Every year the New Media Consortium (NMC), in partnership with the Educause Learning Initiative, release a series of reports for different education sectors on key trends, significant challenges and important developments recognized in the fields of education. “The eleventh edition will describe annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, a more than decade-long research project designed […]
In September 2013 I was asked to submit a short essay for an eBook project, answering the question “What are the most effective uses of technology in online and mobile education?”. Here’s my reply, which is available on page 30 in the “Mobile Education – Lessons from 35 Education Experts on Improving Learning with Mobile Technology” […]
The next hot desk visits from your college Learning Technology Assistants will be at the end of January. We felt that the timing of the December hot desk, a week earlier than normal, would be too soon after the previous visit, and the last week of term before Christmas is not an ideal time either. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Starting to use social media tools like Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn or SlideShare if you’ve not used them before can be a hard road to walk. It isn’t necessarily about learning to use them but the feeling of learning to use them in an open space, where mistakes can be seen by everyone, could […]
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 […]
On October 22nd Stephen and I attended the ‘Blackboard Education on Tour’ event in London. This was our chance to learn from the experts, speak with the team behind the current Blackboard service, and to speak with the developers on what is being developed and proposed for the Blackboard (Bb) Learn system we use at […]
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 October are: Criminology – October 29th Economics – October 30th Education – November 1st Lifelong Learning – October 31st Management – Novermber 1st Media […]
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