From 1 February 2017, the Learning & Teaching Centre will be streamlined into staff-facing and student-facing teams, and reborn as the Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service (LEADS). The new structure and new name are the result of work over the last few months to identify how the University can best support, enhance and develop… Continue reading →
Niall has written a post for his personal blog about making his video ident to add his personal image to his online videos series. I love post that take the reader step by step through a process explaining how to recreate a result, and this definitely does that. You can read the whole post here.
Recently, at very short notice, the LTU were asked by JISC to give a presentation to the Connect more… in Scotland event. We were delighted to do so and we (me, Craig John and Niall) put our heads together to come up with the following abstract and slides: As a Learning Technology Unit, supporting core services such… 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 →
Do you use Twitter? Or would you like to? I love Twitter for the connections it helps me make, and I follow hashtags such as #DigPed, #CLMooc and #LTHE to help me to find interesting conversations. I often lurk in Twitter chats such as #LTHECHAT (which happens on Wednesdays at 8 – 9pm GMT – teatime… Continue reading →
As a course convenor for some distance learning courses at the University of Aberdeen until a couple of years ago I was adept at using Bloom’s taxonomy in order to design ILOs and and to write essay and exam questions. Yesterday, as I caught up with the reading for this iteration of #MoocMooc: MMID: SUBVERSION AND INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN (a… Continue reading →
When Vicki and I found out a few months ago that one of the new Futurelearn MOOCs we’d be supporting was on Burns and was due to launch on Burns night (25th January 2016) we were excited and a little bit apprehensive. Excited because it’s a fabulous subject and we knew that there was a… Continue reading →
Are you or your colleagues irritated by the volume of emails Moodle sends you? If so, you can control this in your user settings. Log into Moodle and select “Preferences” at the top right of the screen. Then use the drop down list under “Forum preferences” and select one of the “daily email” options and save… Continue reading →
There was a lively discussion recently on our “TELT contacts” email list about the various methods used to record and monitor student attendance. It’s obvious that this is a subject that a lot of folk are interested in, and that there is no one system in use. I set up a Google Form to record… Continue reading →