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Once again the Plymouth e-Learning Conference was a fun, lively and stimulating event, with a wide range of inputs from across the globe. Keynote speakers Josie Fraser and Dave White both contributed significantly to generating a sense of discussion and debate across the two day programme. Josie explored some of the issues of community, identity,…
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For some time there has been a need for a simple formative assessment tool at the University of Plymouth, one which would enable quick and easy production of formative and self-assessment quizzes and questions, and which would easily deliver these assessments on-demand to students via the Web. Now it seems a solution may be here.…
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JISC has announced its latest call for funding proposals for projects to undertake work under the fifth 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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Following on from Lawrie Phipps’s presentation we are now able to link to the video of Post 92 to Post digital http://video.plymouth.ac.uk/tvb/12-02-10Post92_to_PostDigitalLP.wmv Post 92 to Post Digital
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On Friday 12th February Lawrie Phipps, (JISC Programme Manager, Users and Innovation) gave the inaugural presentation for the University’s Teaching and Learning Directorate’s ‘Talking about Teaching’ seminar series. Lawrie, who in a previous career, was one of the Univeristy’s first Learning Technologists in the mid 1990s before moving onto TechDis and JISC gave an excellent…
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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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The 5th Plymouth e-Learning Conference (8th-9th April 2010) will examine the theme of e-learning in a time of change, and will challenge notions of traditional boundaries, learning spaces and roles. We will focus on new practices, new technologies, new environments and new learning. There will be primary, secondary and tertiary education threads. We invite papers…
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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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Again, this is taken from the PowerPoint presentation by Dr Simon Ball, Senior Advisor, JISC TechDis Services (January 2008). Please note – wherever you are on the spectrum from ‘technically savvy’ to ‘a bit nervous of trying new things’, you should find something that works for you (hopefully)! Instant Presenter Instant Presenter is pay-per-use webcasting software. This screenshot shows…
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Accessibility is the process of making something (a discrete as a web page or Word document, or as broad as ‘the student experience’) fit for purpose for all potential users. This means producing resources or experiences that each user can interact with appropriately – but it does not mean that all resources must be equally…
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A reusable learning object (RLO) is a self-contained learning resource, usually stored digitally and delivered online, the study of which requires much less time than traditional learning packages, typically a few minutes. They are considered reusable as a single learning object may be used in a number of contexts, perhaps the subject matter of the learning object…
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These days we are increasingly sharing thoughts, experiences, images and self-produced videos online. The internet provides a platform enabling anyone to be an author, director, entertainer and/ or critic. We can be who or whatever we want to be through our ‘digital identity’. However, just as you need to be ‘streetwise’ in the physical world, so…
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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…
