Collaborate Club: New online lunchtime workshops
When it comes to staff training and development, time is one of the biggest barriers for staff attending scheduled sessions, this coupled with finding suitable rooms to set the sessions […]
Author Archives: Blayn Parkinson
Minerva Summer 2018 Upgrade
Cc: FESMs, DEALs, Blended Learning Support, Digital Education Service, OD&PL We are planning to upgrade Minerva this summer during the agreed maintenance period: Tuesday 10th July until late Wednesday 11th July* *Additionally, Thursday 12th July may […]
Jisc Digifest 2018
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/digifest Twitter #digifest18. Jisc is one of the UK’s leading edtech organisations providing support and advice mainly to the FE and HE sectors. The annual Digifest conference is […]
Important Changes to the Turnitin App
Message from the Learning Technologies Team On Tuesday 13th March, Turnitin released an update for their iPad app which has some changes regarding how you add classes from Minerva into […]
Classroom Response Systems (CRS)
Over the past few months I have seen an increased interest in Classroom Response Systems (CRS) of one type or another. Whether for pop quizzes or real-time polling, using a classroom response system can add that extra level of interactivity into your session and help engage […]
Changes to storage of Lecture Capture system content
IT services have released information regarding changes to the Lecture Capture, see the details below. Forthcoming changes to storage of Lecture Capture system content. Since its launch in 2014, the Lecture […]
[Vle-Info] Minerva Portal and VLE – Downtime
Message from the Learning Technologies Team. Minerva will be unavailable on Wednesday 24th January from 07:30 – 08:30 for essential maintenance work. The Minerva Downtime page will provide links to other key […]
SpatialOS – Simulating complex real world environments
For anyone interested in games and simulations, especially dealing with potentially massive amounts of data a system called SpatialOS by the software developer Improbable SpatialOS is a distributed computing platform […]
Matching how we teach to how we learn (TEDx presentation)
Visual feast of the mind: matching how we teach to how we learn An interesting TEDx presentation looking at the discrepancy between the way we teach and the way we learn. […]
New FutureLearn MOOC: Inclusive Learning and Teaching Environments
For those of us that teach there is a new FutureLearn MOOC developed by the University of Southampton which looks at inclusive teaching and learning. It explores the barriers that […]
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