Our winter meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists group is due to take place as an online webinar on Wednesday 5th February 2020, 12:00-13:30. Microsoft Office365: What have we done about using it with students? Following on from the successful event we held on this topic in 2018 we wanted to explore where people […] View Article
Leave a commentThe session last week went well, with lots of lively discussion and sharing of ideas around the subject of assessment design for anonymous marking. Unfortunately, we were not able to record the presentation on the day as some of the conversations on this were of a sensitive nature due to some organisations being in the early stages of […] View Article
Leave a commentSpring is springing! Our spring meeting of the ALT East Midlands Learning Technologists group (EMLT) is due to take place on Thursday 11th April 2018 from 12:00-16:00 at Loughborough University. The theme this time is… Designing assessments for anonymous marking This event will explore anonymous marking and how we need to think carefully about how […] View Article
Leave a commentThis is a brief review of the UCISA Digital Education Group (DEG) event on immersive environments. I co-hosted the event with DEG colleague Farzana Latif, the Digital Learning Manager at the University of Sheffield. On a cold and dreary December day, we listened to ten presentations on various aspects of virtual and immersive environments in […] View Article
Leave a commentAs I sit on the A-Train (officially called the University of Colorado A Line for sponsorship reasons) from Denver to the airport, I’m reflecting a little on the events of the last week in Denver. It has been the most rewarding conference experience. The younger me would have been overawed at the sheer size of […] View Article
Leave a commentI say “day”, it’s more of a half day, and the numbers are rather thinning out after yesterday. With exhibitors packing up and going home (or taking half day trips to the mountains in the case of those I had dinner with last night) we are down to the hard core of attendees. We’re still […] View Article
Leave a commentSo here we are on day two of the main conference. It feels like it’s been going for a lot longer after a big day yesterday, and events on Tuesday too. Another 7:30am “braindate” (see yesterday’s post) kicked things off, and then the opening session in the big Bellco Theatre at 8am. In the blink […] View Article
Leave a commentIf you haven’t been following my series of posts, then I’ll just mention that this year I was one of the very lucky recipients of the UCISA bursary scheme, which has allowed me to be in Denver for the 2018 Educause conference. Today is the big day, when Educause 2018 opens to everyone. My day started at 7:30am […] View Article
Leave a commentAs I mentioned in my opening post, this year, I was one of the very lucky recipients of the UCISA bursary scheme, which has allowed me to be in Denver for the 2018 Educause conference. Today is the day before Educause 2018 gets underway in earnest. The Tuesday is characterised by a mixture of pre-conference workshops (additional registration […] View Article
Leave a commentThis year, I was one of the very lucky recipients of the UCISA bursary scheme, which has allowed me to be in Denver for the 2018 Educause conference. The Educause conference is something that has been on my radar for 20 years, and it’s no coincidence that it is celebrating 20 years this year. It […] View Article
Leave a commentOur winter meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists group is due to take place on Wednesday 28th November 2018, 12:00-16:00, University of Derby. Microsoft Office365: Moving beyond the office and into the classroom Many institutions are investing in cloud based solutions for their software with Microsoft one of the leading companies with their Office365 […] View Article
2 CommentsThe session last week went really well, with lots of lively discussion and sharing of ideas around the subject of Learning Analytics. The recordings of the presentations are available through the links although the sound quality is variable. I have also linked to the slides used in the presentations. Learning Analytics and Ethics – Niall […] View Article
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