This area hightlights up and coming events and any other relevant new information that may be relevant to you within your every day teaching
Heard of Quizlet? If not, quickly visit the current king of flashcards, mini tests and matching games and come back. Quizlet has added a new feature to their flashcard sets called diagrams. You can now create labelled diagrams for learners to test themselves on (or get them to create there …
We are proud to say we are currently involved in an exciting, international CPD project aimed at teachers in the Vocational and Educational sectors. Funded by the UFI charitable Trust, a consortium of educational establishments, led by the University of Leeds and the Institute of Education, are developing a Massive …
In order to keep our systems up-to-date and functioning efficiently we are committed to updating our systems regularly, at set predefined points, throughout the academic year. The schedule for updates, patches and fixed for the next academic year are as follows: Major release updates: LearnZone, StaffZone,HE, Test: 25/07/2014 and then …
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 …
The team have been busy over the last few months designing, creating and developing an online resource specifically to help Higher Education students develop the study skills they need to succeed on their course.
Lecture capture has arrived! The eLearning team have just launched a project to embed Lecture Capture pilots across all departments. More information on the projects and outcomes to follow…. Lecture capture is a system which records a video of the tutor whilst also recording anything that is …
If you would like to have a go at a really clever Christmas quiz from the mind of Matt in the eLearning team, follow this link: http://goo.gl/UFv24w Merry Christmas!!
A survey by IT firm Logicalis says that teenagers now own 6 digital devices and some 28% of the 1,004 13- to 17-year-olds questioned feel ICT is key to their future career. The research, was originally designed to establish the “digital footprint” of teenagers today, its recently published suggests that young …
The annual conference for the Association of Learning Technology was held this year at the University of Nottingham. Rachel Wenstone, the NUS Vice President gave the first key note and spoke about student expectations and partnerships and for the first year, there was a dedicated day for Further Education with …
Important information about Youtube We have received a few emails over the past few days regarding embedding Youtube videos into Powerpoint presentations. There has been a few issues with the embed codes and Youtube videos are not playing- despite appearing, usually as a black box, within the Powerpoint slide. To clear this …
