Our next webinar is on Wednesday 14th April 2021 1.00pm – 2.00pm. Use this link to book your place. Title: The use of learning design within the virtual learning environment to promote students’ metacognitive skills Speakers: Drs James Matthews, Crystal Fulton and Emma O’Neill, are UCD Fellows in Teaching and Academic Design and came together to […] View Article
Notes from ELESIG 2021 Webinar Series: second webinar on Wednesday March 24th 2021, 1pm – 2pm with presenters: Sarah Knight, Head of data and digital capability, Jisc Ruth Drysdale, Senior consultant, data and digital capability, Jisc Highlights With the continued pandemic, and the requirement of students in further and higher education to continue to learn […] View Article
The ELESIG Webinar Series are back! We have had our first webinar on Thursday March 11th 2021, 1pm – 2pm with presenters: Professor Alejandro (Ale) Armellini – Dean of Digital and Distributed Learning (University of Portsmouth) Virginia Teixeira Antunes – Independent consultant working in the education sector Rob Howe – Head of Learning Technology (University […] View Article
In the last few months, I have been immersed in transferring our outputs of the ELESIG community from our ‘old’ social networking site, ning, to our new home, ALT’s repository, to our Archive. Our ELESIG community was formed in 2008 and we joined ALT’s umbrella in 2019. Our community came together because we had wanted […] View Article
Would you like to join the ALT ELESIG Scholar Scheme (pilot)? The Scholar Scheme (pilot) will be 6 months in duration. It will commence in February 2021 and complete in July 2021. The scheme is seeking both scholar applicants and scholar advisors. Scholar applicants are those seeking a professional learning opportunity Scholar advisors are experienced […] View Article
Each of the incoming officers was asked to write about why they were interested in applying for the role. This is what they have written. Chair: Denise Sweeney In my current role in the School of Education, University of Nottingham I support university teachers to reflect on their teaching practice with the aim of enhancing […] View Article
Background ALT ELESIG advocates for the theory and practice of researching learners’ experience in the context of technology-enhanced learning (TEL), formerly referred to as e-learning. Established in 2008, ELESIG (Evaluating Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group), has raised the importance and profile of learner experience research nationally and internationally with the help of its […] View Article
Kia ora and hello from Aotearoa/New Zealand. I am an academic specialising in educational/curriculum development at the University of Auckland. My work and doctoral research focus on building capacity for teaching with technologies, drawing on my own experiences as a student and creator/facilitator of postgraduate courses. I first got acquainted with the ELESIG community when […] View Article
Who are you? Hi, I am Jess (@jess_humphreys) and I work at the University of Warwick as a Senior Academic Developer. I am course lead for the Postgraduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning leading to AFHEA or FHEA. More recently I have taken on the lead of our Learning Design Consultancy Unit – working with […] View Article
Who are we? The Scottish regional group has members from all over Scotland including Higher Education and Further Education as well as those working independently. Some members have a very specific interest in online teaching and learning as learning technologists, others are academics who have a more general interest in how we use technologies to […] View Article
