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Apr
02
2025

One year on – Blackboard Ally Institution Report Over Time

Digital Accessibility SIG Digital literacy

Following my presentation at #ALTC24, I wanted to share an update on our progress with Blackboard Ally. Back in September,… View Article

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Jan
31
2025

Building digital confidence: a student programme for skill development in the digital age

Digital literacy Online learning

The Context In this post, we’re going to introduce you to a project that the Digital Learning team at the… View Article

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Feb
27
2024

Prompting engineering or AI literacy? How to develop a critical awareness of Generative AI in education

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Digital literacy

Prompting engineering and Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy are not, per se, antithetic concepts. As a matter of fact, prompting engineering… View Article

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Books
Oct
18
2021

Wikipedia and Me: A student’s viewpoint, exploring issues and making changes

Community Digital literacy

Hi, my name is Sara Singh, and I am about to start my second year at Liverpool John Moores University… View Article

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Oct
10
2019

The importance of induction courses in online international programmes.

Community Digital divides Digital literacy Online learning

A common assumption when launching online programmes aimed at global audiences is that, provided the potential applicants fulfil the entry… View Article

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Oct
08
2018

Important New Accessibility Regulations

Digital literacy Featured post

  This blog post has been based on ‘Accessible Virtual Learning Environments: Making the most of new regulations’ (All-Party Parliamentary… View Article

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Sep
10
2018

ALTC 2018: to student data, and beyond!

ALT25 Digital literacy Innovative practice Learning Technology Research

I’m approaching this year’s ALTC with even more anticipation that usual – partly it’s because we are celebrating ALT’s 25… View Article

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Aug
29
2018

How Can We Identify and Communicate Ideas and Discussions about the Digital Society?

ALT25 Book reviews Digital literacy

Every summer I take the opportunity of catching up on some reading on technology. Sometimes this involves going through the… View Article

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Aug
01
2018

Are creative media students really digitally literate?

ALT25 Digital literacy In my opinion

As the Association for Learning and Technology (ALT) conference approaches in September 2018, I reflect on the current position of… View Article

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