Moodle Everywhere: a new lecturer’s angle
January 13, 2014
Simon Harrison: “How are you using Moodle this semester? “As a new lecturer here, I’m experimenting in two different ways. “For my undergraduate module, I post preparatory slides ahead of time that I design to either guide students through the assigned reading or to offer a preview of the slides I’ll use in class. After …
Making Moodle work for…
December 3, 2013
… cross-campus teaching “We have a single Moodle page which, after ironing out some problems, is now shared between the UK and Malaysia campus. This includes a weekly video, with a quiz that students have to complete before they can go on to the next one, and also a set of discussion forums which can …
Lectures, Laptops, and Learning
November 26, 2013
“The beauty of YouTube is that it’s … chock-full of fantastic educational content for students and teachers alike to access and learn from.” Dr Philip Moriarty: “That quote is taken from a short blog post entitled “Serve up Some YouTube EDU This Summer” (which I stumbled across just as the summer was ending). “As someone …
The Sustainability ‘NOOC’: learning from a multi-disciplinary online course
November 25, 2013
Dr Sarah Speight: “In spring 2013, I led a pilot project to foster a sense of community amongst students and staff across our three campuses through learning together. Working with Learning Technologist Helen Whitehead, we constructed the first ‘NOOC’ or Nottingham Open Online Course, called ‘Perspectives on Sustainability’. “Helen and I came to the project …
Using Pencasts to create online learning objects
November 8, 2013
Video >> Gail Hopkins: “Computer Science is a technical subject, some areas of which can be challenging for students to grasp. Additionally the subject is such that it is important to grasp earlier concepts before moving on to more complex ideas. Therefore it is especially important that students understand concepts in a timely manner and …
Students on placement: supporting learning with a Mahara portfolio
September 2, 2013
Judith Wayte: “Don’t ask what the technology can do for you, rather what the pedagogy needs – Gilly Salmon; Professor of e-learning and learning technologies, University of Leicester” “Say at the outset – it’s just a piece of software” “I first used the first of these quotes when giving a presentation at the Assessment in …
Blended learning approaches to teaching computer science to a diverse audience
August 22, 2013
Gail Hopkins: The Context “The School of Computer Science offers several MSc courses of which the MSc in Information Technology and the MSc in Management of Information Technology are the most popular. These two MSc courses are taken by students from a range of nationalities including UK and non-EU overseas students. As such some students …
Using online portfolios to facilitate feedback, provide evidence of progress and encourage the development of academic skills’
August 14, 2013
David Button: Context: “CELE is an international centre based on three campuses, the UK, Malaysia and China. In the UK CELE run 4 terms of Pre-session English for Academic Purposes courses taking students at 4 levels of English competence. Students are a mixture of undergraduates and postgraduates. All 400+ students will be using an e-portfolio …
Supporting face-to-face collaborative learning using a Mahara group blog
July 26, 2013
Gordon Joyes: The context: “The MA in Learning, Technology and Education is a course designed for professionals involved with learning technologies. This is currently a f2f course but will have an online version in July 2013. Moodle VLE is used, but a range of other technologies are used to enhance the learning experience but also …
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 …
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