Category: learner experience
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 [...]
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 [...]
Feedback and Assessment – web resources
March 3rd, 2012 at 11:03
These look useful – a series of recordings of webinars held by the JISC Assessment and Feedback programme: Assessment and Feedback: in the hands of the student (Prof. David Nicol) Making Assessment Count (Prof. Gunter Saunders, University of Westminster and Peter Chatterton) e-Portfolios for Assessment and Feedback (Emma Purnell, University of Wolverhampton and Geoff Rebbeck, [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Prezi = marmite
November 18th, 2011 at 04:11
Have you used Prezi, the zooming presentation tool? For me it’s like marmite…. and I hate marmite! Prezi is often seen as the antidote to boring text-heavy Powerpoint presentations that are low in excitement and ultimately soporific. However, with Prezi the problems of Powerpoint can often be replaced with zooming, sweeping, sea-sickness-inducing presentations which can [...]
Model for engagement
2 October 21st, 2011 at 03:10
With the rollout of Moodle here at the University I have increasingly been pondering on what is the most effective way to engage academic staff with technology enhanced learning? Online courses, face-to-face training, support websites, handouts, study guides, posters…. the list goes on and the answer is, of course, “yes all of them”. The academic community [...]
QR Codes Explained
15 October 12th, 2011 at 03:10
QR codes can be used to enhance teaching and learning in variety of ways, from lab inductions to field trips. You may even have seen them on the latest posters and printed materials around the University to support student orientation. QR is the abbreviation for “Quick Response” and a QR code is essentially a two [...]