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...
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Jisc Student Summer of Innovation 2015
The Student Summer of Innovation 2015 competitions are now open for entries at the Jisc Elevator Site. Do you have a brilliant idea that could improve education or research? Elevator is Jisc’s open innovation platform....
Minimum Expectations in Moodle – Student Survey
On Tuesday 17th March Phil, Daniel (TEL), Gabby Wilson (VPE), and I met in Holgate to undertake a survey which encouraged students to share their thoughts around the use of Moodle in their Faculty. Over 100...
VLE Standards, Thresholds, Expectations & Baselines
The primary aim of the YSJ TEL Quality Framework is to facilitate and encourage a consistent and well-considered approach to the use of Technology Enhanced Learning across the University. The quality statements relate to firstly...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: Trello
Every now and again an app/tool comes along that can make a real impact on your day-to-day effectiveness & efficiency and goes straight into your productivity workflow (like Feedly, Evernote, Pocket, IFTTT or Buffer)...
Using WordPress for Evaluation & Feedback
There are many great tools available for collecting student evaluation or feedback in a session – TextWall, Padlet, Socrative, QR codes, Post-it notes (that’s right, we love them too) – they all work great...
A-Z Tools & Technologies: IFTTT
If This Then That IFTTT empowers you with creative control over the products and apps you love. Recipes are simple connections between products and apps. There are two types of Recipes: Do Recipes and...
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...
Can iBooks Work for Distance Learning? [Webinar Recording]
Can iBooks Work for Distance Learning? The Manchester Distance Learning Network (MaDLeN) Wednesday, 25 March 2015 from 13:00 to 14:00 (GMT) The Manchester Distance Learning Network (MaDLeN) are proud to be hosting another free...
Findings from the Association for Learning Technology Annual Survey
The first report from the ALT Annual Survey, launched in December 2014, has been published. The survey was primarily for ALT members but open for anyone to respond. The purpose of this survey was...