• Learning Services newsletter – spotlight on technology enhanced learning and media and ICT

    And so September and First Week planning begins….The latest edition of the Learning Services newsletter is a special issue dedicated to all those summer planning activities!

    Find out about VLE enhancements, opportunities for training & development and the latest upgrade to Blackboard.

    Articles include news to update academic colleagues both around the Blackboard upgrade and the latest development within the VLE – Blackboard Community, which some of you may already have heard about and want to introduce for your department.

    Blackboard was successfully upgraded on Monday 21st July and there are two webinars to share the enhancements and new features and these take place on the 23rd and 24th of July.  More information about the new features of Blackboard can be found in the newsletter.

    Also in the newsletter is an overview of the development of the classroom infrastructure across campus and helpful information about training and support if you are using new technology or rooms or lecture theatres you are unfamiliar with.

    We have included some future gazing with a look at augmented reality uses in education and also the Horizon 2014 report.

    Changes to technology can be very fast paced and we welcome your feedback about your experiences of using the VLE and technologies and very importantly, areas where you feel we can provide more training and opportunities for development so please get in touch.

    email [email protected]

    Phone: 01695 650754 ex 7754

    Rachel Bury

    Academic Liaison Manager – Quality, Marketing and Communication

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  • Learning Services Remembers

    LS-RemembersAs part of a series of events and activities around the commemorations for World War I, Learning Services in conjunction with Lancashire Libraries are offering staff the opportunity to read Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo.

    “Young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War”

    “Written from the heart”
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    We have a number of copies to give out to staff to read and pass on over the summer. We’re keen to receive your feedback on the book and its themes and we’ll display this as part of our autumn exhibition. The book can be collected from the Ormskirk library – just ask at the Welcome Desk.

    Learning Services

    Paul

  • Campus Pack – Improved user interface – August 2nd 2014

    Laura Page's PortfolioThe update to the Campus Pack user interface due this weekend has been rescheduled to 2nd August.

    The system is used to support things such as the Trainee Teachers’ Standards ePortfolio.

    The new user interface looks ‘cleaner’ with more white space.

    Please see this earlier blog post for details of the upgrade: Campus Pack – improved user interface.

     

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