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...
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Academic Reading Format International Study – we want your views!
ARFIS is the Academic Reading Format International Study to explore the reading preferences of students. It has taken place in 25 countries and the UK survey is running from 18th February until 31st March...
Summer of Student Innovation 2016
Jisc have announced their annual Summer of Student Innovation competition, see below for details… Our challenge: could your students make an impact? Jisc’s Summer of Student Innovation competitions are an opportunity for students to...
Moodle Mondays – Adding YouTube videos to your course
What is it? YouTube is a video sharing website available at http://youtube.com which allows you to upload, share and view videos. How does it work? There are two ways in which you can add...
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...
Learn with Lynda: Flipping the Classroom
For this months Learn with Lynda we’re looking at ‘Flipping the Classroom‘ with Aaron Quigley. Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space,...