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 →
Here’s an interesting—probably apocryphal—story about the shampoo industry. A shampoo company was desperate to increase their profits. After many brain-storming sessions, the company came up with an ingenious and very inexpensive way to make consumers use twice as much shampoo as before thereby emptying the bottle twice as fast resulting in the need to buy another… Continue reading →
Last month, I had the privilege of participating in two ELESIG (Evaluation of e-Learner Experience Special Interest Group) events, at UCL (ELESIG London) and St Andrews University (ELESIG Scotland), and an M25 Learning Technology Group meeting, also held in UCL. ELESIG London (‘Come Evaluate with me’) on 11th November was organised by Leo Havemann from Birkbeck… 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 →
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 →
I don’t know what the week before semester was like for you? Here in the Digital Education Unit, in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Science (MVLS), it was a week of early mornings and late nights in the office. We were busily preparing our distance learners for the start of their online courses, commencing… Continue reading →