iTeach Online Podcast: Online Learning at the University of Nottingham
October 25, 2024
Welcome back! Now that term has begun and teaching is well underway, the iTeach Online Podcast is back with five more episodes to take you to the end of 2024. We are starting this run talking about teaching online, something that has become much more relevant to many people over the last few years. However, …
Learning Technology staff in the spotlight at Welcome Week
September 30, 2024
Many thanks to today’s author, Sally Hanford, Learning Technology Consultant for Arts. University Welcome Week is an exciting time for new students. It’s their first chance to get familiar with the campus, make new friends, and connect with staff. In Learning Technology, we support students as well as staff in their use of technologies for …
Get Ready for the New Academic Year: Moodle 4.3 Resources and Drop-In Sessions
September 23, 2024
New Moodle 4.3 resources for staff and students Following the recent upgrade to Moodle 4.3, the Learning Technology team has been hard at work updating and creating new resources to support both staff and students for the upcoming academic year. We’ve developed a series of helpful guidance videos, including Introduction to Moodle for Students: Login …
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
May 16, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024, marks the 13th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities. To mark GAAD 2024, a new video has been produced on the ‘Voices of Disability’. Staff and students can access the video on …
Getting to Know Moodle 4.1
January 2, 2024
As you will now be aware, we successfully upgraded Moodle to version 4.1 in December 2023. In this post you can find out more about the new version of Moodle, the improvements and new features as well as some links to other posts on specific tools introduced in 4.1. Enhanced layout The redesigned course module …
We Are Learning Technology
December 8, 2023
The Learning Technologies Section supports students and staff with their use of learning technologies, as well as maintaining, developing and upgrading core University teaching and learning systems. We are a team of professionals, working at the crossroads of education, technology and creative media. Our role is to work with you as you create teaching resources, either on …
Accessibility Conference at the University of Nottingham
June 9, 2023
This week we asked Dr Christopher Ward, Digital Accessibility Consultant at the University of Nottingham, to provide an overview of the upcoming accessibility conference. Learning Technology at the University of Nottingham has organised a conference centred around the broad topic of digital accessibility, which will take place on Thursday, June 29th, 2023. This conference aims …
Five minutes with… Nigel Owen
January 20, 2023
Today, we are with Nigel Owen. What is your job role? I head up the Learning Technology Section and it’s my job to enable a bunch of very talented pedagogists, media specialists and technologists support the University in improving its teaching and assessment using their expertise in technology and media. I do this through listening, …
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