Forum: A discussion group where people submit postings for all to read and discussion ensues. In blended learning a forum is used in numerous ways, for example: an instructor /moderator can set a topic of discussion and facilitate a person asks the instructor questions a person asks the group questions You …
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 …
CPD (continuing professional development) is the means by which members of professional associations maintain, improve and broaden their knowledge. For example; in college we offer a range of CPD sessions and workshops, the next full day of CPD sessions will take place on October 28th. For details of the sessions …
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 …
“Exploring the identity of a Learning Technologist through the analysis of language” This is a current research project conducted by Loughborough college and the University of Leicester, it will investigate what it means to be a Learning Technologist within further education- looking at identity, route into eLearning, skill-sets, expectations, …
A recent article entitled ‘We post nothing about our daughter online’ struck the eLearning team as it highlighted just how much of our private life we give up to the online world without too much of a second thought. The article gave a specific example of pictures of young children …
Podcasting: The publishing of sound files on the internet. Users can subscribe to podcasting via designated software. For example; you could make a recording of a lecture and publish it onto your learnzone page as a podcast for students to revisit as often as they wished.
Hypertext: A system for retrieving information from servers on the Internet using World Wide Web client software. Hypertext consists of key words or phrases in a WWW page that are linked electronically to other Web pages. The term was coined by pioneering engineer Ted Nelson. For example, a …
Cookie: A piece of information about your visit to a website that some websites record automatically on your computer. By using a cookie, a website operator can determine a lot of information about you and your computer. Cookies are not always bad. For example, a cookie might remember your log in …
Cyberbullies/cyberbullying: Wilful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text, typically through e-mails or on websites (e.g., blogs, social networking sites). To report any issues of cyberbullying contact the safeguarding team within the college on the number that can be found on the back of your student/staff …
