• Summer’s over… Let’s welcome the new term!

    We wave goodbye to the long days, sunshine(?!) and quiet campus but instead we greet our new students and all the fun – and challenges – that the new term brings! So what’s been happening lately in the world of learning technology? Well, possibly not much that you can actually see but plenty has been…

  • Blackboard Collaborate Case Study 2 of 3

    Blackboard Collaborate Case Study 2 of 3

    Lesley Briscoe, Senior Lecturer on the International Midwifery Programme.  Lesley explains in this the second in a series of three video case studies (click to view the first in the series), the challenges of delivering a programme aimed at both conventional students and those accessing the programme online and from overseas. She goes on to mention the…

  • Blackboard Collaborate – Video Case Study 1 of 3

    Blackboard Collaborate – Video Case Study 1 of 3

    David Callaghan is a Learning Technologist and an Associate Tutor for the Faculty of Education on the Undergraduate Professional Development Programme, a blended course – delivered mostly online – via our Blackboard VLE and the Collaborate web conferencing system, with some face to face conference days.  So, he can also practice what he preaches. Collaborate is…