David Hopkins’ latest blog post (Not read them? You really should!) has some fabulous ideas for using in-class voting systems for peer instruction. David’s twist on the voting systems goes beyond a traditional yes / no question type and involves students’ helping each other. Embedding peer interaction between the pre …
The eLearning team at Loughborough College are proud to announce their first Technology Celebration Day! Book your sessions for the afternoon via this link. Be prepared for a fun filled day at the fair on the 17th October. The event will take place in The Hub, so come along and …
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 …
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 …
After much stumbling across the internet for resources on using social media in the classroom, I came across this blog which explains the reasons for ‘doing’ social media in the classroom. This concise guide (with relatively little use of jargon- which is surprising in any written passage relating to technology) …
