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Come and join us for a Nepal Earthquake Mapathon!
Thursday 14th May 12-2 pm E10 Monday 18th May 12-2 pm E4 Saddend by the suffering in Nepal, and inspired by stories of ‘crisis mapping’ – where volunteers all over the world are helping to digitise satellite imagery to provide maps and data that can be used by rescuers and aid groups on the ground,…
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Isn’t it about time you found out what all the Collaborate fuss was, used the right tool to mark your assignments and learnt what your students really think about in class?
This post is all about Staff Development in May During May, through the Digital Practitioner strand of the Developing Digital Excellence staff development programme, Learning Technology Development (LTD) are offing a range of sessions which can show you how to achieve all this, and more! For full session descriptions and to book on a session, click on the appropriate title: …
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iSpring: Video Case Study 2 of 3
iSpring Early Adopters Project: Video Case Study 2 In the Learning Technology Development team we’ve recently completed the early adopters’ project in the use of iSpring. Following on from Sertip in last month’s case study, we would now like to introduce Maggie Webster from the Faculty of Education. Maggie shares her experience in the iSpring…
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Ever wanted to flip your classroom, teach students across the world or just sort out a space for your own learning?
During April, through the Digital Practitioner strand of the Developing Digital Excellence staff development programme, Learning Technology Development (LTD) are offing a range of sessions which can show you how. For full session descriptions and to book on a session, click on the appropriate title Flipping Content – Learn how to make Screen and Pod…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Your Digital Tattoo: What the web says about you! – For Staff
Is how you present yourselves online important? When people search for information about you what might they find, and how does that affect your reputation and employability? How can you take control of what people can find about you online? Over the last few years we’ve spoken with hundreds of Edge Hill students about issues…
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New Bristol Online Surveys (BOS) is coming this February 2015
The new version of BOS is coming this February 2015. Please refer to my earlier blog to catch up on the new and enhanced features which are coming with the upgrade: http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/learningedge/?p=3721 The migration dates are confirmed as follows: Wednesday 25th February & Thursday 26th February 2015. Please note – there will be no access to…
