Archive for January, 2012
Making Babies in Second Life / Virtual Maternity Unit wins RCM Award
January 30th, 2012 at 03:01
Sometimes hard work does pay off. Colleen McCants and Fay Cross, of the ISLT Section’s Innovation Team, were pleased when their collaborative venture with Jenny Bailey, (Academic Midwifery, School Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy), the Virtual Maternity Unit in Second Life, won Jenny the Royal College of Midwives Innovation Award. In 2011 Jenny received a Lord [...]
ELESIG webinar: Student Engagement Methods: a focus on the Nominal Group Technique
January 27th, 2012 at 03:01
ELESIG, the network for those interested in the learner experience of elearning, has a series of webinars on relevant topics and the latest webinar is an outcome from a project funded by one of ELESIG‘s Small Grants. Date: Wednesday, 29th February, 1-2pm (UK time) Location: Online (The URL will be sent to all registered attendees) [...]
JISC On Air Survey
January 24th, 2012 at 01:01
In 2011, the JISC e-Learning Programme produced a series of web-based radio shows, known as JISC on Air, on how digital technologies are supporting institutional practices. These shows offer an informative and engaging discussion with leading experts around how technology is supporting colleges and universities in addressing the challenges they currently face. JISC now need your [...]
JISC MediaHub
January 20th, 2012 at 04:01
Launched in August last year, JISC MediaHub is a multimedia platform offering a wealth of digital image, video and audio collections accessible from a single interface. The platform offers access to free-at-the-point-of-use images, video and audio content licensed for educational and research use, via an easy-to-use interface, cross-searching across all the collections and the ability [...]
Learning lunches at the LSRI
January 16th, 2012 at 09:01
Thanks to Charles Crook who recently passed on details about this regular event…. A number of LSRI students have encouraged the idea of a regular informal meeting at which matters of shared interest (around learning and the learning scieences) might be discussed. It looks as if Tuesday lunchtime is good for many people to convene [...]
The Guardian’s Higher Education Network
1 January 13th, 2012 at 09:01
Have you seen the Guardian newspaper’s Higher Education Network? It was set up last year aimed at those that work in and with higher education: “an online space where higher education professionals can talk to one other, get advice and insight from peers and industry experts and grapple with the challenges that face the whole [...]
Improving the student experience & reducing administrative load
January 12th, 2012 at 11:01
On Weds 11th January 2012, the e-learning community meeting discussed improving the student experience and reducing the administrative load. Topic details: Around 250 first-year undergraduates take Chemistry laboratory modules in which they carry out 20 different experiments during the course of the year, generating over 5000 laboratory reports. This year, Dr Wright and Dr Bertram [...]
e-Learning alloys
January 9th, 2012 at 09:01
In the last post, we advertised the upcoming e-learning seminar. However, some have noticed that this event clashes with another event, the METAL (Media Enhanced Teaching and Learning) workshop. Two events on the same day in different locations? No problem! Participants at the next METAL workshop at the University (in Keighton Auditorium) on 11th January [...]
e-Learning Community, Weds 11th Jan: Improving the Student Experience & Reducing the Administrative Load
January 4th, 2012 at 10:01
The next meeting is on Wednesday, January 11th, 2011 in A48 Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park from 12:30 till 2PM. The theme will be improving the student experience & reducing the administrative load. Speakers: Rossana Wright and Anna Bertram (School of Chemistry) Topic: Around 250 first-year undergraduates take Chemistry laboratory modules in which they [...]