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BU’s IT Services has introduced a new and convenient way of showing presentations using BU’s – or your own – devices without wires or adaptors. This new installation is part of the wider Audio Visual Refresh Project, which has seen equipment in teaching spaces and meeting rooms across the university being replaced with the most… Read more » about TEL Toolkit: Presentation equipment
Dr Geli Roushan reports on an Academic Leadership Tour that was hosted by the University of Groningen to learn more about how the University is using Blackboard (Bb), or as we refer to the application, myBU. A number of UK universities were joined to hear Groningen’s experience of Bb where their IT and education departments have… Read more » about What we can learn from how others are using Blackboard/myBU
Study: Millennials Spend More Than 3 Hrs/Day on #MobilePhones buff.ly/1LQksrm By Rhea Kelly 11/19/15 The average U.S. millennial (aged 16-30) with Internet access spends 3.1 hours a day on a mobile phone — totaling 21.7 hours a week or 1,128 hours (47 days) a year, according to a new study from global research consultancy TNS…. Read more » about Study: Millennials Spend More Than 3 Hrs/Day on Mobile Phones
Extract from the JISC introduction: At Jisc, we have been looking into the hot topic of employability and the growing ‘employability gap’: the fact that the skills students have as they leave our educational institutions aren’t meeting the expectations of employers, and that employers also want wider, softer skills as well as demonstration of knowledge… Read more » about ‘Unlocking the digital potential of graduates: technology for employability
JISC have revisited their excellent guide to mobile learning – new case studies, videos and lots more… Extract from Guide: “Mobile learning can be many things to different groups of people. Superficially, it appears from the outside to be learning via mobile devices such as smartphones, MP3 players, laptops and tablets. Certainly, these are important… Read more » about The new and updated JISC Guide to mobile learning
Greetings OER Friends: In case you missed this good news… The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its latest OER report yesterday: Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation, Educational Research and Innovation. (PDF) OECD post re-tweet CC post re-tweet Creative Commons (CC) is also pleased to see OECD using a CC license… Read more » about The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) release of latest OER report (thanks to Cable Green)
The next Vision4Learning drop-in session is tomorrow (Thursday 3 Dec) in S219, 8am to 11am. Come along to find out about the TEL Toolkit. We welcome as much feedback as possible to suggest enhancements before the site is built.
I have been looking for an online tool to enable students equipped with a smartphone to provide feedback during lectures. As many students have a device that can connect to the internet, using such a tool can help to improve engagement and can provide useful feedback and information. One such tool is called Mentimeter (www.mentimeter.com). … Read more » about TEL Toolkit: Mentimeter
