Tutors are struggling to make Moodle learner friendly or to use the platform imaginatively. This is largely because there is no way to organise links to activities effectively: you cannot structure well (only list & indent), you cannot provide a narrative or clear instructions (labels are cumbersome, inadequate and display… Continue reading
This evening I chanced on a twitter post by Javiera Atenas (@jatenas) noting that Oxford University now have over 1,000 podcasts available for use in teaching via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open. I’ve known for some time that Oxford were building up a bank of recordings licensed for individual use, but had missed this… Continue reading
The recordings of Professor Beard’s recent open lecture are now available: The next lecture in the series, in which Malcolm Ryan reflects on 40 years of technology-enhanced learning , is being held this Wednesday evening (9th November) in QA080 on the Greenwich campus. We hope to have a recording available… Continue reading
The idea of being a critically reflective practitioner is fundamental to many professions. In some traditional taught programmes, the different theoretical and practical approaches to reflection, whether that is Kolb’s experiential learning cycle or Schon’s reflection in action is well explored. However, social networking provides us with some interesting curveballs… Continue reading
You may know that the University of Greenwich has been awarded a grant from JISC to develop strategies for digital literacies aligned to transition and graduate attribute development. As part of this we are funding studentships of £1,500 for students to work with us (and mentors) over the year to… Continue reading
Changes to the Quality Assurance handbook (QAH) now require programme teams to describe how their programmes will align with the Greenwich Graduate initiative. These changes take place from 26th September 2011. The briefing paper can been downloaded below. Greenwich Graduate Briefing Paper (May 2011) Continue reading
University staff will hopefully have seen our call for people to participate in a project exploring the use of iPads to support team working. This is one of a number of iPad projects starting up at the university and sits alongside work others are already doing to incorporate them into… Continue reading
I’ve just come across the project blog for DELILA (Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation), a project funded by JISC and the HEA. This aims to pool information literacy support materials created at the LSE and University of Birmingham, adapting these to become open educational resources (OER). These… Continue reading
The university has a new policy on New Arrivals and Transition – this can be found at: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/policy. The policy grew out of the earlier Policy Framework : The student experience of arrival, induction and orientation: a policy framework (which can also be found at the above link) – and… Continue reading
In the last of the 2010/2011 open lectures in teaching and learning, Professor David Nicol presented his experiences and thinking on feedback and peer review. Continue reading