Technology Enhanced Learning Blog
Throughout the coming academic year, the TEL team will be delivering a series of lunchtime workshops. These sessions will cover a range of tools and technologies available at the institution for enhancing teaching, learning...
Over the summer Mahara, the e-portfolio system, has had an update. This blog post highlights some of the newer features of the software. The text box has been split into: note and text. Note...
I thought it would be a great idea to look back to 2016/17 and share with you some of the key facts and figures relating to Technology Enhanced Learning from this period. It’s also...
The TEL Team are holding a number of drop-in ‘surgeries’ at the end of August and beginning of September for staff who may need help setting up their Moodle courses, have questions about Mahara...
Over the summer we will be updating our Mahara e-portfolio system, to version 16.10! Once the update has taken place you may notice some differences to the appearance of Mahara, as well as some...
I recently attended the Jisc Connect More event in Sheffield, which focused on digital capabilities in higher and further education. Digital Capabilities can be defined as the skills and/or competencies required for living, learning...
We have worked with colleagues over in ILS and recently deployed the Media Library plugin in Moodle. This plugin makes it much easier for students to submit video assessments and also makes it easier...
On Monday 19th June, Open Badge Factory hosted a webinar on how both Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport are now compliant with the new Open Badges 2.0 standard (which was developed and released...
Turnitin has recently been updated from Classic to Feedback Studio, this blog post covers some of the changes that you will see when using the new interface. According to Turnitin: We’ve taken all of...
I recently attended the UCISA–DCG conference on digital capabilities, which took place from the 24th to 25th May in Southampton. This was my first conference as a TEL Assistant (with just a few weeks...