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Jul
24
2025

Managing Digital Assessments Webinar 

Assessment Digital Assessment SIG Digital literacy Events Online assessment Webinars

On the 20th of May we held our last webinar of this academic year. Thank you to our presenters for… View Article

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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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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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