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Taking the online survey to the student.
How FM and LTD used tablet technologies for a student survey. In December Facilities Management wanted to know more about how students were using the HUB, and more specifically, the food services...
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Emerging Technologies Session: Coming of Age – Professionalising the Blog
Do you have an image and message you need to get out to a wider audience? Are you a blogger or thinking about starting a professional blog that focuses on aspects of academic practice – then this...
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LTD’s Good Practice Guides
Over 30 years of combined experience working with academic and administrative staff have been distilled into the many Learning Technology guides and other resources that now reside in the Learning...
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Getting ready for THIS year!
Next steps for academic staff – and one thing you SHOULDN’T do! At this time of year all academic staff should have gained access to the Blackboard course areas they will be using this year*. Here are...
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New Blackboard – new Browser required
Are you missing links from the top of your Blackboard page – such as ‘Learning Edge Homepage’? Do you see something like this: If so, you are probably using Internet Explorer 7 on a PC – and will have...
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Shifting portfolios online
How a ‘spark’ during a staff development session led to a fully ‘on-line’ portfolio for all PCET trainees. Lindsey Marsh (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education) attended an early Campus Pack training...
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The secrets of online discussion
How one tutor used simple techniques to generate authentic, engaging and fruitful online discussion. During a focus group with a cohort of Teaching, Learning and Mentoring Practice students, 3rd years...
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Using Facebook to engage and retain new students
Weaving social media into the learning technology mix. Ian Currie, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, is an advocate for the complimentary use of social media to support his students’...
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Using Blackboard for collaborative writing
By Rob Spence, Associate Head of Department – English & History In the Humanities, the written word is still the key method by which assessments are made, so it is crucial that students are adept...
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Has Video Thrilled the Students so Far?
How video has been used to enhance engagement and the student learning experience on a blended learning programme The Mathematics Specialist Teacher (MaST) Programme is a blended course for serving...
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How Blackboard Blogs put a “Wow” factor into an epidemiology lecture …
… creating a student generated resource that is used during the session and as a reference. Laura Taylor, Senior Lecturer and Senior SOLSTICE Fellow within the Faculty of Health and Social Care...
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A Tidal Wave of Discussion …
How active discussion produced outstanding* results. By David Callaghan Online discussion forums are widely-used in online and blended courses at Edge Hill and increasingly course teams have been...
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Alas Prescott and Ellis
… it’s a bit like having a tutorial with you … An initial request to create an online session for the PG Cert in HE has resulted in a wealth of video resources ranging from academic writing to change...
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LTD Hot Desks
Come along to the LTD office to use our Hot Desk PCs. The Hot Desk PCs have dual screen monitors for working with Blackboard and creating graphic, audio and video materials for teaching and learning....
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Screencasting Formative Feedback
How one tutor increased students’ engagement with feedback. In this video blog post Carl Simmons explains why assessment is so problematic and suggests how tutors can increase the amount of useful...
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Collaborating all over the world
Using Blackboard Collaborate to support students based outside the UK Pam Nicol has a number of roles at the University – this posting involves her work on the Masters in International Higher...
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Engaging learners with Blackboard Collaborate
How the Inclusion Team is using our web conferencing platform to engage students, enhance communication and improve outcomes. Anne McLoughlin is the leader of Edge Hill’s dyslexia programme. The...
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Technologies are an “absolute lifeline” for our students!
Blackboard Collaborate and discussion forums help build community and meet students’ emotional and learning needs. Readers of this Learning Edge blog will be familiar with our Best of TEL series, where...
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Too good to ignore!
Users of Learning Edge! We have an exciting new addition to the family! Ok, so it might not be the most exciting thing for some, but we will shortly be switching on a fantastic new tool within...
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Collaborate ‘Rooms’
… a 24/7 classroom and/or your own ‘Virtual Office’. The recent upgrade to our Collaborate web conferencing system has added a ‘Rooms’ feature – i.e., every course and every instructor now have their...
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