According to the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the custodian of the worlds biggest online encyclopaedia, the first major casualty of the online learning revolution will be the “boring” university lecture. This is unless universities respond to the rising tide of online courses (MOOCs) as new major players emerge to …
The first of our Special Interest Groups (SIGs) was held on 19th February between 12:30-1:30. The topic that was being discussed was Flipped Learning. Thank you for all those who attended the first SIG, I hope that you found it interesting and useful – I know I did! It was …
Adobe Connect is a webconferencing tool that can be used to faciliate synchronous online sessions. It can be used to hold online meetings and teaching and learning sessions. There are other tools available that do a similar job but this project focuses solely on Adobe Connect. The table below shows some …
Google Drive is an online word processor, slide show, spreadsheet, form and storage service provided by Google. Documents can be created or uploaded, stored securely and shared, and edited online while collaborating in real-time with other Google Drive users. An excellent overview of Google Drive can be seen in this …
Moodle is an open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a tool which manages and promotes learning, through the creation of online learning sites. This project focused on some of the tools within Moodle which can be used to communicate with learners and facilitate communication between them including; RSS feeds …
