The Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference – two views of ‘learner-centred’
photo credit: ransomtech via photopin cc The idea of putting learners at the centre of learning was a theme that ran through many of the presentations, including the main Blackboard corporate presentations at the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference in Dublin at the beginning of May. However, I noticed two different views of ‘student-centred’ learning. […]
Workshop: 7 things you need to know about … Lecture Capture
This lunch time drop in session – April 11th, 12:30-1:30 – is designed for busy academic teaching staff with little time to attend workshop on pedagogical areas they would like to ‘find out a bit more’ about. Bring along your lunch and get involved in small group and large group discussions with colleagues. Thinking and […]
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 […]
Blackboard Education on Tour, October 2013
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 […]
Eight Roles of an Effective Online Teacher
There are plenty of ways in which we can support and encourage students to participate in online activities, and these are important when designing activities for students who study online and at a distance. This report from Faculty Focus on ‘Eight Roles of an Effective Online Teacher’ has some important considerations for us all. When […]
Report: “Exploring eAssessment”
Date: October 16th, 2012 Location: University of Lancaster Details: “Exploring eAssessment”. This event was hosted as part of the eAssessment Association Regional Events and JISC Regional Support Centre Northwest. This post was first published on my private TEL blog, as we did not have a University blogging platform with which to share our work and […]
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Blackboard: The Voice of an Active Learner [video]
“Do you recognise me? Very soon I will be your student, but I will not always sit in your classroom. I will not take out a pencil or open a textbook. You grew up with books, I read from a laptop, an iPad, a smart phone. I use a keyboard more than a pen. I’m […]
Twitter for Teaching and Research
I recently began a Master’s degree in Digital Education with University of Edinburgh. The first module is Investigating Digital Environments for Learning, and one of the environments we looked as was Twitter. In a tutorial the course tutor, Prof Hamish McCleod, said that when he first encountered Twitter he just “didn’t get it”. I also […]
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