On Monday, the whole team headed to Birmingham for day 1 of the free conference #DigiFest15. The festival was designed to celebrate innovative use of learning technology, and instead of being a threat to existing classroom based practice, how it could be used to combat barriers, engage students and …
There will be a planned downtime period for Turnitin Service on Saturday 7/03/15 between 3pm to 7pm. Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period.
PACKT Publishing are treating us all to free eBooks on different areas of technologies! They are available here, but hurry, as each one is only available for 24 hours. After that the offer is over and you will have to purchase the resource at full price. Each eBook can be …
The eLearning team support staff engaging with different technologies and projects. In order to share the work our tutors do, we have created a number of case studies [which you can see here] to show the project, process and the impact it has had on students and learning. We have …
Ever wondered what educational technology is or what a learning technologist does? David Hopkins has been pondering this for a little while and has brought together a whole bunch of wonderful people (see below) who have a wealth of experience from many different sectors; HE, FE, Schools, Museums and Workplace …
As we are all super excited for Christmas, we thought we would share a festive technology idea you could use. Everybody loves an advent calendar, and there is nothing better than getting that little piece of chocolate every morning for 24 days, or is there? We decided to pump a …
In a flurry of pick and mix and fairground music, Loughborough College’s 1st Technology Celebration Day was launched on the 17th October 2014, by Vice Principal Yiannis Koursis. The day was intended to provide a day of informal sharing, showcase ways of how to create impact with technology, to see …
We are delighted that Lesson Plus (read about it below) has been shortlisted for a TES Awards 2015 in the category of ‘Outstanding use of Technology in FE.’ Read the press release here. You Said, We Did! LessonPlus Exciting news from the eLearning team! We have been listening …
There will be a planned downtime periond for Turnitin Service on Saturday 11/10/14 between 3pm to 5pm. Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period.
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 …
