Wikipedia and Me: A student’s viewpoint, exploring issues and making changes
October 18, 2021 11:41 amHi, my name is Sara Singh, and I am about to start my second year at Liverpool John Moores University…
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Introducing the Digital Learning Design Toolkit for course teams.
July 23, 2021 11:15 amTeesside University in collaboration with Jisc UK have developed a Digital Learning Design Toolkit. There was a time before Covid…
Help is at hand: an open course to support the transition to online teaching.
July 6, 2021 3:51 pmThe pandemic has fundamentally altered approaches to work, teaching and study. There has been an unprecedented shift to online learning…
I don’t want to go back to normal!
April 16, 2021 8:30 amThese pandemic reflections are shared with us by Ian Wilson who invites us to consider what our “new normal” may…
Pandemic pedagogy: in praise of collaboration and compassion.
March 20, 2021 9:28 amSamantha Ahern is Faculty Learning Technology Lead at University College London. She wrote to the blog to share her reflections…
A Learning Technologist sits a Proctored Exam
March 10, 2021 2:15 pmOn one hand, I’d been genuinely excited at the prospect of experiencing real life proctored assessment from the student perspective. …
ePortfolios for educators
June 12, 2020 4:47 pmBackground: Earlier in the year I shared a resource I had been working on that I started to develop as…
A brief history of ALT East England (1 year in).
January 25, 2020 7:36 amBeing new to the profession at the end of 2018, I reached out to other Learning Technologists in the region…
What is NMIS-Skills?
August 6, 2019 8:07 amNMIS-Skills is part of the wider National Manufacturing Institute Scotland project. NMIS aims to “to be a distributed industry-led international…
Reflections on the White Rose Learning Technologists’ Forum, 17th April 2019
May 31, 2019 12:59 pmThe Forum met at the University of York recently to consider issues surrounding accessibility and inclusivity. There were three very…
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Palestinian HEIs: An e-Learning Initiative that Bridges Educational and Socio-Political Gaps “TEFL-ePAL”
May 20, 2019 12:59 pmThis event was part of an Erasmus Plus research project and was designed to showcase digital language teaching in the…
e-portfolios for assessment: Podcast
November 1, 2018 2:47 pmWhat could be better that a coffee and a chat? Lisa Donaldson harnessed the power of the coffee break to…