Reflections on Digifest 2025 – Part 3
March 21, 2025
In the third of a series of blog posts, Learning Technology Consultant Dave Corbett shares his reflections of attending JISC DigiFest 2025, discussing day two of the event in Birmingham. —- Following on from Sally’s post about DigiFest 25, I wanted to share some of my highlights from the event. DigiFest 25 was hosted on …
Digifest 2025 Day 2: Strategic Foresight
March 18, 2025
In the second of a series of blog posts, Learning Technology Consultant Sally Hanford reflects on experiences of attending JISC DigiFest 2025, discussing day two of the event in Birmingham. There will also be reflections from Day two in a following post, and thoughts from Learning Technology Consultant Dave Corbett who also attended DigiFest 2025 …
Exploring Playful Learning at Teachfest SB: Gamifying Education with Associate Professor Roger Saunders
January 6, 2025
As the end of 2024 drew near, Learning Technology colleagues were pleased to again be part of Teachfest SB (Sutton Bonington), an event that, each year, sparks creativity and provides new insights into teaching and learning. This year’s Teachfest was no exception. One of the highlights of the event was the thought-provoking keynote delivered by …
Facing the Future of Teaching in Higher Education
July 21, 2023
The Learning Technology Team recently had the pleasure of supporting Teachfest (University Park), and the theme for this year was ‘Facing the Future of Teaching in Higher Education’. The Teachfest events have an informal atmosphere and provide opportunities for educators to share their practices, discuss and reflect on teaching and learning experiences, and exchange ideas in …
How do we implement Digital Accessibility?
June 27, 2023
One of our keynote speakers at the Digital Accessibility conference on 29th June is Alistair McNaught. Alistair has been supporting HE and FE (and other) organisations on improving accessibility for many years. He was a keynote speaker at the University’s Teaching and Learning Conference in 2022 where he spoke about the habits of highly accessible …
Creating audio and podcasts
April 3, 2023
I got some really good tips on creating audio and podcasts in education, from the recent Future Teacher webinar focusing on audio. Speakers included Andrew McLaren. Edinburgh Napier, Sheila MacNeill, Jane Secker, and Mark Childs. Here are, with thanks, some of their tips. The preparation time needed (at least at first) means it can be …
National Accessibility Conference: Call for Expressions of Interest
March 29, 2023
The University of Nottingham is planning on hosting a conference in the summer on the broad theme of digital accessibility. We’d like to create an opportunity for those of us involved in this area to come together to share experiences. We are working through our own digital accessibility programme at the moment, and we know …
Hybrid Teaching – a year on
January 31, 2023
A lot can happen in a year! It does not seem that long ago that we hosted the workshop ‘Hybrid Teaching and Learning in HE: a futuristic model or a realistic model for the future’ that was attended by more than 150 staff across the sector. That was actually 12th January 2022 and (as with …
Help available from Learning Technology: Advent Calendar #23
December 23, 2022
Here are some sources of help to staff (and some for students) The Moodle Help website (on Workspace) is comprehensive and searchable Try one of our training courses: Training Schedule There are also a number of Faculty resources including Arts, Social Sciences, Engineering, FMHS, Science Get support from a live person: there are regular live drop-ins in A09 Coates (for Engineering) and in …
Webinars relating to digital learning: Advent Calendar #20
December 20, 2022
One benefit of the pandemic is that webinars became a routine part of professional development. I particularly like series of webinars which cover a variety of topics in learning technology and Higher Education. Here are some series of webinars that others might find useful. The University of Kent’s Digitally Enhanced Education webinars With contributors from …
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