Case Study – Enhancing Sociology Blackboard sites
Context The administrators in the Department of Sociology felt that that their Blackboard courses looked unattractive, and tired, and that students would require something more inviting if they were to engage with their online environment. The Department of Sociology has 43 courses on Blackboard (28 undergraduate and 15 postgraduate). The Blackboard sites are mainly used to […]
Case Study: Online Marking and Feedback Using Blackboard, Turnitin, and GradeMark
In a collaborative project between the College Learning Technology Assistants (LTAs; David and Stephen), IT Services (ITS; Catherine Leyland), and Academic Practice Services (APS; Nichola Hayes), a series of resources and guides have been developed to support the use of Blackboard, Turnitin and GradeMark for online assignment submission and marking/feedback. These case studies build on […]
Hot Desk Dates: November 2013
To support the departments within the College both Stephen and myself will again be available on our regular ‘hot desk’ . To accommodate room availability and staff absences the dates for hOctober are: Criminology – November 26th Economics – November 26th Education – November 29th Lifelong Learning – November 28th Management – November 29th Media & Communications – November […]
2013 eLearning Awards: “Best Use of Mobile Learning”
The eLearning Awards have been running for over 10 years now and look to reward and highlight the growing world of corporate and academic eLearning. As part of the 2013 award season I helped to mentor the submission by the Department of Criminology, which was shortlisted for the award in the “Best Use of Mobile […]
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