A-Z Tools & Technologies: Skype
What is it? Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the internet. It was founded in August 2003 by two software developers Nicklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiu: it...
Category: Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning #ocTEL
The Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (#ocTEL) is an online course designed to help you better understand ways to use Learning Technology for teaching, learning and assessment. The course has undergone a revision after last...
JISC TechDis Ambassadors
What is it? A TechDis Ambassador is someone with a disability who shares and celebrates their use of technology in learning or work. Technology can play a crucial role in helping people with diverse...
Using Twitter to Enhance Understanding of Children’s Literature
Student teachers need to be skilled in not only starting the reading process with the children they teach but also keeping them reading by encouraging a love and appreciation of books. In order to...
BBC Radio 4 – My Teacher Is an App
Presented by Sarah Montague, BBC Radio 4 have created a new three part series called ‘My Teacher Is an App’ that explores the changes in education being brought about by technology. York St John University staff and...
Call for Contributions – Higher York e-Learning Conference (5th June 2014)
‘Enhancing the student experience through flexible learning solutions’ #HYeLC14 Thursday 5th June 2014, York St John University The Annual Higher York e-learning conference aims to showcase best practice in the use of learning technologies which...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Nearpod
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an application that enables tutors to create interactive teaching resources that can be accessed by students on laptops & mobile devices (iOS and Android). Tutors can monitor and measure students’...
Learning Analytics
The NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition (see below) describes learning analytics as the “Field associated with deciphering trends and patterns from educational big data, or huge sets of student-related data, to...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: MOOCs
Although not strictly a tool or technology, we thought MOOCs would make an ideal topic for our latest post in the A-Z series! What are MOOCs? Massive open online course (MOOC) are free courses, available over...
Stimulating Participation in Lectures
Mandy (@MandyAsghar) and I recently delivered a workshop to colleagues in the Faculty of Arts to stimulate thinking and consider effective strategies including (but not limited to) the use of technology to promote engagement...