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Too good to ignore!
Users of Learning Edge! We have an exciting new addition to the family! Ok, so it might not be the most exciting thing for some, but we will shortly be switching on a fantastic new tool within Learning Edge to help make your academic communication easier between staff and students. Qwickly is a tool used…
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Technologies are an “absolute lifeline” for our students!
Blackboard Collaborate and discussion forums help build community and meet students’ emotional and learning needs. Readers of this Learning Edge blog will be familiar with our Best of TEL series, where we invite colleagues from across the university to guest author posts about their practice, to inform and inspire others. This post has a guest…
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Engaging learners with Blackboard Collaborate
How the Inclusion Team is using our web conferencing platform to engage students, enhance communication and improve outcomes. Anne McLoughlin is the leader of Edge Hill’s dyslexia programme. The programme is a blended course – mostly online – delivered via our Blackboard VLE and the Collaborate web conferencing system, with some face to face conference days.…
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Collaborating all over the world
Using Blackboard Collaborate to support students based outside the UK Pam Nicol has a number of roles at the University – this posting involves her work on the Masters in International Higher Education. Pam has been using Collaborate since it was introduced to the MIHE team about four years ago, and previously to that used…
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Screencasting Formative Feedback
How one tutor increased students’ engagement with feedback. In this video blog post Carl Simmons explains why assessment is so problematic and suggests how tutors can increase the amount of useful information that students receive using screen and voice recording software. The issues are: Good quality feedback consumes significant tutor resource; Students tend not to…
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LTD Hot Desks
Come along to the LTD office to use our Hot Desk PCs. The Hot Desk PCs have dual screen monitors for working with Blackboard and creating graphic, audio and video materials for teaching and learning. They are loaded with teaching and learning software such as iSpring and Camtasia, and have high quality microphones and headphones. We also…
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Alas Prescott and Ellis
… it’s a bit like having a tutorial with you … An initial request to create an online session for the PG Cert in HE has resulted in a wealth of video resources ranging from academic writing to change management and leadership that are now used across a number of programmes in the Faculty of…
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A Tidal Wave of Discussion …
How active discussion produced outstanding* results. By David Callaghan Online discussion forums are widely-used in online and blended courses at Edge Hill and increasingly course teams have been exploiting the benefits of these asynchronous online communication tools to support their face-to-face students’ learning. When used effectively, discussion forums have been found to support reflection, deep thinking,…
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How Blackboard Blogs put a “Wow” factor into an epidemiology lecture …
… creating a student generated resource that is used during the session and as a reference. Laura Taylor, Senior Lecturer and Senior SOLSTICE Fellow within the Faculty of Health and Social Care describes how she has used Blackboard Blogs to transform a set of statistics into an engaging learning activity for students AND, almost as a ‘by product’…
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Has Video Thrilled the Students so Far?
How video has been used to enhance engagement and the student learning experience on a blended learning programme The Mathematics Specialist Teacher (MaST) Programme is a blended course for serving primary maths teachers aimed at improving subject knowledge, pedagogy and collaborating with colleagues in school. It includes Conference Days with nationally recognised speakers, Local Meetings led…
