On Friday, we were privileged to host an LTC lunchtime CPD workshop run by UCL Digital Education colleagues, Drs Clive Young and Nataša Perović, on their ABC Curriculum Design approach. There were 32 participants from across all four colleges, and the energy in the room was indicative of the huge interest generated. The ABC Curriculum… Continue reading →
Last week, I was kindly invited by Dr Jo-Anne Murray to present some ideas to the MVLS TELT group on e-learning evaluation and scholarship. MVLS is already doing a lot of great work in this area, and the purpose of the talk was to celebrate and identify ways to build on existing good practice. As… Continue reading →
A number of the TELT community at Glasgow were able to attend Moodle MOOT. I’ve put together some of our impressions from the MVLS Digital Education Unit. Key-take aways We were quite impressed by the workbook that Napier University had developed from Moodle quiz. It was similar to a reflective journal, where student responses were saved… Continue reading →
Shazia and I have been using Facebook groups since 2010 (originally with Lorna Love to support what we call VPAL – virtual peer assisted learning. We’ve presented at many conferences and written papers about it, the past being at Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference in December last year (paper forthcoming). Recently Dustin Hosseini from… Continue reading →
Here at the University of Glasgow we believe that it’s important that Moodle is kept up to date. First, because we want to take advantage of any new and improved features of Moodle and second because Moodle HQ do not support older versions of Moodle, leaving them potentially problematic from a security point of view.… Continue reading →