Turning Point Lunch & Learn event, Tuesday 18th September, 12:15 to 14:45 at City Campus On Tuesday 18th September we will be joined by Turning Point for a ‘Lunch & Learn’ staff development session. Turning Point is an easy-to-use polling and assessment solution which SHU has a staff license for. It allows learners to participate…
Message on behalf of Dr. Graham Holden and Dr. Alison Purvis, Project Leads for the Digital Learning Project The Digital Learning Project needs input from academics to understand the current realities of teaching and learning with digital technologies at a local level, and to consider what our vision for digital learning should be like. We are…
Booking is now open for #SocMedHE16, which has the theme ‘The Empowered Learner?’ Friday 16th December 2016 at Sheffield Hallam University The second Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference #SocMedHE16 is being organised by, and held at Sheffield Hallam University. This conference creates a forum for academics, students and strategic managers…
Last year, in the run up to the Christmas break, Regent’s University London ran a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) focused on mobile apps that can help support teaching and learning on tablets and smartphones. On each day of the ’12 Apps of Christmas’ MOOC, an app was introduced, along with some ideas for how…
#SocMedHE15 18 December 2015 Sheffield Hallam University is organising and hosting the first sector conference dedicated to the use of social media for learning in HE. It’s being put together in order to provide a hub for practitioners, strategists, academics and students alike to come together to talk about the impact Social Media is having…
PebblePad is primarily an online, private space for reflecting on learning and development, though it can also be used for assessment, employability activities and more. It has been used for many years in the faculties of Development & Society and Health & Wellbeing at SHU, and has recently been made available to all staff and students…
On the week of 14 – 18 July, SHU is running this open online blended course about using smart phones and tablet PCs to enhance and transform teaching and learning. The course is running concurrently at other universities over the 5 day period and uses social media, video scenarios, and face-to-face peer-enhanced activities . BYOD4L focuses on: Connecting Communicating Curating Collaborating…
The Changing the Learning Landscape Programme is an initiative from the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. It encourages universities to change their culture and to increase the use of educational technologies. Sheffield Hallam University’s (SHU) engagement in this initiative focusses on increasing, and enhancing, the use of existing tools and technologies. These workshops are an opportunity…
Over the summer months, staff will be preparing their 2014/15 Blackboard sites so they are ready to use with students. Supported time sessions will be available from June through to September where you can prepare your site with a member of the central and/or faculty Technology Enhanced Learning teams on hand to explain the process and…
There are still places available on the Introduction to Google Apps workshops. These hands-on workshops follow on from the recent Google Apps for Learning and Teaching event and roundtable discussions on using Google Apps for collaborative work, and participants will: learn how to access their Google account use basic tools to create and share a…