We will be running another series of demo sessions to introduce Blackboard Collaborate, a new virtual classroom tool. Blackboard Collaborate provides staff with a modern, powerful tool to facilitate synchronous (at the same time) learning activities. Its features include sharing audio, webcam video, presentations in a white board, and a chat window which includes a…
Tuesday 16th April 12.00 – 13.30 Cantor 9228 Dr Mira Vogel, Education Developer, elearning Environments, University College London Social learning is an important aspect of the move from didactic to more constructivist approaches to learning. Well-conceived group work promises to contribute to the graduate attributes agenda, bring personal contact and companionship to courses, and provide…
We wanted to highlight an upcoming PhD research seminar that may be of interest. It is looking at constructivist models for online educational resources involving getting students to create and share them. 4 December – 12:00-13:00 at Unit 7 Science Park (no booking required) Further information
We will be running demo sessions to introduce Blackboard Collaborate, a new virtual classroom tool. Blackboard Collaborate provides staff with a modern, powerful tool to facilitate synchronous (at the same time) learning activities. Its features include sharing audio, webcam video, presentations in a white board, and a chat window which includes a polling feature. It…
At the time of the upgrade we applied a slight change in the terminology used to help clarify the available tools for staff. Blackboard provides two types of blog tools with different functionality. Please see the new names for these below, along with an explanation of what each does: Shared blogs (formerly called blogs) allow…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. During this summer we are implementing a new Blackboard product called Collaborate. Collaborate is a virtual classroom tool which is about facilitating synchronous (at the same…
28 March, 12-1, led by Heidi Probst, as part of the HWB distance learning seminar series To develop entrepreneurial skills on a new module for advanced (or aspiring advanced) practitioners in a specialist radiotherapy field it was felt that a Problem Based Learning approach would be most appropriate. However, for busy working practitioners studying remote…
This article is the second in a series of five articles about scenarios for mobile learning. These are linked to an initiative to promote and capture innovation in e-learning. What is it? Students can use their mobile devices to search for information during taught sessions. Their findings can impact on the direction of the session,…
This case study describes an initiative that used online role play to help students develop their ICT skills on an undergraduate Occupational Therapy degree course. The course used an intensive enquiry based learning approach during which students were expected to undertake electronic literature searches, communicate and share information via an online learning environment. The course…
This post is a follow up to an earlier posting about Google Apps, in which the poor accessibility of Google Apps was mentioned as an issue. Google recently announced a set of accessibility improvements for Google Apps (and also for Android phones and Chrome browsers), and it is worth checking out what they might mean…