Reviewing the Gowers Review – panel presentations followed by discussion
Toby Bainton, Secretary, SCONUL Andrew Yeates, General Counsel, ERA Sarah Fahmy, Strategic Content Alliance, JISC Murray Weston, CHief Executive BUFVC The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property is an...
View ArticleHigher Education Academy Conference 2010
I’m in Hatfield in Hertfordshire today and tomorrow for the HEA Conference 2010. Over the next two days I’ll be your roving reporter on a number of eLearning-related presentations, as well as a few...
View ArticleOpen educational resources: the future of sharing
Stream Future Partners & Policy Abstract The Skills for Scientists project took practitioners with pre-existing teaching resources and supported them through the process of making those materials...
View ArticleManaging the quality of e-learning: a consultation on the QAA Code of...
Stream Future Partners & Policy Abstract The session will present findings of a consultation process regarding quality assurance and enhancement of technology-enhanced learning (TEL). We plan to...
View ArticleIs the current form of higher education in the UK viable? Developing a...
Stream N/A Abstract In a future of climate change, energy depletion and low or no economic growth, what will higher education look like? Will our institutions and the current form of educational...
View ArticleSWIFT: Second World Immersive Future Teaching
Stream Future Learning Abstract We describe work to develop and evaluate immersive learning activities for undergraduate students using Second Life. Such activities will enhance the effectiveness of...
View ArticleCommunities of practice and learning? Making connections through social media...
Stream Future Students Abstract Students’ use of microblogging service Twitter suggests interesting potential for them to make valuable connections with professional practitioners in their field, and...
View ArticlePublish and be damned? Real issues of copyright and IPR when publishing open...
Stream Future Partners & Policy Abstract Publishing teaching and learning content openly raises risks of copyright and IPR infringement. How can practitioners understand and manage the risks? The...
View ArticleMaximizing the potential of nomadic devices to increase the effectiveness of...
Stream Future Staff Abstract MIMAS is well established in the provision of learning content to nomadic devices. We will discuss how nomadic technology will utterly transform learning, examine how...
View ArticleDevelopments in copyright licensing
Stream N/A Abstract The CLA higher education license enables HEIs to provide greater access to copyright materials than would otherwise be possible. Photocopying and scanning from printed books,...
View ArticleMahara Hui UK 2015
I recently attended my second Mahara Hui UK conference in Southampton on the 9th and 10th November as Mahara is the software that powers our … Read more
View ArticleUCISA Spotlight on Digital Capabilities – Conference Report
This week I attended the UCISA Spotlight on Digital Capabilities event in Birmingham. The inaugural event last year focussed primarily on supporting the digital capabilities … Read more
View Article“Not everything that can be counted counts….”
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” Attributed to Albert Einstein (1879-1955) This year’s APT conference which … Read more
View ArticleALT conference 2016 keynote speakers
2016’s conference was held between 6-8th September at the University of Warwick. The five keynote speeches are available to watch. Jane Secker: Copyright and e-learning: … Read more
View ArticleThe University of Kent joins sector-wide survey on digital capabilities
The University of Kent is taking part in the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association’s (UCISA) biennial survey into the digital capabilities of higher education … Read more
View ArticleMaharaHuiUK2016
Yes it’s that time of year again folks where the Mahara Community comes together for the annual Mahara Hui UK where we share practice and … Read more
View ArticleBETT 2017
Part of the role of a learning technologist is to venture out beyond campus in order to keep abreast of emerging technological advances and the … Read more
View ArticleMinimum standards in Technology Enhanced Learning
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the 44th Heads of E-Learning Forum (HeLF) hosted by Edinburgh Napier University. The theme for this meeting … Read more
View ArticleBETT 2020
2020. A year where many of us thought cars would hover overhead and robots and artificial intelligence would reign supreme. Well, we were half right … Read more
View ArticleBett 2020 part two – No ‘I’ in Teams
In part two of our coverage of BETT 2020, Steve Ganfield explores the possibilities of using Microsoft Teams to facilitate student and researcher collaboration. With … Read more
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