Upcoming Academic Development Masterclasses
Measuring Learning Gain in Higher Education with Corony Edwards 28 March 9.00am – 10.00pm DG126 What exactly is meant by learning gain in the context of HE? How might it be measured, using what sort...
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Bring your Own Device for Learning #BYOD4L 2017
16th – 20th January 2017 This is the 5th time the BYOD4L program has run. It is a bite-size open course offered over 5 days for educators and students in HE, as well as...
‘TEL’ Me About… Workshops
Throughout this 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 and...
Spotlight on Digital Capabilities III: Developing Academic Staff Digital Capabilities
“Digital Capabilities can be defined as the skills and/or competencies required for living, learning and working in a digital society.” (Jisc, 2015). The Jisc Digital Capability Framework provides a structure to help individuals understand...
ePedagogy Open Space Event
ePedagogy Open Space Event Wednesday 18 May 2016, 2.00-4.00pm, Students’ Union Café. What is Open Space? Open Space is a way of facilitating events which does not rely on a formal agenda. There is...
Learn with Lynda: Infographics Fundamentals
This month, on my way back from an event in London, I watched the ‘Infographics Fundamentals‘ course by Amy Balliett. Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended...
Jisc Student Experience Experts Group Meeting
On 20th April I went down to Birmingham for the Jisc Student Experience Experts Group Meeting. This was a meeting of the student experience experts group (formerly the learning and teaching experts group), and...
Day 9 of #YSJ10DoT: Managing Information
Yesterday, we looked at some useful ways of filtering out the ‘noise’ on Twitter by tailoring what you see on your feed. Today, we’ll go a step further with managing Twitter content and introduce some tools...
Day 8 of #YSJ10DoT: Twitter Feeds & Tweetchats Revisited!
Over the last seven days, you may have found that as you continue to use Twitter, you come across more and more interesting people to follow and your following grows exponentially. Keeping track of...
Day 7 of #YSJ10DoT: Hashtags and Trends
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....