The Digital Education Unit at the University of Glasgow has pulled together 12 apps that are useful in teaching and learning for online and distance education. Starting on the 9th of December 2019 they will reveal one app per day for 12 consecutive working days. They’ve added some festive cheer by creating a different short… Read more »
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Assessment and Feedback Toolkit
Have you seen the Assessment and Feedback Toolkit? FLIE’s Assessment and Feedback Toolkit provides resources for academic staff along with tools and strategies to align assessment and feedback practices with the BU Principles of Assessment Design Policy (6c). At BU we support the Higher Education Academy’s principle that teaching and learning in Higher Education can… Read more »
Brightspace tools : Intelligent Agents
At the end of November, Sophie McGown Customer Success Manager at D2L, ran some sessions with BU staff providing a more detailed look at one of Brightspace’s most powerful tools; Intelligent Agents. Sophie shared some best practice and top tips before assisting staff in building and scheduling Intelligent Agents to run on their units. What… Read more »
Green screen – an easy way to create an impression…
At our recent research day, ‘Nurses today, tomorrow and the future’, our librarian Jose Lopez Blanco and I decided to give a future ‘feel’ to the day. Working with FLIE LTs Tracey Webb and Stephen Pyne, we used chroma keying (where a block of colour is replaced by an image or video) using a piece… Read more »
Pearson Global Learner Survey 2019
Pearson have published their inaugural Global Learner Survey, capturing the opinions of learners worldwide. Internationally, learners are relying less on traditional institutions and are adopting a self-directed approach to their education, embracing technology and online learning to facilitate this. Learners are looking for vocational and soft skills bite-size learning across their lifetime. The report highlights… Read more »
Women in AI: Reinforcing Sexism and Stereotypes with Tech
An interesting article from Techopedia on the persistent problem of bias in AI. Why are gendered stereotypes manifested in the female identities associated with AI assistants? Why is there a systemic gender gap in technology roles in general, and in AI in particular? A recent UNESCO report warns how, if men continue to dominate this… Read more »
5 common myths about virtual reality
… and why they aren’t true People have many different ideas about virtual reality, but not all of those conceptions are based in reality. Techopedia looks at the fact and fiction of VR and its potential across a broad range of different industries, highlighting 5 common myths: Myth 1: VR is a modern technology that… Read more »
The Future of Skills in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution
D2L (suppliers of Brightspace) have produced a whitepaper on the skills of the future and how new models of learning must be embraced to meet the needs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As automation rapidly consumes basic tasks in the workplace, they focus on how educational establishments must adapt to address the rising demand for… Read more »
Five Tech Trends Transforming Higher Education
Josie Cluer on WONKHE highlights five technologies we can expect to see being used routinely across the sector in the near future; promising a better student experience, cheaper services, better use of academic time and better learning outcomes. Read the article here.
The first AI-generated textbook has been published – but is it useful?
Academic publisher Springer Nature has unveiled what it claims is the first research book generated using machine learning. Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Machine-Generated Summary of Current Research is a summary of peer-reviewed papers includes quotations, hyperlinks to the work cited, and automatically generated references contents. Does this herald a new era in scientific publishing? Read the full… Read more »
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