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
This research article by Sheffield Hallam academics explores student perspectives on the use of audio feedback in their nursing course. The majority of students found the use of audio feedback as a positive experience with individual benefits. The research also explored staff perspectives about the use of this type of feedback. The article abstract and full…
The deadline for submitting to the Learning & Teaching Conference has been extended to Monday 16th April 2012. If you want to share your practice in technology enhanced learning with the University, please submit something! The University’s Learning & Teaching Conference provides an opportunity to explore the future of HE. The conference welcomes submissions from…
The HERSG conference has a strand on pedagogy and technology-enhanced learning this year, so staff interested in technology enhanced learning may want to share their practice at the conference, and we are highlighting the call for proposals that has been sent out: HERSG 2012 Annual Conference Making Higher Education Count: Pedagogies for post 2012 June…
Staff interested in technology enhanced learning may want to share their practice at our University-wide learning and teaching conference, so we are repeating the call for proposals that went out via email: The University’s Learning and Teaching Conference will take place on Wednesday 11th July. Its main theme is “Higher Expectations: Meeting our Students’ Expectations…
Quite a few UK conferences related to e-learning have opened their calls for paper and presentation abstracts. We thought it was worth highlighting them for any staff engaging in research related to technology enhanced learning, including action research about teaching. Association of Learning Technologists Conference (ALT-C) 2012: A confrontation with reality University of Manchester, 11-13 September…
As a follow-up to our earlier blog post announcing the call for proposals, this is a reminder that there is an opportunity for you to get a student researcher to support investigating an element of the student experience in your course, including technology enhanced learning/e-learning elements. The deadline for proposals is 16 Jan however so be…
We’re pleased to announce an exciting new project which involves getting students to research an aspect of their student experience. One of the themes is technology enhanced learning, so we’ll be sponsoring four projects which involve investigating an aspect of technology enhanced learning on a course or module. The project provides funding for the student researchers and…
We want to know how students make use of feedback to support their overall learning experience at Sheffield Hallam – how they engage with feedback, store and recall feedback for use in future learning and future assignments, and how technology can help students use feedback more effectively. We want to hear from students about their…
This journal article by Sheffield Hallam academics is a literature review of the past decade’s research into technology’s role in encouraging student engagement with feedback. This includes where technology releases feedback to students quickly, generates feedback automatically, and encourages action based on that feedback. This literature review was initially created as part of the HEA-funded Technology,…