Last week was ALT-C, the annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology. This year it was down in Manchester, and – much to our surprise and delight – it was beautiful weather throughout the three days that we were visiting. Kerr Gardiner, Niall Barr and I (Sarah Honeychurch) all had presentations to give. I was first,… Continue reading →
On 19th August we had a visit from David Major, the learning technologist from Futurelearn (the company we are partnered with to run some MOOCs). We currently have nine new MOOCs being developed, and it was lovely to gather together representatives from across the courses in one room. It was a lively day – David is a fount… Continue reading →
We’re usually fairly good at talking about things that have gone well, less prone to mentioning (especially in public) when things do not go as planned. Yet we can learn from our mistakes, and the mistakes of others, so this is probably something we should do more of. So let me tell you a story… Continue reading →
Over the last few months Craig and John have been spending a lot of time revamping our web pages. Building on existing support materials, they have tidied up our existing user guides, written additional ones, spent many hours making videos of all of these (often thwarted by pipers, grass cutters and road works) and uploaded… Continue reading →
By Leah Marks. University Teacher, Medical Genetics As I looked at the calendar earlier this week, I knew the date felt vaguely familiar but couldn’t quite place it. Suddenly it dawned on me why the 19th May was engraved on my memory – it was that day last year that Glasgow’s first MOOC ‘Cancer in… Continue reading →
By Dave Morrison. Research Assistant, LEAF Project In this post I’d like to give an academic perspective on new learning technologies: the good, the bad, and the ugly. First I should confess that before coming to academic development I was a software developer (many moons ago). Perhaps that can help me shed a light on… Continue reading →
By Sarah Honeychurch. Learning Technology Specialist, Learning Technology Unit If you’re like me, then you’ll love adding pretty pics to your posts to make them look, well, pretty – but you’ll not have a lot of time to spend working out which images you can legally use and how to attribute them properly. Well, fear… Continue reading →