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International Open Access Week and Community over Commercialisation – Embracing Open Access for Clinical Research
In the intersection of academia and healthcare, the principle of open access emerges as a beacon of hope, enabling the free flow of critical healthcare knowledge. This principle resonates profoundly with the upcoming International Open Access Week, scheduled from the 23 to the 29 of October. The week seeks to emphasise the importance of community-centric…
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Participating in the Virtual Classroom at Edge Hill University
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is the virtual classroom platform for the institution. It can be used via a web browser on a computer or an app on a phone or tablet. The tool is available within every Blackboard course at Edge Hill University. Each online classroom contains web conferencing tools that will allow you to perform…
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Learning at Work Week – Impact Awards 2019
We are very pleased to announce that in the Learning at Work Week Impact Awards 2019 we have won in two categories ‘Shaping Digital Futures’ and ‘Innovation in Learning & Development’! Learning at Work Week took place in May and provided staff in Catalyst with an opportunity to not only get to know each other…
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Staff Development in January
Make the most of the new year and any new devices you might have got as a Christmas gift, and come along to one of our Developing Digital Excellence staff sessions. In January we have sessions running within the Digital Practitioner strand which will focus on getting the most from your mobile device and the digital…
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Developing Digital Excellence in December – come a long for a coffee and a mince pie
As semester 1 draws to close there are a number of opportunities for staff development and maybe reflect on some of the success of the term around using the VLE and share those with us and colleagues or you might be thinking about what you can do differently next year. The sessions within our Digital…
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Learning how to share
Staff Development: eShare: Making the most of your Digital Repository What is eShare? Why do we have it? How can it benefit me? Come along 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…
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Developing Digital Excellence
As term begins we wanted to take this opportunity to let staff know about the skills and development opportunities Learning Services are providing as part of our Developing Digital Excellence programme. This is the second year we have created a series of workshops where we wanted to share our expertise and collaborate with staff within…
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Award Winning Leadership in Mobile Teaching and Learning!
Learning Services have been awarded a Mobile Innovation Award as part of the 2013 Blackboard Catalyst Award programme. This exciting achievement recognises the impressive growth of mobile enhanced provision and practice at Edge Hill University and specifically, Learning Services’ strategic approach to supporting all staff and students to embrace the educational affordances of mobile technology.…
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Spring clean your digital skills
Staff Development Programme – Developing Digital Excellence Calling all staff, dust off your keyboard (sorry maybe taking the spring cleaning pun too far..) Staff from across Learning Services are delivering sessions this month around a number of themes. There are three sessions from our Digital Practitioner series – maybe you might want to start with…
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Highlights of the Technology Road Show & Mobile Clinic
Last month Learning Services and IT Services combined forces to bring the first ever Technology Road Show & Mobile Clinic to the University. The event was hosted in the Hub, to which students and staff took the opportunity to see demonstrations of Edge Hill mobile applications, and to speak to us and obtain technical support…
