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Jan
14
2019

DigiReady: Equipping our students for the modern workplace

Case studies Community Innovative practice

It has never been more important to prepare our students for the modern workplace by equipping them with future facing,… View Article

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Oct
19
2018

DigiLearn: Building community, sharing practice and recognising achievement

Case studies Community Innovative practice

  How do we recognise and share the digital achievements of our academic colleagues? At the University of Central Lancashire,… View Article

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Oct
01
2018

Using Mahara to Supervise Thesis students

Case studies

At Cranfield Defence and Security, one of four schools of Cranfield University, there is a process for supervisors and students… View Article

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May
08
2018

Students’ learning responses to receiving dashboard data

Case studies Featured Learning Technology Research

Learning analytics is a burgeoning area of interest to the learning technology and wider educational community at the moment.  The… View Article

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May
01
2018

Ingredients for change

Case studies Project learning

  In the video post below, Paul shares how focusing on people and culture has been the key criteria to… View Article

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Apr
18
2018

The eight pillars of pain, some reflections on designing an online information literacy resource.

Case studies In my opinion

Last year at OER I was carried away on a cloud of enthusiasm and promised faithfully to write a blog… View Article

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Feb
19
2018

LTHEchat – The story of a Community of Practice through Twitter

Case studies Innovative practice

Introduction: The Story / How it Happened   The original idea for an ongoing tweetchat for professional development came from… View Article

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Feb
19
2018

Quality Assurance of MOOC-based curricula: a project report from Kiron

Case studies Featured post

Hannes Niedermeier shares an update on how Kiron Open Higher Education is developing a multi-layered quality assurance model for MOOCs,… View Article

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Jan
16
2018

The development of an accessible Library Management System (LMS)

Case studies

Making our library more accessible to all our learners. View Article

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Jan
16
2018

How we scaled professional recognition for staff working with Learning Technology at the University of Edinburgh

Case studies Community Member benefit

Creating a digital Culture For the last 18 months I’ve been working on an ongoing project to support the professional… View Article

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Oct
09
2017

How and why should Learning Technologists engage with start-ups?

Case studies Community Featured post

A conversation between Anders Krohn, CEO at Aula Education, and Dr Maren Deepwell, CEO at ALT. At the recent ALT… View Article

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Oct
04
2017

BYOD Digital Exams at Brunel University

Case studies Innovative practice

Since 2015 Brunel University London has been running a pilot programme testing the feasibility of digital written exams.  The approach… View Article

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