I’m writing a couple of weeks after I had the pleasure of attending the OER16: Open Culture conference. This particular conference has been on my mind a great deal longer than most as I volunteered to take part on the conference committee back in August 2015. When I found out that this was to be […]
Last year I had the privilege of being a student on the Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning (IDEL) course which is the foundation course for the MSC in Digital Education. This was funded by a the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) who as part of their support for the Online Distance Learning (ODL) community […]
I did not just accidentally hit the caps lock key; that beautiful hieroglyph CAIeRO is part of the NILE-CAIeRO set from the University of Northampton. The business of learning design is not a shadowy dark art, as the mythical sounding name for the workshop suggests, but a transparent, openly shared method, beginning with demystification (when you’re […]
The past couple of weeks have been pretty significant in terms of the development of open education at the University of Edinburgh. On the 4th of February we launched Open.Ed, a website devoted to showcasing OERs at the University. In the week prior to that an OER policy was approved by the Learning and Teaching […]
On the 7th of January 2016, I had the privilege to present at the Durham Blackboard User Group Conference about our use of Collaborate 12.6 along with discussing our pilots of Collaborate Ultra at the University. Before attending, I had heard many wonderful things about this conference and was looking forward to seeing what my […]
I love hearing about what people want to do in their academic practice and figuring out how technology could make that happen for them. That’s much more important to me than explaining all the things that a tool can do in detail. At the moment, my focus is on helping people to use PebblePad in […]
Having returned from the EDUlearn conference in Barcelona in early July 2015, I’ve now managed to re-acclimatize to the Scottish weather and to clear out most of my hundreds of emails. The moment is right therefore to try and capture a few reflections of my own, both on the conference, and on the Adaptive Learning […]
My name is Fraser, I’m 22 years old and originally from Aberdeenshire. I am currently going into 4th year of Computer Science with the School of Informatics and although I don’t have plans to immediately go into the computing industry once I graduate, my degree is valuable enough to allow me to venture into my […]
The Educational Design & Engagement team and Digital Learning Application & Media team within Information Services ran the first ever Collaborate User Survey 2015 in March 2015. This survey (which was created through Bristol Online Survey) was sent out to staff that we know use Collaborate using two relevant mailing lists which reach approximately 320 […]
In February this year I organised the first GeoLocation in Learning and Teaching Event as part of the Social and Cloud based Learning and Teaching Service and was pleasantly surprised at the level of interest and enthusiasm. You can read all about this session in the accompanying blog post. I was very pleased when Owen […]
