Gamification and Talking About Teaching #YSJTAT
Friday 23 January 2015, 9.00 am – 4.00 pm Bookings now open! To book a place on this conference, please go to our online booking form! ‘Talking about Teaching‘ is our annual event that...
Category: Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Talking About Teaching 2015
Friday 23 January 2015, 9.00 am – 4.00 pm Bookings now open! To book a place on this conference, please go to our online booking form! ‘Talking about Teaching’ is our annual event that...
“Prove that technology works in education…”
At the post graduate induction Saturday, I have stood in front of the crowd of eager new starters and asked them what they thought I taught at university. I have been quite surprised by...
Inspired by Technology
This year I was lucky enough to attend the Higher York e-learning Conference 2014 which was entitled -“Enhancing the student experience through flexible learning solutions”. Being a practitioner in higher education and a definite...
Back to the Future II
In my previous ‘Back to the Future‘ post I looked back at the OU Innovating Pedagogy Reports from the last 3 years, this time I’ll be looking at the NMC Horizon Report, which now...
Technology to replace face-to-face teaching?
Initially when I started to work within higher education I continued to apply the strategies and techniques I had used within the primary classroom to my higher education sessions. It was not long before I realised that, even though the basic learning theories still apply, there was a uniqueness to learning and teaching within higher education that I had not been aware off.
Back to the Future!
In November The OU released their latest Innovation Report – Innovating Pedagogy 2014. In this post we’ll take a look at the ten innovations in this latest addition, and also look back at the...
Moodle 2.7 – New Features
The Technology Enhanced Learning team and Information Learning Services have been working hard over the last couples of months to bring staff and students an early Christmas present. On the Saturday 13th December, we...
SEDA: Supporting Learning with Technology (SLT) 2015
Supporting Learning with Technology is one of the named awards available through SEDA’s Professional Development Framework, and it is a subset of the Embedding Learning Technologies (ELT) award. It is relevant to all staff involved with learning technologies...
“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
Last Week Phil (@PhilVincent) and I had the opportunity to delivery a workshop at the 19th Annual SEDA conference, entitled ‘Opportunities and challenges for academic development in a post-digital age’. The workshop titled ‘Badges?...