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Five Updates that Improve Blackboard Collaborate for You
Blackboard Collaborate has seen a lot of updates over the past year. Here are five improvements you might be interested in. 1. Breakout Rooms can be populated using Blackboard groups Many of us have wanted to set up groups before a session starts and now you can. Create group sets in Blackboard at any time…
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How can YOU use LinkedIn Learning?
All staff and students at Edge Hill University have access to LinkedIn Learning. It is a library of training courses that you can use to help you develop business, technology, and creative skills. How can I get started? There is a LinkedIn Learning page on the Edge Hill University website containing videos that will show…
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Six Things You Can Do with Box of Broadcasts and TRILT
Edge Hill University provides staff and students with access to the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) on demand TV and Radio broadcast service, and The Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT). Here are six things you can do with these services. One: Access Old Recordings from the BBC’s Digital Archive The BBC is…
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Accessing LinkedIn Learning
We are excited to announce that the LinkedIn Learning video course library is now available to all students and staff. The courses on LinkedIn Learning cover many things, including using a wide range of software, and personal development skills like leadership and communication. An easy way to get an account set up is to go…
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Lynda.com is Becoming LinkedIn Learning
Many of you have used the Lynda.com video library to help you learn how to use new software, or perhaps to help you develop other skills. You might also know that Lynda.com is owned by LinkedIn, who have been developing LinkedIn Learning as a new place to access the video courses. Edge Hill University will…
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Playful Learning Conference 2017
I was fortunate enough to attend the Playful Learning conference over the summer. We explored how playfulness can be included in adults’ learning experiences, which involved things such as playing games that were being used in Higher Education, making things, and experiencing escape rooms. We were all given cuddly toys with which we were to…
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Getting Your New Course Ready: Three Things to Remember
Many of you will be getting your Learning Edge courses ready for the 2017-18 academic year, so here are three things to hep you. 1. Don’t copy Turnitin dropboxes The Blackboard ‘Course Copy’ tool can be used to copy a whole course over, but we’d recommend that you take a moment to consider what you…
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68 Things to Help You Find and Use TV and Radio Broadcasts
I don’t know if any of you have wanted to share broadcast materials with students. When I started working at Edge Hill the only legal way to do this was to get in touch with Jim in Learning Services, who would record the programme and put it on a VHS tape for you to show…
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Learning Technology Highlights: October 2016
All Edge Hill University staff now have access to the Lynda.com video training library. You can use it to help you develop your skills in areas as diverse as music, social media marketing, animation and Office 2013. This resource would cost you over £300 per year if you paid yourself, so it is well worth…
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NMC Horizon Report – 2016 Higher Education Edition
The NMC’s Horizon Report Higher Education Edition aims to identify emerging technologies that a panel of experts think will impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in Higher Education over the next five years, along with key trends accelerating adoption, and challenges impeding that. There is a project wiki which allows exploration the creation of…