Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference – new developments
photo credit: adesigna via photopin cc New developments for Blackboard I mentioned in an earlier post that Blackboard are becoming more responsive to their local markets. The ugly phrase they used to describe this is ‘countrification’. As a result of this several new features and changes to design were unveiled at the Blackboard Teaching […]
The Problem with Plagiarism Detection Software
photo credit: Jisc via photopin cc Here’s a discussion between two students ‘from a prestigious university’, reported by McKenna and Hughes (2013): Don: what is the extent to which we’re allowed to plagiarise, 17% or something? Mark: No, it’s just like 20%, but I mean that’s all […]
Course: Leading Transformation in Learning and Teaching
Please find details of the ‘Leading Transformation in Learning and Teaching’ from SEDA / HEA below: The Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation have jointly designed Leading Transformation in Learning and Teaching (LTLT), a new leadership programme for those with responsibility for leading learning and teaching development at programme, department, school or faculty level. […]
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 […]
Case Study: Online Assessment Marking and Feedback
With the growing popularity of marking assignments and providing feedback to students online we developed a series of workshops with supporting materials in Autumn 2012. Along with the workshop materials and hands-on time with Turnitin and online marking & feedback we provided two postcards as ‘take-away’ materials with tips and reminders of aspects of Turnitin […]
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