will generate an error if you try to re-use itRead more