Innovative practice : #ALTC Blog

Feb

2018

LTHEchat – The story of a Community of Practice through Twitter

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

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Oct

2017

#HEBlogSwap – Sharing Practice and Building Community in Cyberspace

The idea of the #HEblogswap arose in September 2016 when Santanu Vasant approached me via Twitter to do a blog… View Article

BYOD Digital Exams at Brunel University

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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

2017

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

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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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Jun

2017

Can teaching excellence be promoted through the development of digital capabilities?

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The question in the title of this blog post was raised by the QAA commissioned research report “Digital… View Article

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May

2017

Editing and co-authoring for online publication

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This is the story of the creation and publication of the #EdTechRations book as told by its creator, David… View Article

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Mar

2017

Developing a Learning Environment in WordPress

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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

2017

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

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

Educational Developers Cookbook

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When my children were small quite often I’d be asked to contribute a family recipe to a book which would… View Article

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"Week Five: Google Hangouts, Collaborate Ultra and Wikimedia" flickr photo by interactive.content https://flickr.com/photos/interactive-content/29187670640 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

Jan

2017

#23things – how taking part turned into a digital knowledge habit

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When the 23 Things for Digital Knowledge course #23things was launched in September 2016 by the University of Edinburgh I… View Article

A Review of the Digital Accessibility FutureLearn Course

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A Review of the Digital Accessibility FutureLearn Course Have you ever tried using your computer with your eyes closed? Or… View Article

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Sep

2016

Moving beyond using WordPress for everything: what was it like using Weebly?

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If you are on the ALT mailing list, you may remember my name and this particular subject. In the summer of… View Article

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