Academic and support staff with an interest in the use of learning technologies are welcome to register for the following seminar at Loughborough which has been sponsored by the Higher Education Academy as part of its Evidence Based Practice series: Don’t Look Back: Reflections on the experience of enhancing new History programmes through the useRead more
As posted previously: We now have 2 proposed sets of dates for the Learn ‘rollover’ from 09/10 to 10/11. These are:- Monday 19th/Tuesday 20th July Monday 9th/Tuesday 10th August If either period is likely to cause you / your department a problem, or if you have any other concerns, could you please let us knowRead more
Glad to hear Loughborough have settled on Elluminate Live – I’ve used it several times and I’m hardly a “power user” but it just works really well with a really low problem rate, even with international delegates. My one piece of advice would be – everybody thinks their mic will work without checking it firstRead more
I recently arrived from the US where I spent 10+ yrs teaching and conducting research in math e-learning. A couple of my first conversations in the UK have afforded me a chance to reflect more on e-learning. One conversation was about the influence of instructional tech-enthusiasts on educational practice. In another later conversation, I wasRead more
BOS is a comprehensive online survey and questionnaire tool available to researchers and academics at Loughborough. Find out more from Martin Ashby in the Research Office.Read more
The good news is that Learn now has a new Activity type, a TurnItIn Assignment. Unlike previous connections with the plagiarism detection service, this one has the students doing the submitting. Staff no longer need to be individually registered for the service – Learn is registered instead. Advantages: A scaleable service, because individuals are noRead more
We now have 2 proposed sets of dates for the Learn ‘rollover’ from 09/10 to 10/11. These are:- Monday 19th/Tuesday 20th July Monday 9th/Tuesday 10th August If either period is likely to cause you / your department a problem, could you please let us know via learn [at] lboro.ac.uk .Read more
I attended a very timely lecture capture event yesterday organised by my ex-colleague Juliet Hinrichsen at Coventry in support of their JISC ELTAC project. The focus of the event, attended by representatives of some of the institutions that have really scaled up their use of automated lecture capture (LSE, Newcastle, Birmingham), was on staff developmentRead more
Following on from Rich Goodman’s post last month regarding the Learn suggestion system, I thought I’d post a quick reminder to colleagues to keep visiting the pages to see what’s new. There are now around 30 suggested enhancements to vote / comment on so please do log in and have your say on proposed changes.Read more
If you’re wondering what e-learning has to offer, then a series of Staff Development courses could be for you. Students typically record only 20-40 percent of important lecture ideas (Kiewra, 2002) so it’s worth considering other methods to support their learning. There are 4 distinct (but related) workshops held once a month over four monthsRead more