Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange (ASKe) – is the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Oxford Brookes University Business School. It was set up in summer 2005 with a £4.5 million award (spread over five years) from HEFCE in recognition of good practice based on pedagogic research into aspects of assessment carried out [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘e-Learning’
7 May, 2009
Prezi – A different way of presenting
A colleague of mine recently delivered a presentation using http://prezi.com/. Probably. like you I’ve sat through and delivered many presentations using Powerpoint and I’m probably suffering from ‘PPT fatigue’. It was interesting to see this tool used, It uses Flash, so there are accessibility issues with using it, however it gives you a novel way [...]
27 January, 2009
I am a CMALTer
Received confirmation a couple of weeks ago that I now have CMALT status!
It was a useful exercise for me and brought a few work related issues into focus. Although I submitted on an individual basis all of the aspects of the application were projects and tasks that I’ve under taken as part of a group [...]
15 January, 2009
Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference
I attended the ninth annual Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference on January 8th and 9th. This was my second attendance at the conference, however, this time I presented at one of the sessions along with my colleague.
We presented on a project I am involved with at work which is about lecture and event capture implementation and use [...]
7 October, 2008
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media [...]
9 September, 2008
Hood 2.0, It’s a web 2.0 world
http://seesmic.com….How could it be used in your institution for learning and teaching?
Demonstration materials: Practical exercises, e.g. medical techniques, fine art techniques. demoing how to do things…?
Question and answer session both synchronous or asynchronous. Explain scenarios. Online community to create good practice…..not just in 1 institution but globally.
Study diary – e.g in medicine present their elective…i.e. [...]
5 September, 2008
First ALT-C Next Week
My first ever attendance at the ALT-C, hosted at Leeds Uni (my home town). Looking at the programme of activities it is crammed with lots and lots of events I’d like to see, which would prove impossible within the timescales! However to help with this, 3 of my colleagues are attending so we should be able [...]
28 July, 2008
101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
Here is the full link to this resource 101 tools.
Here are a few of them to browse:
Awasu - A state-of-the-art feed reader that comes loaded with features for both casual personal use and professional, high-powered information management
MyProjectpages.com – Built by teachers for teachers, use myprojectpages.com to create structured online inquiry-based learning activities for the courses you teach [...]
14 July, 2008
Free Courses Online at the Top 10 Universities
Top 10 Universities With Free Courses Online
#1 UC Berkeley
Berkeley offers podcasts and webcasts of professors lecturing. Each course has an RSS feed so you can track each new lecture. For printable assignments and notes you can check the professors homepage, which is usually given in the first lecture or google their name. Even though the [...]
8 July, 2008
Explanations in Plain English
I’m not talking about the latest explanation from my energy provider, explaining why costs are increasing or my bank explaining funding charges – but a site called Common Craft. They produce, among other things, easy to follow and understand video clips about commonly used technologies and products.
I like them for the main reason that [...]
17 June, 2008
Tangible Benefits of E-Learning in HE
A series of case studies have been compiled by JISC infoNet, The Higher Education Academy and the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). The web page explaining the project, the publication and the list of case studies can be browsed to at this link .
Having read the publication it is interesting to see the wide range [...]
11 June, 2008
QA/QE in E-Learning
On Monday I attended a one-day Workshop on “Effective application of quality assurance & enhancement procedures to courses using e-learning” @ the University of Teesside. The event was attended by practitioners in e-learning from across the HEI sector. It was a useful day for me to discover how other institutions view QA and [...]
