In November last year, I wrote a blogpost talking about the use of response systems in the classroom and introducing YACRS. Two days ago, I received the following email from John Womersley, one of the two people who (we think) invented the very first classroom response system used at Glasgow. In his email he talks… Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Have you heard the news? Clickers are out and web-based classroom response systems are in. What is she on about (I hear you ponder)? Well, have you ever seen students using clickers to answer questions in a lecture theatre? At UoG they’re usually small green handsets and they look like this: They’re a clever bit… Continue reading →
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 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 →