What a fantastic CPD week and conference! Which featured brilliant talks and hands-on sessions from both our talented staff and externals. If you didn’t make it to the Conference on Thursday or Friday you can catch up below in the YouTube Playlist. You will find recorded talks from Will Hussey, …
We live in a rapidly evolving society and economy, where change is being driven largely by technology. Standing still isn’t an option. As educators we need to adapt to and embrace new ways of teaching using technology, if we’re to prepare our learners to be successful in life and work …
Welcome to Enigma The purpose of Enigma for curriculum teams Enigma was designed to show by practice the massive impact that technology could have when used as an enabler and not as the focus. The aim of the session was to engage staff in a gamification CPD event. The event …
Whole college CPD days pose a little bit of a challenge regarding eLearning training. With potentially up to 500 staff attending, a fixed number of sessions, normal capacity computer rooms, a mixture of abilities, needs, and experiences this can all have the ability to make large scale eLearning training a …
Last week members of the eLearning team at Loughborough College attended the 4th meeting of the EastMidsLT group. This is a group linked to, and supported by, the Association of Learning Technology. This group is a thriving community of people (support staff, academic staff, and specialist technology staff) who are …
This user group was held at Aston University and was always set to be a lively one after the annual outages that happened once again just before Christmas. The CEO from America, attended the meeting, to apologise and to reassure the UK academic community that steps had been put in …
The annual FOTE conference was held on the 11th October at the Senate House in London. It is a conference that aims to showcase, highlight and discuss trends and technologies that will impact on pedagogy and education in the future. This year’s conference covered a wide range of …
Recently a member of the eLearning team was lucky enough to attend the 2013 turnitin conference at the Leeds School of Music. For those who are unfamiliar with turnitin- it is a piece of software for teaching staff that checks academic work for plagiarism, we use it here in the college to check for …
Learning Spaces Conference report This event was a half day event held at the University of Nottingham and collaboratively facilitated between the London Knowledge Lab, the Open University and the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham. There were many insular themes at the conference but the most …
#capitaconf Child protection in the Digital Environment Conference report 23rd September 2013 Manchester This years conference was opened by Susie Hargreaves, the chief executive for the Internet Watch Foundation, she set the context and tone in which the following discussion of esafety would play out. The current trends in young people’s …
