7 of the Best 7 Things
Part of the role of the Technology Enhanced Learning team is to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, assessment and creative inquiry in higher education, and in...
Category: Trends
‘TEL’ Me About… Workshops
Throughout this academic year, the TEL team will be delivering a series of lunchtime workshops alongside online bite sized learning series (more on this soon). These sessions will cover a range of tools and...
Gamification and the Undergraduate Research Conference
This year’s student-led Undergraduate Research Conference takes place on Wednesday 21 October 9.30am-4.15pm in De Grey Court, and will celebrate a variety of undergraduate research which has recently taken place at York St John University. It will...
Looking Back on #ALTC 2015
Shaping the Future of Learning Together I recently attended the 22nd annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology, 8–10 September 2015, at The University of Manchester. I wrote a blog post Looking Ahead to #ALTC...
Badging the Residential Leadership Award
This week saw the launch of an exciting Open Badges project I’ve been working on with colleagues from York St John’s Accommodation and Staff Development Services. The project involves aligning open badges to a new Residential...
Learning & Teaching in Higher Education #LTHEchat – Open Badges
On Wednesday 29th April, Róisín and I had the pleasure of hosting the weekly #LTHEchat on the topic of Open Badges. #LTHEchat is an online Tweetchat which provides an opportunity for educators in higher...
#LTHEchat 20 – Open Badges
On Wednesday 29th April, from 8pm-9pm, Róisín and I will be hosting the weekly #LTHEchat on the topic of Open Badges. #LTHEchat is an online Tweetchat which provides an opportunity for educators in higher education...
Badges, badges everywhere!
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know we’re proponents of open badges as a means of recognising staff CPD and the informal learning that happens on and alongside university courses (see previous blog posts...
JISC Digifest: Better Connected (Day 2 round-up)
After a spot of ‘hook the duck’ and coconut-winning at the evening’s festival themed dinner, it was back to business on Day 2 of JISC’s Digifest 2015 conference. If you’ve missed it, you can...
JISC Digifest 2015 (Day 1 round-up)
Earlier this week, I was fortunate to attend the JISC Digifest conference at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham (9-10 March). JISC provides advice, content, research and IT services for UK education and research providers....