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York St John University have had a subscription to Lynda.com for about two years and I have found it incredibly useful, so if you haven’t heard of this resource from ILS (or even if...
Category: Tools & Technologies
Turnitin: Understanding the Similarity Report
Turnitin does not check for plagiarism in a piece of work. Instead, it will check a student’s work against their database, and if there are instances where a student’s writing is similar to, or matches against,...
TEL in Numbers
I thought it would be a great idea to look back to 2016/17 and share with you some of the key facts and figures relating to Technology Enhanced Learning from this period. It’s also...
Jisc Connect More 2017 – Reflections
I recently attended the Jisc Connect More event in Sheffield, which focused on digital capabilities in higher and further education. Digital Capabilities can be defined as the skills and/or competencies required for living, learning...
Open Badges 2.0: Updates to the Open Badges Standard
On Monday 19th June, Open Badge Factory hosted a webinar on how both Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport are now compliant with the new Open Badges 2.0 standard (which was developed and released...
Turnitin Update: Feedback Studio
Turnitin has recently been updated from Classic to Feedback Studio, this blog post covers some of the changes that you will see when using the new interface. According to Turnitin: We’ve taken all of...
DCG Spotlight on Digital Capabilities: Student futures – equipping students to thrive in the digital era
I recently attended the UCISA–DCG conference on digital capabilities, which took place from the 24th to 25th May in Southampton. This was my first conference as a TEL Assistant (with just a few weeks...
Learn with Lynda: Teacher Tech Tips Weekly
Teacher Tech Tips is a series that is updated weekly by Oliver Schinkten, former school teacher and current Staff Author at LinkedIn and Lynda.com. This Lynda.com course is slightly different to others we have...
Learn with Lynda: Drawing Vector Graphics: Iconography
This month Learn with Lynda is highlighting Drawing Vector Graphics: Iconography a 3h45m intermediate course about creating vector icon images. This is a particularly useful course if you have, or are thinking about developing,...
#Digifest17 Part 2: Evidence-based TEL, Augmented Reality and Robots!
I’ve had to dedicate two blog posts to Digifest 2017, as I’ve had so much in my brain that I didn’t want to overwhelm people with one mammoth post! See my Part 1 post for...