Professor Alan Ford: Strategy 2020 and the Teaching and Learning Agenda
March 11, 2015
Strategy 2020 has set out a clear vision for the university as an inspiring place of learning. Amongst the core principles underpinning this vision are commitments to “put students at the heart of the University” and to “value all staff and support them to excel”. Congratulations to those 30+ colleagues who have recently gained Senior Fellow and …
Taking ownership: building School e-learning capacity
June 9, 2008
Video >> Brett Bligh: “It’s almost as though you start off with a very strict project structure, and then what you’re really doing is creating a culture whereby people are more anxious to learn in general, and you start getting approached from all sorts of directions.” Tony Fisher: “One of the things that we wanted …
ePioneers project: vodcasting – videoing lectures
Video >> Rolf Wiesemes: “I guess I was thinking about video podcasting and podcasting before the ePioneers project started, and I – at some point just before that, I was looking at the website of some American Universities, MIT and Harvard in particular, I think, where quite a few of their teaching materials and talks, …
Quick gains in e-learning
June 5, 2008
Video >> Gordon Joyes: “What we were after were quick wins. We wanted people to come up with projects within the ePioneers programme that were things that were achievable, that they knew they could do within that academic year or sooner.” Mike Sharples: “So, rather than having long-term projects that may take years to mature, …
ePioneers: a quick outline
Video >> Tony Fisher: “We knew we’d got our innovators in the School. This is the very early part of the take-up of anything, and we knew we’d got some early adopters. What we hadn’t done was, we hadn’t moved e-learning into the majority phase of adoption.” Gordon Joyes: “We began looking at how you …
Building an online community: a critique
June 2, 2008
Mike Sharples: “We set up, right from the beginning, an intranet, using a SharePoint server, that provided, for each project, a space where you could develop the project through gathering in material that was useful to it, and also having a blog that acted as both a, kind of personal and group diary of how …
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