ePedagogy Open Space Event
ePedagogy Open Space Event Wednesday 18 May 2016, 2.00-4.00pm, Students’ Union Café. What is Open Space? Open Space is a way of facilitating events which does not rely on a formal agenda. There is...
Category: Staff Development
Learn with Lynda: Infographics Fundamentals
This month, on my way back from an event in London, I watched the ‘Infographics Fundamentals‘ course by Amy Balliett. Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended...
Jisc Student Experience Experts Group Meeting
On 20th April I went down to Birmingham for the Jisc Student Experience Experts Group Meeting. This was a meeting of the student experience experts group (formerly the learning and teaching experts group), and...
Moodle Mondays – Embedding a Twitter feed in a Moodle Course
What is it? A Twitter feed is a collection of tweets from a Twitter User/account. Many YSJ staff use Twitter as an additional communication/engagement tool for their module or programme. For more information about...
10 Days of Twitter #YSJ10DoT – Coming Soon!
Welcome to Ten Days of Twitter, or as it’s called in twitterspeak, #YSJ10DoT ! YSJ10DoT will take place from Monday 18 April – Friday 29 April 2016. Ever wondered if Twitter might be a...
5 Days of Open Education – Day 5: Becoming an Open Educational Practitioner
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 5 minutes Activity 12 minutes A journey of a hundred miles begins with one step — Ancient Chinese Proverb While the idea of creating and building upon open educational...
5 Days of Open Education – Day 4: Open Access Publishing
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 10 minutes (incl. 8.24 min video) Activity 10 minutes Open access (OA) publishing has been an issue that has come to the fore in recent years, especially since...
5 Days of Open Education – Day 3: Creative Commons Licensing: know your SA from your ND!
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 3-5 minutes Activity 10 minutes (+ optional extra activity). Librarians and TEL Advisors encounter some really neat tools that have a broad application. One such example is Creative Commons...
5 Days of Open Education – Day 2: The ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘where’ of Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 6-8 minutes Activity 10-15 minutes Yesterday we introduced Open Education generally. Today, we’ll look specifically at an overview of Open Education Resources. By the end of the post, you...
5 Days of Open Education – Day 1: What is Open Education and why is it important?
Activity Time Required (approx) Blog post 20 (including video) Activity 10 What do we mean by Open Education? At its core, Open Education is about removing barriers to Education. It is a movement benefiting from the...