• iSpring: Video Case Study 1 of 3

    iSpring: Video Case Study 1 of 3

    iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 1 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters project in the use of iSpring. Over the coming weeks we’ll be sharing the knowledge and experience of three selected participants who have successfully embedded iSpring into their eLearning toolkit and produced some impressive learning materials…

  • BBC-featured History quiz engages students in HEA project

    BBC-featured History quiz engages students in HEA project

    Reflections on ‘What Kind of Historian are you?’ Quiz According to Mason Norton (Edge Hill University) and Dan Taylor (University of Roehampton), in history, there are four broad categories of historian: Empiricist Postmodernist ‘historian from below’ ‘top-down’ The categories emerged as part of the Developing Historical Thinking project run by Edge Hill and Roehampton, when…

  • Collaborate ‘Rooms’

    … a 24/7 classroom and/or your own ‘Virtual Office’. The recent upgrade to our Collaborate web conferencing system has added a ‘Rooms’ feature – i.e., every course and every instructor now have their own Collaborate ‘Room’ that is open 24/7 – with all the rich features of a web conferencing system such as audio, web…

  • Course User Management

    Following the our recent transition from the Section Merge Tool (SMT) to the Course Relationship Tool (CRT), I thought it would be a good idea to follow up with a blog post on some useful user management techniques in Learning Edge course areas.   Course Management – Control Panel The topics discussed will focus on the…