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This is the last chance to register interest in presenting at this event! If you have used technology to enhance teaching and would like to share your experiences with others at this event please email a paragraph about the work you have been doing to asti@plymouth.ac.uk by next Wednesday 15th June, so we can include […]
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If you want an update on the University’s Open Educational Resources projects the project teams have just produced a newsletter detailing activity and progress. Download the University of Plymouth’s OER Newsletter
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eGo: using the web safely & confidently to promote yourself through networking on Prezi A workshop presentation introducing students to tools on the web to enhance professional social networking How to view… Press the play button (grey arrow) to start the presentation. Next click on the circle icon to centre the presentation and click on […]
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eBooks are just like traditional paperback books except they are electronic copies that you read on electronic devices such as computers, mobile or tablet devices. Just like traditional books, they can contain both text and images but also offer a host of benefits (see below), however they are not always attuned to everybody’s taste and […]
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A number of University of Plymouth projects (the 3 OER projects, Pineapple and Building Capacity) will be presenting at this event. JISC RSC South West Project Expo Event 2011 Taunton Rugby Club, 6th April 2011 -PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE- JISC is at the heart of UK Further and Higher education, driving the innovative use of technology to support the sector’s activity and […]
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Turnitin is an Internet-based originality checking tool which allows documents to be compared with content on the Internet, in journals and an archive of previously submitted works for any matching content. The system is based entirely online allowing users to access it from any Internet enabled computer, anywhere and at any time. This is a […]
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JISC has announced its latest call for funding proposals for projects to undertake work under the sixth round of its Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants Programme. JISC wishes to fund one year projects and activities (up to £50,000) that fit with the vision, outcomes and principles of the JISC e-Learning programme and support innovative approaches […]
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IPR Intellectual Property (IP) is any tangible result of having an idea and can be protected for the owner under a number of different IP rights (IPR) including patent, design, trademark and copyright law. Information about the types and scope of IPR can be found at the UK government’s Intellectual Property Office web site. The JISC funded Web2Rights project has considered the use of […]
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QuestionMark Perception (QMP) is an online assessment and reporting tool used at Plymouth University. QMP allows you to create a library of questions, which when brought together, allow you to build excellent online assessments for your students. Students access scheduled assessments through a virtual learning environment and results can then be viewed online or downloaded as necessary. The […]
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<New version to be replaced shortly> There’s lots of content you can legally use to enhance web publications if you know where to look. Images Photo Pin is a web-based tool that searches creative commons photos for you to use in your blog/ website. Just type in what you’re searching for, preview the photo and […]
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Why not use a comic strip to introduce a topic or put across a key message? The above was created using toonlet, who describe their site as ‘webcomic blogging in minutes’. It’s very quick and easy to create. Once you’ve registered you’re presented with a blank comic strip template with text and speech boxes that […]
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Fieldwork is central to the culture, practices and pedagogy of geography, earth and environmental sciences, and many other disciplines, including biosciences, built environment, religious studies and the social sciences. It can be defined, in the context of student learning, as “any arena or zone within a subject where supervised learning can take place via first-hand […]
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The EDOR Project is funded as part of the JISC/HEA Phase 2 of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Open Material for Accredited Courses (OMAC) Programme. The EDOR Project aims to establish a collection of critically evaluated teaching materials on a range of educational and staff development topics for the broader UK HE community. All materials […]
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The Learning from WOeRK project is funded through the Higher Education Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme – Phase 2. The Learning from WOeRK Project will produce open resources which support learning in the workplace and continuing professional development (CPD). Resources equivalent to 360 credits are being developed under 3 broad themes: learning through work, research […]
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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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OK – just missed Halloween (doh!) but here’s a cautionary tale about the possible perils of using social networking sites… Open publication – Free publishing – More privacy I was asked by Lee Wright, a Lecturer in Midwifery, to create a resource to advise Health & Midwifery students about using social networking sites. Working with […]
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Facebook recently modified its ‘Groups’ feature to provide a range of functionality that will certainly help make it more useful to those of us using Facebook within our teaching practice, albeit with a few challenges. There is some further description in this post by allfacebook.com. You will see that now, everyone can post links, photos, videos […]
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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 […]
