Technology Enhanced Learning Blog
The Students as Researchers Scheme gives York St John students the opportunity to be paid to carry out research alongside members of staff. The primary aim of the scheme is to engage undergraduate students and staff in...
…no, not a new member of the TEL team (sadly), but the latest resource on offer from ILS – Lynda.com! Information Learning Services has purchased an institutional subscription to lynda.com, an online video library...
This time next week I’ll be at The University of Manchester for #ALTC 2015 – undoubtedly the biggest learning technologies conference of the year! I’ve spent the last few days digesting the extensive #ALTC...
Twitter is a micro-blogging social media platform on which you can post 140 character ‘tweets’ which your followers can see, and you can follow other people to see what they’re sharing. Sounds easy, and...
Technology Enhanced Learning, along with the rest of our colleagues in the Academic Development Directorate, have now moved offices! We’re located in the Holgate building (number 17 on the campus map), as you head through the...
Call for Papers! Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference (#SocMedHE15) Finding our social identity Friday 18th December 2015 at Sheffield Hallam University The inaugural Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference...
The Technology Enhanced Learning team and Information Learning Services have been working hard over summer to upgrade Moodle. This latest version (2.8) brings significant evolutionary improvements to the Assignment activity, Gradebook, Forums, Quizzes, Analytics...
The Technical University of Munich has developed an audience response system (ARS) which is platform-independent and free-to-use for educators and students worldwide. OnlineTED is a web-based audience response system designed specifically for lectures and seminars in higher education. Register...
A new plugin has been installed in Moodle, TADC (Talis Aspire Digitised Content), which will allow you to request the digitisation of an article or book chapter through the ILS Digital Scanning Service. For any...
A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. (Wikipedia) For quite a while now, Staff & Students at YSJ have been...