• 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…

  • 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…

  • Have you used the Inclusive Digital Practices Toolkit?

    Learning Services have created the toolkit to support academic staff in the creation of accessible Digital Content. The toolkit includes quick tips, a checklist, user guides and some video case studies that showcase how teaching staff are using Digital Technology to support their students. We are submitting the toolkit for the Blackboard Catalyst Award for…

  • 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…

  • 360 Degrees of Learning Potential!

    Just recently we acquired the Giroptic 360cam to explore the potential of 360 cameras and how they might be used in HE to help enhance the student learning experience. Even within the first week of getting to grips with the camera we had already identified many possibilities in which it could impact and enhance teaching…

  • 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…

  • Qwickly Attendance: Call for Early Adopters

    It was only a few months back when we introduced the new update for Qwickly Attendance (online Register System) to our 2016 Learning Edge Summer Upgrade. Many of you attended the staff development sessions we delivered back in August and the feedback we’ve received about the new features has been superb . Though many of you…

  • Digital Productivity for Health & Social Care Staff

    This month the Faculty of Health & Social Care (FoHSC) – with the added support of their Senior SOLSTICE Fellow (Laura Taylor) – introduced a brand new resource to provide its staff with the latest in e-learning tools and resources to help deliver ‘technology enhanced learning’ to its students. The Digital Productivity Lab is a quiet work…

  • Introducing Qwickly Attendance: A Whole New Way to Create and Manage Online Registers

    We know that online attendance management for Blackboard Learn has been on your radar recently. We’re very happy to announce this week a new reliable, secure and efficient online attendance platform that ticks the box (literally). Let me introduce, ‘Qwickly Attendance’.  Qwickly will enable all staff to easily record/track (and grade – optional) student attendance in…

  • 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…