Our winter meeting of the East Midlands Learning Technologists group is due to take place as an online webinar on Wednesday 5th February 2020, 12:00-13:30. Microsoft Office365: What have we done about using it with students? Following on from the successful event we held on this topic in 2018 we wanted to explore where people […] View Article
Leave a commentCarrying out an inter-institutional collaboration on a particular research project of common interest was one of the suggested activities for our Special Interest Group by our members during our consultation exercise. Many a times we undertake small-scale research projects related to using technologies individually. But what if we all joined forces to design and carry […] View Article
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This time I am joined by Ian Dolphin, the Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation. Ian and I have a… View Article
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This blog post is shared as part of the Open Education SIG twitter chat for ALT’s winter conference 2019 which… View Article
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We employed an ARU student (Kate Laver, MA Film and Television Production) as an intern for an employability initiative and… View Article
Leave a commentALT ELESIG was officially launched at the ALT conference in Sep 2019. In this blog post and at the online Winter Conference of ALT, we would like to mark the launch of our new platform under ALT as a Special Interest Group. So who are we? We are a community of researchers and practitioners involved […] View Article
Leave a commentMeet-up If you have not yet attended a LS-Sig Campus meet-up, the day is formed of group presentation/discussion on a series of issues involving learning space design and implementation held in the morning, followed by campus tours/discussions of best-practice used at the hosting-institution’s spaces that finish out the afternoon. Themes for the 8th of January […] View Article
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Digital literacy is a prerequisite to digital learning, and a vital aspect of the working lives of learning technologists. It… View Article
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Background to the series Inspired by topical discussions on the diversity, complexity and uniqueness of Learning Technologist roles, Daniel Scott… View Article
2 CommentsContributed by Terese Bird @tbirdcymru As Leicester Medical School’s Educational Designer I oversee the School’s one-iPad-per-student programme. The iPads serve as a digital platform on which we have freedom and flexibility to learn more creatively than traditional methods. Using off-the-shelf apps, our own VLE Blackboard, and ebooks shared out by our Library, students digitally take […] View Article
1 CommentHello to our Learning Spaces SIG members… As you may or may not know, the LS-Sig tries to hold two campus-tour/meetups of our group every year. We endeavour to hold them around the country as much as possible, to allow everyone to have a chance to hopefully make it to at least ONE venue a […] View Article
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This time I am joined by Pat Lockley (@pgogy), Chief Pogoing Penguin, Pgogy Webstuff. Pat’s work has long inspired me… View Article
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