The JISC Digital Media Service, based at the University of Bristol, has just released a set of 10 excellent new advice documents focused on different aspects of learning technologies, ranging from mobile learning to use of audio feedback. You can find the new materials at http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/ten-new-advice-documents-released/ .Read more
Did you know that the ReVIEW system automatically generates additional file formats that are suitable for playback on mobile devices? As a presenter, when you log into the ReVIEW system to check your capture before you make it available via Learn, you see the following options if you hover over your recording: If you choose ‘playRead more
Check out the new ReVIEW support section on this blog at https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/elearning/?page_id=498 . This contains a set of excellent resources reproduced under a Creative Commons licence from the JISC-funded ELTAC project at Coventry, including a video tutorial on editing your captured lectures. We’ll be adding further resources of our own over the next few weeks.Read more
Video can be used in many ways to support learning, not least through the use of automated video lecture capture which we’ve covered in many posts on this blog recently. If you’re looking to produce something ‘quick and dirty’, for instance a short video introduction to a topic, or video feedback on assignments (which aRead more
On the Summary screen (the first of 4 tabs the tutor sees when they click the link to the assignment) there is a pencil icon. Clicking this allows editing of the dates and times. You then need to click the tick icon (which replaces the pencil) to confirm the changes. The graphic above shows theRead more
Over the Summer, we secured funding for two lecture capture projects… Picture this – creating resources to support the engagement of campus-based students. This project is supported by the Alumni fund Through the glass darkly – creating resources to support the engagement of distance learning students. This project is supported by Echo 360 In both cases,Read more
(REPOSTED from August 10) The University now has a 100-user volume licence for Camtasia Studio 7, the screen recording application. This has been purchased with the support of the University’s Distance Learning Fund through a CHEST agreement (which makes certain software packages much cheaper for Higher Education). Under this agreement, the 100-user licence will beRead more
After almost a year’s development, we now have an alternative way to submit coursework files to the TurnItIn UK plagiarism checking service. Learn has a new TurnItIn Assignment activity in which: Students submit their coursework by uploading to a TurnItIn Assignment activity Learn stores a local copy and also automatically sends a copy for checkingRead more
As regular readers of this blog will know, over the last 6 months the University has funded a set of online distance learning development projects through the Distance Learning Fund. This covered 7 academic departments, with another project focused on the supporting IT infrastructure (including expansion of the ReVIEW lecture capture system and the ElluminateRead more
When updating your Learn modules, has the following thought occurred to you: I need to find a way of somehow cloning my Learn sites ABC101 and ABC102 since they are basically the same course, bar the assessment. That’s exactly the query that came through to learn@lboro yesterday. Here’s the response from the Learn team: WhatRead more