Category: e-learning community
Using Adobe Connect with distance learning students
May 11th, 2012 at 09:05
The recording is now available of this week’s E-learning Community seminar on Synchronous Online Communication: running successful Adobe Connect sessions with students Many thanks to our speakers Jonathan Houdmont (lecturer – including on the MSc in Health and Wellbeing – in the Institute for Work, Health and Organisations) and Sue Cobb (Principal Research Fellow, Faculty of Engineering), both [...]
Elearning community Wednesday 9th May: Synchronous Online Communication
May 9th, 2012 at 07:05
Our next E-learning Community lunchtime seminar takes place today Wednesday 9th May, from 12.30 pm in Sir Clive Granger A48 The theme is Synchronous Online Communication: running successful Adobe Connect sessions with students Our speakers include Jonathan Houdmont (lecturer – including on the MSc in Health and Wellbeing – in the Institute for Work, Health [...]
Elearning community – and webinar!
April 10th, 2012 at 02:04
This week we’re launching a new online course – Teaching with Moodle. Following on from the Key Moodle Basics Introduction to Moodle, this rolling 8-week course will explore a variety of topics relating to Moodle and provide the opportunity for staff to explore, share, and ask questions. We will be using tomorrow’s e-learning community meeting [...]
Participatory Online Learning
April 5th, 2012 at 08:04
On the 14th March 2012, the e-learning community met to explore the theme of particpaotry online learning. With all the extra tools and features available in Moodle, this was a timely look at ways to harness learner participation and social learning. Chris Gratton explored the Graduate School’s moderated participatory online courses for research postgraduates and how [...]
Xpert at 275,000 and climbing………….
March 29th, 2012 at 11:03
I’ve been working on my presentation for the OER 12 conference today where I’ll be talking about the PARiS project and whilst checking out some stats to include I noticed that Xpert is now indexing more than 275,000 resources. This is another milestone for the service and at the rate resources are being added Xpert [...]
Attribute Images – new JISC funded rapid innovation project
1 March 26th, 2012 at 07:03
I am really pleased to be able to report that the Learning Technology team have recently won some JISC funding to extend the Xpert Attribution service. The funding is part of the UKOER rapid innovation programme that runs until October 2012. The project we have funding for is called ‘Attribute Images’ and it will extend [...]
PARiS is mobile……..
March 23rd, 2012 at 03:03
Mobile Xerte is a new addition to the award-winning Xerte Project’s suite of tools for Android and iOS devices. Mobile Xerte is built around the concept of playlists, or collections of open resources that can be subscribed to using the application. Playlists can also be created using Mobile Xerte, and shared with other users, allowing [...]
Designing modules with openess in mind
1 March 15th, 2012 at 11:03
Supporting the sustainability theme within the PARiS project is a team of content creators from a variety of subject areas. These include Geography, Engineering, Business, Archaeology and the Careers service. Each content creator is recording their experiences of the design process and the benefits and barriers of finding and using third party OER within the [...]
Participatory online learning – 5 ways to welcome your learners
March 14th, 2012 at 09:03
To accompany our elearning community discussion on Participatory Online Learning, we are offering a series of related posts on creating participatory activities and creating the kind of learning environment in which these are successful. If you’re trying to encourage your students to participate in online activities as part of their course, creating the feel of [...]
The Ear Foundation Needs Analysis (PARiS)
March 13th, 2012 at 03:03
This is a post from Lyndsey Allen, Education Programme Co-ordinator at The Ear Foundation. Background The Ear Foundation is a charity helping deaf people and their families make the best use of technology to improve hearing and communication. Through the PARIS project, The Ear Foundation is working with the University of Nottingham to widen access [...]