What do we mean by accessibility? When we develop content in any digital format we must fundamentally address the need for it to be designed and developed to work for all learners, whatever their hardware, software, language, location, or ability. When we meet this goal, it is accessible to people …
PebblePad is an ePortfolio tool that works brilliantly for ongoing student portfolios. Staff are able to create template portfolios or encourage learners to build their own. PebblePad is widely used in the medical and sport sectors, as well as by many universities. But what do our students think? Aimee Skinner …
The launch of the Loughborough College eSafety course in February 2014 saw over 500 students complete the course in its first month with a number of those achieving their gold badge. After releasing the course as an open resource, over 100 colleges have now downloaded it to date – including …
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 …
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 …
We recently posted our stats of how many students had completed our new esafety resources. Previous stats showed that 154 students had got involved with 115 gaining the Silver badge and 11 gaining the Gold badge after completing all the resources on the LearnZone page. However, as of today those …
As you may know, the eSafety resource went live yesterday, just in time for the National Safer Internet day campaign today! As part of the day, students were asked to get involved in the Safer Internet Day quiz, via the stands in A and B block. So far, 154 students have got …
