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 …
Important information about Youtube We have received a few emails over the past few days regarding embedding Youtube videos into Powerpoint presentations. There has been a few issues with the embed codes and Youtube videos are not playing- despite appearing, usually as a black box, within the Powerpoint slide. To clear this …
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 …
In December 2011, Loughborough College applied for and won an LSIS bid under the theme Improving teaching and learning through Technology. This blog aims to give an overview of the project including the intended outcomes and a short evaluation. Project need There is a need for teaching staff to make …
