Matt Styles on Moodle
June 13, 2013
Matt Styles: “Ever thought that using wikis on Moodle could be beneficial to students’ learning? How about discussion forums to encourage flexible debate involving rich media and e-references? Should there be baseline material requirements or is that treating Moodle too much like a file store? Unfortunately, we don’t yet have the answers. “The Students’ Union …
Sustainability in and through curriculum
April 11, 2013
Video >> Dr Sarah Speight: “Nottingham is currently running a ‘NOOC’ (Nottingham Open Online Course) called ‘Perspectives on Sustainability’. This is an interdisciplinary course that can be taken for credit towards the Nottingham Advantage Award. It developed from an externally-funded project to develop open educational resources on specific disciplines: Geography, Engineering, Arts and Humanities and …
Are you using Moodle? Can I help you?
April 26, 2012
Prof. Reg Dennick: “It is refreshing to be accosted in this way at a conference but the desire to help and facilitate was a theme that ran through the one day “Assessment in the Digital Age” conference. From the opening plenary lecture describing how a whole university institution can manage major assessment change to the …
Recording feedback as a podcast and uploading it to WebCT
October 16, 2009
Video >> Interviewer: “How long will the podcast be?” Sarah Westwater-Wood: “In general they’re four to five minutes. I find that technically WebCT supports that really well and it’s a bitesize for students so they can take it shape their revision with it and it’s not a lecture the podcast is not being used to …
Giving feedback on practical sessions via a podcast
June 10, 2009
Video >> Sarah Westwater-Wood: “In the Therapeutics Studies module I teach three groups the same thing every week and they’re two hour long lectures and it’s quite intensive delivery of manual skills and underpinning knowledge. When I finish the week’s practical sessions I realise that there are common things that I want to feed back …
ePioneers project: standardising WebCT materials
June 9, 2008
Video >> Matthew Nilan: “I think the project was a project related to one of the PGCE courses, and Paul Thompson, I think, was keen on developing a template based approach to developing e-learning materials. “And his mentor was actually Gordon, but I became involved when – because I’d been experimenting with this software called …
Introducing podcasting and WebCT: implications for dyslexic students
June 26, 2007
Video >> Richard: “It’s the second year of Biogeography teaching that I’ve been doing now for 6 years, and the lectures, like most lectures, they change a bit. But the core of them stays much the same, and to be quite frank I was getting a little bit bored of saying the same sorts of …
Planning module content: mind-mapping, podcasting and WebCT (now Moodle)
Video >> Richard Field, Geography: “I actually planned it out, and I wanted to deliver it via what we call mind maps. Our first years have a series of lectures called study skills, or series of sessions called study skills given by a colleague of mine, and we talk quite a lot about teaching with …
Learning from lectures: a dyslexic student’s view
June 18, 2007
Video >> Kate: “Are there any teaching and learning strategies that some of your tutors may adopt that are particularly supportive of your study?” Annie Evans, student, Archaeology: “The thing I’ve found really useful is we have one lecturer who just puts everything on WebCT (now Moodle), like seminar reading lists…absolutely everything, journals…and then its …
Using a discussion board to support Maths students
Video >> Kate: “I understand that you’ve been using WebCT (now Moodle) a little bit last year and the feature you’re particularly wanting to use was the discussion boards. How’s that worked for you?” Joel Feinstein, Mathematical Sciences: “That’s right, yes. I wanted the students to be able to ask questions of each other, of …
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