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This month, we’re shining the ‘Learn with Lynda’ spotlight on Gamification. Gamification is the introduction of ‘game-like’ features and processes such as ‘levelling-up’, reward systems and challenges into non-game environments such as education. The approach is...
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...
The Academic Development Directorate is inviting York St John students to undertake paid work with academic staff on various research activities across the University. This is a fantastic opportunity to help you develop your research, teamwork and...
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...
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...
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...
This iteration of the programme is now over, but you can still work through the materials in your own time or, if you’d like the experience of participating in a community of people all...
Our last day! Hopefully by now you are comfortable with Twitter basics and have explored a couple of tools and approaches to organising and curating content. Along the way, you will have undoubtedly seen...
Hashtags (using the # symbol) is where Twitter really gets interesting. Basically, the hashtag is a form of metadata. A # in front of a word signals that it is a keyword of some sort,...
What to tweet? Twitter only allows you to send 140 characters, which doesn’t seem much when we are used to writing at length about complex ideas. That doesn’t mean that Twitter is superficial or...
