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The University of Plymouth currently has three Open Educational Resources (OER) projects funded by JISC and the Higher Education Academy. These projects are funded from Phase 2 of the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) programme, managed jointly by the Higher Education Academy and JISC. The programme runs between August 2010 and August 2011, it will build on and […]
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ELESIG (Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning Special Interest Group) is an international community of researchers and practitioners from HE and FE who work together to share knowledge and practice. On Wednesday 6th October I attended the above event to find out about the work involved in the JISC funded SLiDA Project – a study of […]
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One of the key elements of the Univeristy of Plymouth’s Building Capacity project is learning from the JISC funded Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA) project. In order to fully benefit from the LLiDA experience we are working with Helen Beetham, an expert in this area. Helen recently facilitated a workshop for us to […]
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One of the key elements of the Univeristy of Plymouth’s Building Capacity project is learning from the JISC funded Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA) project. In order to fully benefit from the LLiDA experience we are working with Helen Beetham, an expert in this area. Helen recently facilitated a workshop for us to […]
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Having just returned from ALT-C 2010 I picked up on a couple of interesting reports. The first of these is the JISC’s new guide Effective Assessment in a Digital Age, this demonstrates how technology can significantly improve the experience of assessment and feedback. As many higher education institutions are reviewing their assessment strategies, JISC is […]
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Podcasting has many benefits to both teaching staff and students. See the examples of good practice below for inspiration. Fiona Dalton – Plymouth Business School Fiona has been using podcasting now for some time. Fiona sets her 3rd year accounting students an assignment where they have to create a podcast detailing accounting practice. This has […]
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As part of the Teaching and Learning Directorate’s ‘Talking about Teaching’ seminar series Lawrie Phipps will be giving a seminar, titled ‘From Post 92 to Post Digital‘ on 12th February 2010 This session will draw up on the journey that universities have made from the early days of technology in learning through to what appear […]
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Enhancing Learning through Technology: Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series and Syntheses. As part of its HEFCE funded Enhancing learning through Technology programme the Higher Education Academy is working with institutions to synthesise and disseminate good practice in the use of technology to enhance learning teaching and assessment for the benefit of the wider HE community. Activities […]
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An Experiential Learning CETL funded project awarded to Dr Mark Anderson and Meriel Fitzpatrick. This project combined a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) with an interactive website. The PDAs were GPS enabled and students were provided with a GPS linked digital map of the location. Students take the PDAs with them to Kingsands (Cornwall), as they […]
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By Rob Giles for Maggie Hemsworth & Penny Howard Law & Social Science Litigation Module This project was designed to help students understand the nature of evidence simulation as used in real life scenarios. I decided that an animated 3D representation of the various witness descriptions of the described event would be the most appropriate […]
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This is a Teaching Fellowship Award project developed by Becky Freeman (Faculty of Arts Learning Technologist), Anthony Caleshu, (Programme Manager for English and Creative Writing, School of Humanities) and Mark Pannell (Learning Technologist). Since English and Creative Writing as a subject is mostly page-bound, students often have difficulty imagining how to use and indeed write […]
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UsPaCe was funded by the JISC under the JISC Capital Circular 1/07: Cross Institutional Support of Lifelong Learning programme and was a regional, cross-institutional, collaborative project that investigated the application of suitable Web 2.0 technologies to support: Foundation Degree (FdSc, FdA and HNC) learners engaged in Work Based Learning (WBL); learners progressing from Foundation Degree […]
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The University of Plymouth Colleges (UPC) Faculty (now Academic Partnerships) at Plymouth University required a repository to meet the needs of a regional partnership that would be capable of storing a range of materials including: teaching materials that can be used with a range of VLEs in use across the partnership research outputs that can […]
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Web2Rights is a JISC project, funded from 1st November 2007 – 31st March 2009, whose purpose was initially to develop practical, pragmatic and relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other legal issues toolkits to support the projects funded within the JISC Users and Innovation Programme (U&I) in their engagement with next generation technologies. The Web2Rights […]
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The aim of this project was to streamline the University of Plymouth Colleges (UPC) regional partnership’s approach to Accredited Prior Experiential Learning (APEL). This was accomplished by making recommendations and changes to work, policies and practice at Plymouth University and creating the Pineapple tool to support and guide tutors and administrators through the APEL process. This […]
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Tandem language learning involves two native speakers of different languages getting together to improve their language skills and learn more about each other’s culture, eg. a native French speaking student wanting to improve their English can “pair up” with an English student who is learning French. Once students have registered onto Tandem Exchange, they get […]
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Plymouth University purchased the right to use the content in 2007 and I was asked to create a ‘Plymouth’ version of the book, which includes checklists, pages for students’ own notes and links to further resources. Copies are given to students studying on the LTHE, GTA and PCET courses as well as teacher-training courses offered […]
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WrAssE (the Writing for Assignments e-Library) is a resource for learning about writing at university. It is a collection of real essays, reports and other written assignments from a range of subjects, with comments by subject staff saying what makes the writing good. The written extracts show examples of key ‘functions’ and ‘qualities’ of writing. […]
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Jordan’s Property is a simulation webpage form for searching for a particular property. Students were required to e-mail this information to the academic but this was a lengthy process. The academic was spending a lot of time checking the information provided by students manually, this was causing a knock-on effect to the students who would […]
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The aim of this project was to develop a web-based information platform to provide support for students with social anxiety. The platform needed to provide these students with a single, highly visible point of access to existing University support systems and also provide links to external sources of peer-support that utilise a self-help approach to […]
Category: Case Studies & Project Reports
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Open Educational Resources
The University of Plymouth currently has three Open Educational Resources (OER) projects funded by JISC and the Higher Education Academy. These projects are funded from Phase 2 of the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) programme, managed jointly by the Higher Education Academy and JISC. The programme runs between August 2010 and August 2011, it will build on and […]
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ELESIG SYMPOSIUM: Effective Learning in the Digital Age
ELESIG (Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning Special Interest Group) is an international community of researchers and practitioners from HE and FE who work together to share knowledge and practice. On Wednesday 6th October I attended the above event to find out about the work involved in the JISC funded SLiDA Project – a study of […]
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Digital Literacy
One of the key elements of the Univeristy of Plymouth’s Building Capacity project is learning from the JISC funded Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA) project. In order to fully benefit from the LLiDA experience we are working with Helen Beetham, an expert in this area. Helen recently facilitated a workshop for us to […]
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Digital Literacy at Plymouth
One of the key elements of the Univeristy of Plymouth’s Building Capacity project is learning from the JISC funded Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (LLiDA) project. In order to fully benefit from the LLiDA experience we are working with Helen Beetham, an expert in this area. Helen recently facilitated a workshop for us to […]
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Gleaned from ALT-C: Effective Assessment in a Digital Age and the NUS/ HSBC Students Research Experience Report
Having just returned from ALT-C 2010 I picked up on a couple of interesting reports. The first of these is the JISC’s new guide Effective Assessment in a Digital Age, this demonstrates how technology can significantly improve the experience of assessment and feedback. As many higher education institutions are reviewing their assessment strategies, JISC is […]
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Podcasting Experiences
Podcasting has many benefits to both teaching staff and students. See the examples of good practice below for inspiration. Fiona Dalton – Plymouth Business School Fiona has been using podcasting now for some time. Fiona sets her 3rd year accounting students an assignment where they have to create a podcast detailing accounting practice. This has […]
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From Post 92 to Post Digital
As part of the Teaching and Learning Directorate’s ‘Talking about Teaching’ seminar series Lawrie Phipps will be giving a seminar, titled ‘From Post 92 to Post Digital‘ on 12th February 2010 This session will draw up on the journey that universities have made from the early days of technology in learning through to what appear […]
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Enhancing Learning through Technology: Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series and Syntheses
Enhancing Learning through Technology: Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series and Syntheses. As part of its HEFCE funded Enhancing learning through Technology programme the Higher Education Academy is working with institutions to synthesise and disseminate good practice in the use of technology to enhance learning teaching and assessment for the benefit of the wider HE community. Activities […]
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Geology of Kingsands (mobile technologies)
An Experiential Learning CETL funded project awarded to Dr Mark Anderson and Meriel Fitzpatrick. This project combined a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) with an interactive website. The PDAs were GPS enabled and students were provided with a GPS linked digital map of the location. Students take the PDAs with them to Kingsands (Cornwall), as they […]
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Collision Simulation
By Rob Giles for Maggie Hemsworth & Penny Howard Law & Social Science Litigation Module This project was designed to help students understand the nature of evidence simulation as used in real life scenarios. I decided that an animated 3D representation of the various witness descriptions of the described event would be the most appropriate […]
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Dramatic Writing Utilising Virtual Worlds
This is a Teaching Fellowship Award project developed by Becky Freeman (Faculty of Arts Learning Technologist), Anthony Caleshu, (Programme Manager for English and Creative Writing, School of Humanities) and Mark Pannell (Learning Technologist). Since English and Creative Writing as a subject is mostly page-bound, students often have difficulty imagining how to use and indeed write […]
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UsPaCe – Web2.0 Tools
UsPaCe was funded by the JISC under the JISC Capital Circular 1/07: Cross Institutional Support of Lifelong Learning programme and was a regional, cross-institutional, collaborative project that investigated the application of suitable Web 2.0 technologies to support: Foundation Degree (FdSc, FdA and HNC) learners engaged in Work Based Learning (WBL); learners progressing from Foundation Degree […]
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UPlaCe – Repository
The University of Plymouth Colleges (UPC) Faculty (now Academic Partnerships) at Plymouth University required a repository to meet the needs of a regional partnership that would be capable of storing a range of materials including: teaching materials that can be used with a range of VLEs in use across the partnership research outputs that can […]
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Web2Rights – IPR
Web2Rights is a JISC project, funded from 1st November 2007 – 31st March 2009, whose purpose was initially to develop practical, pragmatic and relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other legal issues toolkits to support the projects funded within the JISC Users and Innovation Programme (U&I) in their engagement with next generation technologies. The Web2Rights […]
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Pineapple – APEL
The aim of this project was to streamline the University of Plymouth Colleges (UPC) regional partnership’s approach to Accredited Prior Experiential Learning (APEL). This was accomplished by making recommendations and changes to work, policies and practice at Plymouth University and creating the Pineapple tool to support and guide tutors and administrators through the APEL process. This […]
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Tandem Exchange Online
Tandem language learning involves two native speakers of different languages getting together to improve their language skills and learn more about each other’s culture, eg. a native French speaking student wanting to improve their English can “pair up” with an English student who is learning French. Once students have registered onto Tandem Exchange, they get […]
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In at the Deep End
Plymouth University purchased the right to use the content in 2007 and I was asked to create a ‘Plymouth’ version of the book, which includes checklists, pages for students’ own notes and links to further resources. Copies are given to students studying on the LTHE, GTA and PCET courses as well as teacher-training courses offered […]
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WrAssE – The Writing for Assignments e-Library
WrAssE (the Writing for Assignments e-Library) is a resource for learning about writing at university. It is a collection of real essays, reports and other written assignments from a range of subjects, with comments by subject staff saying what makes the writing good. The written extracts show examples of key ‘functions’ and ‘qualities’ of writing. […]
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Jordan’s Property
Jordan’s Property is a simulation webpage form for searching for a particular property. Students were required to e-mail this information to the academic but this was a lengthy process. The academic was spending a lot of time checking the information provided by students manually, this was causing a knock-on effect to the students who would […]
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iHub
The aim of this project was to develop a web-based information platform to provide support for students with social anxiety. The platform needed to provide these students with a single, highly visible point of access to existing University support systems and also provide links to external sources of peer-support that utilise a self-help approach to […]