For some reason I seem to have established a pattern where I only attend the OER conferences every other year.… View Article
At the last West Midlands group meeting, it was decided to adopt a new approach and write a collaborative blog. People were invited to write about what they thought about the day, what stood out for them, and what they would take away? Lynne Taylerson I think for me the key questions were around practitioner […] View Article
Origins: Students as Wikipedia Editors It all started in 2016. As part of a course assignment, Master’s-level students at the… View Article
Greetings to all of our Learning Spaces SIG members! As you’ve no doubt, noticed… This group has become a bit quiet. This is due to those of us who have been attempting to run the SIG, being extraordinarily busy in our regular 9-5 jobs. (Please note, I’m a Yankee, and tend to write like one… […] View Article
The OER19 Conference is nearly upon us and will take place at the National University of Ireland in Galway. It will focus on the following themes: Back to basics – asking difficult questions about open education: Why open? Open for whom? Whose interests are served? In what ways has the open agenda been appropriated, and […] View Article
Spring is springing! Our spring meeting of the ALT East Midlands Learning Technologists group (EMLT) is due to take place on Thursday 11th April 2018 from 12:00-16:00 at Loughborough University. The theme this time is… Designing assessments for anonymous marking This event will explore anonymous marking and how we need to think carefully about how […] View Article
An opportunity to hear about open practices in education and to discuss barriers to adoption as part of Open Education week 2019. We will be joined by Shona Whyte, Associate Professor of English at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France who will share her findings from research into teacher adoption of open practices. Her presentation is […] View Article
We invite you to join us for an ALT West Midlands regional group meeting focusing on the topic of ‘Critical Digital Literacies’. Date and Time: Monday, March 18, 2019, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM GMT Location: Warwick University, Experimental Teaching Space, The Library, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV47AL. View Map As a convergence of both digital and critical literacies, critical […] View Article
Interest sparked in 360-degree video for learning Since 2017, Leicester Medical School has been experimenting with 360-degree video for learning. Following the first live-streamed medical surgical operation done by Dr Shafi Ahmed (McGoogan and Murgia, 2016), medical students’ interest was ignited. Leicester Medical School’s student society MedRIFT (Medical Research into Future Technology), which I founded […] View Article
Since September, much has happened and so we are are now sharing more of what we have been up to… View Article
Imagine you had to make the most accessible conference ever. What would you need to consider? Venue, Price, Location, Cost,… View Article
It has never been more important to prepare our students for the modern workplace by equipping them with future facing,… View Article
