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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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LTHE Chat Banner
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)

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

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Applicants and Holders
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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Jul
20
2017

Video games in higher education: using video games to develop graduate attributes

Case studies Innovative practice

Despite a growing body of writing on the subject of game-based learning – Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach… View Article

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Mar
30
2017

Developing a Learning Environment in WordPress

Case studies Innovative practice

Background In 2013 the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team in Manchester Medical School (MMS) started a review of current learning… View Article

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Mar
13
2017

Outstanding use of technology for improving teaching, learning and assessment in Further Education 2017

Case studies Innovative practice Project updates

The 2017 #TESFEawards saw Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College (WLC) receive the award for ‘Outstanding use of technology for… View Article

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Jan
13
2017

Open Learning as Lifelong Learning: Conduit for education in South Korea

Case studies Open education

  South Korea is developing open learning on par with any nation in the world, fuelled essentially by virtually unlimited… View Article

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Aug
24
2016

Introducing Twitter into the classroom: a multimodal analysis

Case studies Innovative practice

  In a recent practitioner- research study in a Computing department at University College Isle of Man, I explored the… View Article

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