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You don’t have to create a fully fledged game for users to be able to engage and interact with an eLearning package. With a bit of creativity, its a pretty simple task to replicate the successes of games by including certain gaming elements. The following steps highlight areas that should be considered in any eLearning…
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A good video can go a long way to helping someone learn a complex task or set of instructions. Think of something like origami. There are printed guides that show step by step, but its sometimes hard to put it in context of the piece of paper sat in front of you and its easy…
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The following areas cover ways to best allow users to go take their own path through learning. As learning is not a linear process. Therefore, we shouldn’t create an eLearning package that is linear and dull. By allowing the user to decide, we can create various challenges and target a wider variety of experience levels.…
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The following steps are not an exhaustive list of how to’s, but a good starting point to aim for when developing any eLearning package. If you can tick most of these then the eLearning package will be far more interesting to the end users and they will benefit more from it. Discovery Its important to…
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Designing an eLearning package can be tricky. Especially when you first start out. You want to aim for a consistency across multiple packages so frequent users do not need to re-learn how to use something new each time. So its good to create a sort of template when starting, this will speed up future developments. By…
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There are many ways to develop eLearning materials, but they all require you to follow general rules to make them effective and to fully engage the user. Todays eLearners are used to using highly polished games, websites, apps and operating systems (be in desktop or mobile). Visuals are very important, they ensure quality and increase…
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— This post was written by Tim Wheeler — RECAP Repetition , exaggeration, chunking, association, pictures. Repetition Ever been told in school repeat after me, well teachers have known this for ever. Have you ever had an ear worm that just won’t go away, this is because of repetition, songs are made that way, having…
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Knowledge can be conveyed in many ways, TELMeD specialise in electronic learning environments. However were not just techies! We pride ourselves in enabling our students to have a productive and successful learning experience by embedding proven learning theory’s and models into our work. When developing learning environments there are also various models for a team to work from, that make…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — The 6th November marks 42 days since the last case of Ebola in Sierra Leone – meaning the country can be officially declared Ebola-free. This is a massive achievement for the local health professional and communities, and eBuddi has been credited as playing a role in…
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Over the summer PebblePad has had minor changes to make your experience easier and more intuitive. When you login to PebblePad you’ll now be greeted with a dashboard that lets you see: what you need to know; what you need to do; what you last worked on and some useful quick links. Pebble+, the place…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — How Object Oriented Programming (OOP) works Object Oriented Programming is a design philosophy or “paradigm” which is organized around reusable chunks of code called “objects” rather than a procedural list of instructions to be completed. OOP has four main concepts: Encapsulation – hiding data implementation by…
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Xerte Online Toolkits enable users to easily create accessible, interactive, and engaging e-learning resources, with no programming knowledge required. ASTI has been successfully providing this service to users across the University for a number of years. It has been our aim to widen the user-base of this service and integrate it with other University systems and…
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This blog post was created as a result of viewing a tutorial on Preventing Scope Creep by Terri Wagner. When starting any type of project, it is important to understand the goals and outcomes expected of the client whilst trying to gain maximum understanding of what would benefit the end user most. The difficulty with…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Yet again, another piece of work we started has been shortlisted for an EU Health Innovation Award. The project relates to a digital toolkit designed to provide a virtual classroom, and which has been used to train health care workers about infection prevention and control in countries affected…
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During the last academic year there have been a significant number of successful assessments submitted and marked electronically using the Moodle assignment tool. As a result of staff and student feedback there have been some changes made to both the technology and recommended practice in order to streamline and enhance the eSubmission processes in Moodle. This has…
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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — In TELMeD, we have decided to make more use of screencasts to provide both staff and students with quick helpful tips for a range of technologies we support; including the DLE, Pebblepad, and a number of our eResources. Screencasts are a great way of providing training…
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Plymouth University’s use of technology to advance learning development and excellence has been recognised at an international award ceremony. Two teams from the University achieved successes at the Learning Technologist of the Year Awards, organised by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), including sharing the Community Choice accolade. Staff from Academic Support, Technology and Innovation (ASTI)…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — We are delighted to inform that we are joint winner of TEL community choice awards for 2015 and recipient of the highly commended team award. You will find the open badges for the same on every page as we are extremely proud of the achievement specially being…
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Gamification is a term batted around a lot lately. It’s not a game like you’d play on the Playstation, nor is it a quick bit of mind numbing nonsense where you tap here, tap there and here’s some new levels you just unlocked. It’s a term being used to ‘gamify’ learning…generally speaking. Therefore it’s quite…
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ASTI are running a number of Office 365 awareness sessions as part of the Collaboration project. Come along to find out more and how Office 365 can work for you! FRIDAY, 4TH OF SEPTEMBER, PSQ STONEHOUSE LECTURE THEATRE 10:00 – 10:45 THURSDAY, 10TH OF SEPTEMBER, PSQ PLYMOUTH LECTURE THEATRE 15:00 – 15:45 THURSDAY, 17TH OF SEPTEMBER,…
