It’s hard to believe just over a week ago one of the biggest learning technology events in the UK took place – the Association for Learning Technology conference, or ALT-C, as it’s known. Held at the University of Warwick between 6-8 September, 2016, the conference included some inspiring keynotes. Josie Fraser cautioned on the dangers… 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 →
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 →
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 →
On 4th March, LTU ran its first #BoldChat session, on the topic of blended and online learning development. The Tweetchat was inspired by having taken part in other Tweetchats like #LTHEchat which takes place on Wednesday evenings, 8-9pm UK time. Sarah and I wanted to try this bitesize CPD approach for staff at Glasgow interested… Continue reading →
Further to Sarah’s previous blog post, we will soon be running our first #BoldChat session on Twitter. We find tweetchats really useful as a form of ‘bitesize CPD’, and would like to encourage everyone interested in blended or online learning to join us. The format for #BoldChat is a slow chat which means that you… 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 →