• Shifting portfolios online

    Shifting portfolios online

    How a ‘spark’ during a staff development session led to a fully ‘on-line’ portfolio for all PCET trainees. Lindsey Marsh (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education) attended an early Campus Pack training session.  During that session she realised that the wiki technology  offered the potential to significantly improve trainees’ portfolios.  This post is based on an…

  • What’s on the Menu?

    This morning we’ve implemented a couple of features to the side menu of our blog.  The additions should make it easier for you to connect to our social media pages and to keep yourself up to date with any happenings on Learning Edge. Organised around two areas (see picture below) we have implemented a ‘Social…

  • A collaborative experience that engages everyone, every time, everywhere

    It is now possible to engage with your students wherever they are. Keep them engaged offering them collaborative and interactive activities and a learning experience. This can be done all through the new platform Blackboard Collaborate. It allows you to create virtual classrooms to deliver presentations, show videos, show websites, communicate synchronously in real time,…

  • New year – Why not develop your skills in using technology?

    The Learning Services staff development programme – Developing Digital Excellence begins again in January. We have got a wide range of sessions covering all 4 strands of the programme which will support staff across the university in their use of technology and hopefully enhance their knowledge and skills – and maybe learn something brand new.…

  • Can someone explain what’s going on here?

    The 5th EHU Student eLearning survey still has just over a week or so left to run but I thought  I’d share with you an interesting and unusual finding from the large number of responses we have received so far. In the survey we ask students to respond to the statements On/off campus I sometimes…

  • Viva Las Vegas…The 2013 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program is now open!

    Have you got a well-designed Blackboard module area that you’d like to gain recognition for? Since its launch in 2000, Blackboard opens its Exemplary Course Program (ECP) each year.  The aim is to support the use of e-Learning technology more effectively by identifying and disseminating best practices for designing engaging online courses. Using Blackboard’s rubric,…

  • eShare – staff development

    What is eShare? Why do we have it? How can it benefit me? Come along on Wednesday 16th January for an introduction to our digital repository for teaching and learning and see how you can make the most of eShare. eShare offers you the opportunity to showcase your work to the world, store presentations, videos…

  • My Wiki and other Animals by Christopher Russell.

    My Wiki and other Animals by Christopher Russell.

    This is the first in a series of blog posts that will showcase exemplary Technology Enhanced Learning practices taking place at Edge Hill. Christopher Russell (Senior Lecturer in Primary Education) gives us an engaging account of how he used blogs and wikis to deepen the learning experience of his trainees – with quotes from students…

  • Where’s the subscribe button gone?

                  Blackboard 9.1 Discussion Board Forum – Subscription Button You may or may not have noticed that the Subscribe button has recently taken a break from its duties. Well you’ll be happy to know you can fix this! In Control Panel open customisation and click on Tool Availability.         Within…

  • Blackboard Mobile and Clinical Education

    I was recently asked to present on how the Clinical Education programme uses Blackboard Mobile to deliver their blended learning courses to students.  Unfortunately I couldn’t be there on the day – so I made a video to demonstrate instead. The video demonstrates how the Clinical Education programme organises it’s Blackboard course to be mobile…