tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43088209257392346282024-03-13T21:26:19.755+00:00Centre for Learning and Teaching at Leeds Beckett UniversityAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-13956416952876792452016-06-06T12:55:00.004+01:002016-11-04T14:20:10.797+00:00Google user case studies from Carnegie faculty by Colin Mitchell<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AVDhPi6Zq84/V2Ark4_B_3I/AAAAAAAAAqE/WIzjeO1QC8AgwNTQyevGQ96EzrdO1pPnwCLcB/s1600/Google-Poster-2016-UPDATE-flat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="355" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AVDhPi6Zq84/V2Ark4_B_3I/AAAAAAAAAqE/WIzjeO1QC8AgwNTQyevGQ96EzrdO1pPnwCLcB/s400/Google-Poster-2016-UPDATE-flat.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the last 3-4 years I have been working with different groups of staff and students within the Carnegie faculty (and beyond) to help embed Google Apps for Education in teaching & learning practice. This work has covered many different areas from sign-up sheets to effective course communities, from course team documentation to ePortfolios and many more. We wanted t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o raise awareness of some of the diverse uses that the Google service can support help others and hopefully spark ideas of how you might use it in your own areas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With that in mind and with the specialist skills of my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: justify;">assistant learning technologist, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elliott Link,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> we created some bite-size videos</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> These are n</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ot '<i>How to</i>' videos but more '<i>This is how we have uses it so</i>'. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our aim was to capture some of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">real-world </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stories that highlight how different staff within the Carnegie schools of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Education & Childhood</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sport use the same core </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Google Apps for Education </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">services to help them. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The stories include the honest voices of academic and support staff as well as students who are using the service in some way on a day-to-day basis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In recent years interest in the Google service and how it can be best used, has increased significantly. A good indicator of this is the current level of enquiries for an upcoming s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ession </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the <a href="https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/partners/deap-conference.htm">DEAP16 conference</a> that I will be co-presenting entitled '<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Using Google Apps to Help You Work More Effectively</i></span>'. At the last count this session 73 members of staff had already signed-up and it was the fastest session to fill-up (hence the repeat sessio</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n!) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you're interested in finding out more - you're welcome to sign-up before all the places go!</span>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04805177850647679223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-18624571699843362482016-05-11T10:22:00.000+01:002016-05-11T10:22:36.162+01:00Case studies of technology in teaching by Rebecca Sellers<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the last few months with the technical skills of our assistant learning technologist, Tom Davis we have recorded a number of short case study videos showcasing how staff at Leeds Beckett use a range of technologies to support, engage and enhance learning and teaching. This is the starting point of an ongoing exercise to document range of tools used by staff and the variety of ways they are used in their day to day work of learning and teaching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The systems and tools that are covered in the first group of videos include Google apps, Twitter, Pebblepad and audio feedback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If while watching the videos you think you could contribute a case study video or a written case study please get in touch. These examples along with other interviews and resources will be embedded into a new resource site to be created jointly between the Centre for Learning and Teaching, Distance Learning Unit and Learning Systems. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-86671566222743649842016-05-09T11:24:00.002+01:002016-05-09T11:24:55.882+01:00#DEAP16 Bookings are open for Leeds Beckett staff <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we move through spring towards summer it can only mean one thing, that the Leeds Beckett DEAP16 Learning and Teaching conference is not far away. A 2 day conference open to all Leeds Beckett staff involved in all aspects of learning and teaching. This year the conference is on the 29 and 30th June at Headingley Campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The theme for this years conference is 'Teaching Excellence:Excellent Teaching', over the 2 days we will look both internal and external views and practice in these areas. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-56219715859757818812016-04-04T11:50:00.003+01:002016-04-04T11:50:22.728+01:00AUA Conference 2016 by Lyn Edwards <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-56760304375924446912016-03-21T11:06:00.000+00:002016-03-21T11:06:03.577+00:00Digifest 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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Birmingham to attend the Digifest conference held in the International
Convention Centre. As this was the first conference I had attended I was not
sure what to expect, and after walking into the main area where the talks were
held I immediately felt I had stepped into the future. Firstly noticing the
giant inflatable igloo looking structures (which were used for holding sessions
across the two days), I then found myself surrounded by moving robots and a
variety of other machines and gadgets on display. After a brief moment there we
then moved across to the hall to attend the first session of the conference,
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about the progress of modern technology and the exciting new educational
benefits and opportunities this poses into the near future. The main highlight
from this was getting the chance to look around and inspect the various
machines and gadgets on display. The first thing that caught my eye was the 3D
printer, which I had the opportunity to learn about and observe whilst in
practice. From what could be mistaken for a large microwave from a distance,
with a closer look I was able to witness a data scan being transformed into a
3D plastic model. I was also able to get my hands on some previous models that
had been printed earlier in the day, and seeing the fine detail in the objects
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away by how drawn in I was to the seemingly real environments, and by the end I
was left both amazed by the technology that seems to be on the verge of
appearing on the mainstream market, and also left pondering on the impact and
benefits this poses towards future learning and teaching methods, should any of
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on “ The power of digital for teaching and learning”. I found this first talk
in particular was a real eye opener into the advancement and expansion of
technology in education and its impact on the modern learning experience. One
specific point made during this talk which I found interesting, was the
exploration of the changing learning spaces from the traditional to the modern learning
environment through digital learning. The speaker looked into the pros and cons
regarding this current change, discussing how the modern learning space is more
open with improved accessibility and freedom, allowing students to work from
home with more flexibility in time and scheduling. The speaker then went on to
debate the issues with this off campus digital learning system, discussing how
this can lead to isolation from peers and tutors, and a loss of a sense of
community within a course, emphasising the necessity for campus libraries and
physical learning environments. The speaker concluded by suggesting some form
of combination between these learning spaces as ideal, drawing upon the
positives identified in both spaces whilst combating the issues that come with
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Feb 2016 Leeds Beckett Students' Union held a conference to support its Course Reps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Centre for Learning and Teaching invited these reps to leave a record of what they valued about their courses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These all got at least one mention:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">wide choice of electives</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sense of community</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">excellent facilities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But by far the most frequently remarked on</span></div>
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<b>Practical application</b></h3>
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<b> Helpful, approachable staff</b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it is a snapshot of the views and values of the current Course Reps we spoke to.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-51747806809300904452015-11-17T14:39:00.001+00:002015-11-17T14:39:23.364+00:00Try something new and borrow our equipment<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Rebecca Sellers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many staff would like to try using technology to support their teaching but many are put off by having to pay for something that they might find doesn't work for them or find there is too much choice and don't know where to start. This is where CLT can help, we have a range of devices available to loan to staff and can talk through the wide range of options available to see what might suit your situation best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below is a description of each of the items we can loan out and the apps that we have available on them. The technology can be booked using this <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/vWhSSksc1f">form.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If there are apps or technologies that are not listed and you think it might be useful to support staff please get in touch. We are always looking at how we can best support staff to try and embed appropriate technologies in their teaching. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">iPads</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have a case that contains 16 identical full size tablets. These have been used in a number of ways in classes including for polling software, to do research activities in class, to gather feedback through an online form. We also use them with staff to show how to use apps such as Turntin to mark online. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Turnitin</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Blackboard grader</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Blackboard Learn</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Google sheets/docs</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have 2 cases of Nexus tablets each containing 14 tablets. These tablets have a 7" screen. These are ready to go with internet access. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The catch Box throwable microphone is interactive microphone that can be thrown around a classroom or lecture theatre making a more engaging Q&A session and allowing quieter speakers to be heard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have a total of 8 laptops that can be loaned out singularly or as a set. They have standard Microsoft programmes on and interest access. These laptops also have Panopto for screen recordings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you would like to try them in your teaching or as part of a staff development session please get in touch. </span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-54208018146809386892015-11-16T13:57:00.000+00:002015-11-16T14:02:06.937+00:00Think Taxonomies are boring-? Then think again….<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Calling module leaders, course teams and course
designers! Do you want a useful tool to help you with writing course and module
learning outcomes?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all love classifying and sorting things- from
sock drawers to library books to animal breeds….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a course with suitably levelled assessments and appropriate activities?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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simplifying the language, drawing out the development of learning expected from
students at each undergraduate and postgraduate levels of the taught courses
and on the research courses award. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also worked to integrate our graduate
attributes (being enterprising, digital literacy and having a global outlook)
and came up with some good ideas if you are struggling with how to make them
more visible in your undergraduate courses. C<span style="background-color: white;">lick <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/files/external/CLT-Taxonomy_of_Assessment_Domains_GA_Mapping.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></span> fo</span>r some useful graduate attribute
related help and how you can link them to the required domains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Even better if you want to get all interactive and
drill down to understand each domain better then use<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://my.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/courses/SP_seller06_01/Tax%20no%20resources%20-%20CLT/story.html" target="_blank">this</a></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>designed by The Centre for
Learning and Teaching’s own learning technologist, Becky Sellers. It is proving
to be a useful, fun teaching tool for less experienced staff to </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">practice</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> their
course design skills.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-47628124909169300942015-11-04T14:22:00.001+00:002015-11-16T12:40:06.388+00:00CanvasCon at the British Museum.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the 20th October I caught a very early train to London to attend the <a href="https://www.canvasvle.co.uk/">Canvas </a>conference at the British Museum. As an institution we are currently using Blackboard to provide our VLE and there are no short term plans to change this. The reason to travel to the conference was to keep up to date with other options on the market and see some of the features that we might want to consider. Also it always useful to see how other institutions use and manage their VLE's and interact with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The conference was held in the British Museum which was an imposing place to walk into. The actual venue was a lecture theatre under the main building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sessions started with information about how the product had been developed and the company had grown. The company is still relatively small in the number of staff it employs but continues to grow. The next speaker was from Hult Business School<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 21.1199989318848px;"> </span>and talked abut the huge amount of data they had gathered and how they were using this better develop their system and support students. The analytics package they had developed to help identify students that were struggling or who had not engaged with a number of activities was beginning to shape how they developed their support mechanisms and reviewed programmes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The next speakers were from Wolsey Hall School and spoke about how the system supported their online and distance learners. They had a lot of experience of working with this group of students and spoke highly of the platforms ability to be flexible for their needs .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Next it was lunch time, and instead of a buffet we got a lunch box prepacked with food. The contents was a sandwich, popcorn, macaroons and a can of fizzy pop. Although the contents was nothing special the branded metal lunch box was a very nice touch as everyone went home with a branded object that they probably had to carry on show due to the size of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The afternoon was made up of parallel sessions. The sessions that i attended were for people new to Canvas. The one that stood out was from University of Birmingham and detailed how they had changed from one VLE to Canvas. Due to the similarities between the system the staff found it easy to move to the new system. One thing that I took away from the session was that they rushed the change of system and would recommend a better planned move so that everyone could be trained and used to the new system when the old one was switched off. This is a lesson to learn and remember if we change any system or bring in a new institutional piece of software. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall the conference was interesting and stimulating, it is always good to see what other products are on the market and how other institutions use their VLE's to support learning. The issues faced about uptake and knowledge of staff, the consistency of provision and the engagement of students are sector wide and not limited by institution, discipline or the platforms used. I think this is important to remember when looking at new or replacement tech. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-80738397454853308992015-11-04T09:49:00.002+00:002015-11-04T09:49:48.853+00:00Metacognitive behaviours in Australia<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/partners/centre-for-learning-and-teaching.htm" target="_blank">by Susan Smith</a></span><br />
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Australia at the </span><a href="http://www.issotl.com/issotl15/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #44546a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;">International Society for the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #44546a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">held in Melbourne. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">I have also been
part of the </span><a href="http://issotl2015.com.au/ICWG2015.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #44546a; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text2;">International Collaborative
Writing Groups</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">and we met prior to the conference for a
couple of days of structured activity to plan a research project and a series of
papers about student metacognition and learning transfer. I wanted to share
some of our thoughts about our metacognitive endeavours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eight groups
were part of the ICWG. The groups formed in May and met virtually over the
summer to focus their topics and develop an outline prior to the face-to-face
meeting this past week. Our group’s topic was <em>The Student Learning
Process</em>, and we focused our efforts on <em>how metacognition would
support the transfer of learning from one situation or context to another</em>.
We believe the transfer of learning is one of the ultimate goals of education
because it supports lifelong learning and employability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The group’s
work on how metacognition supports the transfer of learning will be revealed
when it’s published, but meanwhile, we will share some ways that metacognition
was part of our experience of facilitating the group. Here are some pictures The
first shows our group working: from left to right, Lauren Scharff, </span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">U. S. Air Force
Academy,</span></em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Susan Smith (Leeds Beckett University, UK), Lucie S Dvorakova (Honors
Student, University of Queensland, Australia), Marion Tower (University of
Queensland), Dominic Verpoorten (IFRES-University of Liège, Belgium), Marie
Devlin (Newcastle University, UK), and Jason M. Lodge (University of Melbourne,
Australia), [John Draeger from SUNY, Buffalo State University, is taking the
pic]. The second gives you a sense of the overall setting, showing multiple
groups all kept to task by ICWG coordinators, Mick Healy (University of
Gloucestershire, retired) and Kelly Matthews (University of Queensland).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15pt;">We defined
metacognition as the intertwined awareness (self- monitoring) and
self-regulation of a process/skill, specifically with the goal of developing
that process or skill. We actually noticed our group were using metacognitive
behaviours ourselves in some aspects of our work- particularly in our assumptions,
the use of language and relating to the breadth of the project.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Assumptions
about education: Our discussion revealed differences in the structures of the
university systems in different countries. When discussing how students might
use their learning in one course to inform their learning in another, the two
North Americans on the team tended to think about transfer learning between a
diverse set of courses across a broad liberal arts core curriculum in addition
to transfer across more closely related courses within a major. Because
undergraduate education in Australia and the United Kingdom tend not to be
structured around a broad core curriculum, members of the team from these
countries tended to focus on transfer learning within a particular field of
study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use of
Language: Given the international character of the group, self-monitoring and
self-regulation allowed us to navigate differences in language and underlying
assumptions. For example, through our discussions, we learned that academic
faculty might be referred to as ‘staff,’ ‘tutor,’ ‘instructor’ or ‘professor.’
Individual courses might be referred to as ‘classes,’ ‘modules’ or ‘units’ of
study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Management of
Project Scope: Both transfer of learning and metacognition are vast areas of
study. Given the wide variety of experiences and individual interests in our
group, we explored a wide array of possible directions for our paper, some of
which we decided we would table for follow-on papers (e.g. how student level of
intellectual development might impact transfer of learning and the creation of
a “toolkit” for instructors that would help them support transfer of learning).
Moving the conversation in fruitful directions required that all of us remain
mindful of the task at hand (i.e. working towards a 6000-word article).
Self-monitoring allowed us to detect when an interesting discussion had gone
beyond the scope of our current article and self-regulation more quickly
brought us back to the task at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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international character of the writing group added a depth and richness to the
conversation, but it also increased the likelihood of misunderstanding and the
challenge of group management. Self-monitoring and self-regulation allowed us
to overcome those challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-62041224278881188202015-11-02T11:08:00.002+00:002015-11-02T11:08:08.812+00:00Digital lunches #1 and #2 <span style="font-size: large;">This post is a quick summary of the first 2 Digital lunches a new series of staff development sessions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first session covered making MyBeckett more mobile friendly, looking specifically at the <a href="http://learningsystems.m.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blackboard-learn/staff-information/blackboard-mobile-learn/">Mobile Learn app</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a good turnout and I was well supported by member's of the Learning Systems Team. However, the internet and MyBeckett were unavailable during the session due to a network issue outside the university's control. This meant the hands-on session I had planned could not take place and I had to improvise and talk through the features I wanted to demonstrate and take questions from the floor. Even with this set back I think all staff took at least one new piece of information away with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The staff that attended the session were very understanding that the issues were beyond my control and that they were having the same issues with their MyBeckett sites. It was a little frustrating as it was my first solo training session and it didn't go to plan at all but these things cannot be helped and it demonstrates that tech can fail even for those of us who are meant to be 'techy'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The link to the resources created from the session can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kghRgIp4Wk1MmaHfr_XO_oFAptqC9Z4Ac9Np9DkWKhg/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second session focused on the wide range of online feedback methods that are available to staff. There are a wide range of tools and finding the right tool is dependent on what the students are submitting written, video, presentation etc ad whether is it formative or summative. In September 2015 a new policy was brought in that all written work for students in levels 4 and 7 should be submitted to Turnitin for text matching. This policy here does not stipulate how staff should mark or provide feedback to students. We talked about how you could use Panopto to provide voice overs and demonstrations for exercises such as critically assessing journal articles. We also looked at using Google docs to work together with students on assessments such as dissertations to create an ongoing dialogue of feedback and reflection to support them. Members of the students union attended the session and commented how useful they had found Google docs and sheets for creating group work. They have also created a guide for students on feedback and these are available in hard copy from the Students Union or CLT. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The resources from the session are available </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/a/leedsmet.ac.uk/document/d/10mlwkVFJjhbSXHo2ZzECwwhIzKzn0MKFpWOS-OcxNjU/edit?usp=sharing" style="font-size: x-large;">here</a><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A link to book on future sessions is available <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/qDFhS5j8LH">here</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-18521778090195315792015-10-08T11:46:00.003+01:002015-10-08T11:46:48.808+01:00ALTC 2015 - University of Manchester<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">On the 8<sup>th</sup> September
2015 I headed to the University of Manchester to attend the 3 days of
conference and fun at ALT-C (The Association of Learning Technologists
Conference).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It brings together Learning
Technologists, academics and all those interested in the use of technology to
support and enhance learning and teaching. This post sums some of my most memorable
parts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I had made a point of meeting up
with friends and old work colleagues Hayley and James. We have all moved on to
new institutions but keep in touch sharing experiences and ideas, ALT-C
provides the perfect opportunity to do this face to face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The conference always starts with
the challenge of which sessions to go. This year I had read through eh
programme and had an idea of what might be good but as the 3 days go on the
list always changes. The only think that was a definite fixture in the 3 days
was the treasure hunt on day 2. I first met Hayley doing a treasure hunt at the
University of Leeds using AR and knew that there was no way we would miss out
on doing another one. Another feature of the conference this year was the ALT_C
game which ran across the 3 days and introduced the attendees to the idea of
gamification. There was stickers awarded for arriving at a session first,
talking to suppliers and completing a wide range of activities. The delegates
were split into 4 coloured teams to compete to take on the EvilBot. The game
finished with the winning team taking on Evilbot on the last day of the
conference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">As with previous conferences there
was a big social media presence, it is always good to see what is going on in parallel
sessions and bookmark shared papers for reading later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The conference started with a
keynote from Steve Wheeler about the changes in technology and how we use it.
He also brought 2 of his students to talk about their experiences. I think it
is always important to hear student feedback direct from them but also to
engage them in the conversation. Faceless surveys gather data but they often
miss the human element and as many are anonymised it is hard to follow up
specific comments or suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">As I moved through sessions on Day
1 I learnt about how different staff have used technologies in their university
and the research they have done into the impact of them. Firstly was Chris
Gillies talking about the comparisons, barriers and enablers of BYOD and institutionally
supplied devices. This work is really
useful as we think about how we support staff and students to use devices
within Leeds Beckett. The first day ended with the gala dinner. As part of the
ALT-C game we had ‘craft’ activities on the tables to make hats and decorate
them. My table took to this task with great enthusiasm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The keynote delivered by Jonathan
Worth on day 2 was enlightening and thought provoking, well worth a <a href="https://youtu.be/3BORMZ8UoUE">watch</a> if you spare the time. Day 2 highlight
was charging around and completing the treasure hunt. It was good to learn
about a new website by using and engaging it. The site called ActionBound was
really easy to use and with the demonstration of setting up looked like
something work investigating further to add interest to induction activities
and maybe add some fun to staff development sessions. I also went to sessions about the value of
lecture capture, it was a great session to be in to talk and discuss the value
of lecture capture and why it is useful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The final day saw the ALT-C game
end and the Evilbot defeated (it ended with a piñata style robot). The game was
good and brought a thread to the whole event. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This is just a very brief summary
of the some of the things I saw and heard. There is a huge amount of information available from the event and I will be going back to them in the future to
support and guide my thinking about the use of technologies in learning and
teaching. Here is the <a href="https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2015/programme/#/day1">link</a>
for all the resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-21473148848298985472015-09-22T16:02:00.000+01:002015-10-09T11:52:39.273+01:00The first 6 months and the new academic year. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The start of the new academic year is upon us again. This is the start of my first full cycle at Leeds Beckett University and the campuses already feel busier than at any point before. It also marks my 6 month anniversary in the job. My first 6 months have been a whirlwind of meeting people, finding places and trying not to break the technology but I am really enjoying it. Over the next 6 months I will lead my first development session, you can read about that below, begin to shape a new CLT resource site and work with colleagues from within CLT and across the institution on a wide range of events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have spent the summer planning and preparing the new staff development programme for 2015/16. You can find and book all the sessions through iTrent , if you can't find it on iTrent or want more information about a session just contact <a href="mailto:clt@leedsbeckett.ac.uk">clt@leedsbeckett.ac.uk</a>. You can also see our sessions in date order on our <a href="https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/clt-workshop-resources.htm" target="_blank">events page</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There a number of new sessions this year including a group of sessions I will be running called the 'Digital Lunches'. As the title says there will be lunch and we will be talking about technology and the use of digital skills. These sessions are going to be hands on and interactive, we will share ideas, concerns and work together. I am also creating a MyBeckett module for the sessions so even if you can't attend you can interact and learn about the topics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The topics I will be covering over the 8 sessions are :</span><br />
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Fri 16th October"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fri 16th October</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#1. Making MyBeckett Modules Mobile Friendly"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#1. Making MyBeckett Modules Mobile Friendly</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Students and staff can access MyBeckett through the Blackboard Mobile app. This practical workshop will let you check your own modules and then try out ideas to make it more mobile friendly"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students and staff can access MyBeckett through the Blackboard Mobile app. This practical workshop will let you check your own modules and then try out ideas to make it more mobile friendly</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Headingley"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Headingley</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JG123</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,3,null,42300]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 23 October 2015</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#2. Online Feedback - the Options"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#2. Online Feedback - the Options</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"A look at the video, audio and text options to deliver online feedback. Includes setting the submission method to make it easier to return the type of feedback you want."]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A look at the video, audio and text options to deliver online feedback. Includes setting the submission method to make it easier to return the type of feedback you want.</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"City"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PD401</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,3,null,42321]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 13 November 2015</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#3. Online Communities of Practice"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#3. Online Communities of Practice</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"We can all share ideas and experiences through a range of formal and informal online groups and networks.How can they support our teaching and learning development?"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can all share ideas and experiences through a range of formal and informal online groups and networks.How can they support our teaching and learning development?</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"City"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PD401</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,3,null,42328]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 20 November 2015</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#4. Social Media for Learning and Teaching"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#4. Social Media for Learning and Teaching</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How social media can enhance the classroom experience and expand students global understanding of their subjects. Includes examples from Twitter, Facebook & Periscope."]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How social media can enhance the classroom experience and expand students global understanding of their subjects. Includes examples from Twitter, Facebook & Periscope.</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Headingley"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Headingley</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leighton G14</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,3,null,42356]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 18 December 2015</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#5. The Appy Hour - Show & Tell"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#5. The Appy Hour - Show & Tell</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Share with others your favourite apps from 2015 and find some new ones to try next year."]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Share with others your favourite apps from 2015 and find some new ones to try next year.</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"City"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PD401</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,3,null,42384]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 15 January 2016</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#6. Bring Your Own Device - and Switch It On"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#6. Bring Your Own Device - and Switch It On</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Many students now carry a mobile device with them to university. How might it be used to create more interactive resources and encourage students to provide peer feedback?"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many students now carry a mobile device with them to university. How might it be used to create more interactive resources and encourage students to provide peer feedback?</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Headingley"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Headingley</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LEG14</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,3,null,42440]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 11 March 2016</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#7. Online Collaboration"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#7. Online Collaboration</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Looking at the tools available to facilitate, support and encourage collaborative work online."]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking at the tools available to facilitate, support and encourage collaborative work online.</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"City"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">City</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PD401</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-numberformat="[null,5,"dddd\", \"d\" \"mmmm\" \"yyyy",1]" data-sheets-value="[null,3,null,42447]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday, 18 March 2016</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Digital Lunch Club"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Lunch Club</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"#8. OERs and MOOCs"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 100%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#8. OERs and MOOCs</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"OER\u2019s (Open Educational Resources) and MOOC\u2019s (Massive Open Online Courses). How can you use these resources to enhance your own teaching and development?"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: 110%; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OER’s (Open Educational Resources) and MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses). How can you use these resources to enhance your own teaching and development?</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"12.00 - 1.30"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.00 - 1.30</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Headingley"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Headingley</span></td><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Becky"]" style="background-color: #93c47d; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LEG14</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Becky</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-3123690138593556422015-09-14T13:37:00.001+01:002015-09-14T13:38:27.680+01:003D Printing - September's 8th of the Month<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a clever name is <<3D Printing>>. It draws you in, tempting you to believe that this next big thing is readily available at your local PC World.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we may not be too far from that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raf Chaudhry, principal learning officer for AET faculty, lives at the bleeding edge of this, and other, manufacturing technologies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raf led this September's 8th of the Month session on 3D Printing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This gave an interested but essentially inexperienced cross section of staff their first practical experience of 3D printing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a clearer understanding of what is, and what is not, currently practical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://3dprintingindustry.com/2013/02/23/3d-printing-for-education-infographic/" target="_blank">This infographic </a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(from <a href="http://www.onlinedegrees.org/" target="_blank">www.onlindegrees.org</a> )</span> clearly summarises the process...and also outlines potential uses of 3d printing in education.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The products</b></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got an insight into some astonishing current products largely from industries (F1, health, construction, fashion) with significant resources to invest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Equally impressive however were the products of technical enthusiasts, many available for download from sharing websites such as <a href="http://youmagine./">Youmagine.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bit random - and needing guidance in both the design and production - but an example here of a small object, printed in about 10 mins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In connection with this topic, David Smith from Sheffield Hallam University will talk about his use of 3D printed objects in his 'Engaging Lectures' talk on Wed 16 Dec.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Details / for all sessions are available from CLT's <a href="https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/clt-workshop-resources.htm" target="_blank">Events and Resources</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr David Killick has ridden off into the setting sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all wish David the very best of luck in his new and busy life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He will be back with us from time to time in his professional emeritus capacity - sharing his expertise on working with international students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David is now also available as guide and mentor to teams / groups / individuals who would like to get away from it all - and share the company of a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'lifelong lover of hills and mountains'</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll find his contact details </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/davekillickmountainservices/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</a></div>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-79991624193350823552015-07-23T09:41:00.000+01:002015-07-23T09:42:35.524+01:00My public lecture at Queen Mary<br />
Very interesting to give a <a href="http://capd.qmul.ac.uk/what-we-offer/educational-development/teaching-and-learning-events/summer-lecture-series/formal-and-hidden-curricula/" target="_blank">public lecture at Queen Mary University</a>, London on Tuesday. A mixed audience threw in some really challenging thoughts, in particular about how it can be that we are still <i>talking </i>about things like intercultural capabilities after 30 years of talking about them!<br />
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I do believe we have developed a more complex understanding of the kinds of capabilities our graduates will need to lead lives they have reason to value in a globalising world, and some universities are beginning to make changes to curriculum content and delivery to help them become the kinds of people they will need, and we will need, if our futures are to involve dwelling comfortably amidst diversity. However, there is much much more to do, and the urgency for universities to think about their global role is real, and is made more crucial with advances in TNE provision.<br />
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On a personal note, I think I need to work on my 'lecture' style when it is being streamed and recorded - too much pacing!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-38690854908218873802015-07-17T09:37:00.000+01:002015-07-17T09:37:06.305+01:00White Rose Learning Technologist Meeting - 8th July 2015. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the 8th July 2015 CLT at Leeds Beckett hosted the final White Rose Learning Technologist Forum of the academic year. The forum meet once a semester at a location provided by one of the forum members. My team had kindly offered to host this meeting and provide lunch for the members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The forum is made up of learning technologists from across the Yorkshire region, although called learning technologists many of the members have slightly different job titles and perform roles at a range of levels within their institution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This forum welcomed 21 staff from 8 institutions and included one independent consultant. The forums have been themed recently and this one was aimed at CPD and professional recognition, a particularly hot topic in the sector.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The session was led by Graham McElearney</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and Nav Hundal from University of Sheffield. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first part of the session was discussing our roles, how our roles were different to others in our institutions and what skills we needed to do our jobs effectively. Groups fed back to the room and it was very clear that we all did slightly different things even though many of us shared the same job title. There was no consistency on whether it was a central team or at a more localised level of support and work. Also some institutions had no structure and many roles and locations had grown organically through local need and individuals developing and expanding their roles. The skills that we thought were important for our roles were based around soft skills including communication, diplomacy, change managers, adaptability and flexibility. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The summary from this section was that we have a wide range of skills spread across similar but slightly different roles in different parts of an institution. One of our greatest strengths is being an adaptable and diverse community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next we talked about the professional accreditation schemes open to Learning Technologists with focus on HEA fellowships and CMALT (Certified member of the Association of Learning Technologists). It was clear that both had value to the individual during creation of the documentation to reflect on their existing practice and skills. It was felt that the HEA scheme was better understood by academics as they also applied for this scheme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The afternoon progressed with looking at grading scales, how they vary and what the slight changes in wording there was at different levels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The afternoon was finished with suggesting ideas for the next events and possible hosts. The next meeting will be an informal one for those attending ALT-C. As always it was a great meeting with engaging discussion, well worth attending for any learning technologist in the Yorkshire region. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to know more about the group, there is a google community that people can request to join <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102068232062132788451" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-31431039781909498872015-06-30T12:54:00.000+01:002015-06-30T12:54:10.777+01:00The Leeds Beckett 6 week walking challenge. <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kate walked a massive 170,000 steps while at Download Festival and Lyn clocked up some impressive daily totals nearing 30,000 steps dashing about Headingley campus taking photos during the DEAP Learning and Teaching conference. Meanwhile, Georgi and Becky got out and about in Portugal and Cambridge respectively, adding more steps to their totals. I didn’t go anywhere specific, but each week I aimed to raise my total and achieved 200,000 steps in my last week. We all did more walking going to and from our offices each day, but also ended up doing things like jogging on the spot waiting for the kettle to boil, pacing up and down while adverts were on!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First week we were in the vicinity of Andover, Hampshire and surprised to find ourselves in 11<sup>th</sup> position – that was unexpected and delightful. Week two found us skirting Sheffield (although we dropped back to 14<sup>th</sup> position – probably from sitting back on our laurels!). Then onto Scotland and just short of Dunbar – at that stage we were up to 12<sup>th</sup>. The fourth week we were just 20 miles short of John O’Groats and about 10<sup>th</sup> position. The question was what should we do in the last week knowing we had reached our goal? Upon checking we discovered we were in 9<sup>th</sup> position and that spurred us on, determined to remain in the top ten. That was our best ever week when several of us managed to beat our own record of daily steps as we all made a final spurt to the end of the six weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-8710640954896565472015-06-30T11:50:00.000+01:002015-06-30T15:19:41.889+01:00Sheffield Hallam University Learning and Teaching conference 2015<span style="font-size: large;">On the 25th June myself and CLT placement student Kate Hoban took the train to Sheffield, we were invited to attend the Sheffield Hallam learning and teaching conference. The theme of the conference was 'Student engagement in and out of the classroom'. </span><span style="font-size: large;">A copy of the conference programme can be found <a href="https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/ltconference/learning-and-teaching-conference-2015-programme/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a productive & inspiring day! humbled by & grateful 4 everyone's super kind & generous comments <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SHULT15?src=hash">#SHULT15</a> <a href="http://t.co/bg5kg6KuA9">pic.twitter.com/bg5kg6KuA9</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The first keynote was given by Prof. Simon Lancaster from UEA, he talked about making lectures more interactive including the use of e-voting. We used the app <a href="https://responseware.turningtechnologies.com/responseware/" target="_blank">ResponseWare from Turning technologies</a> in the keynote to answer questions. He also demonstrated how it could be used for peer learning, by asking students to justify answers to peers sat next to them. An interesting and interactive keynote that set the tone for the day. It also became clear from the keynote that social media and especially Twitter play an important role at Sheffield Hallam with lots of staff tweeting and the event even trending at one point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The talk focused around the basic tools that Twitter has including hashtags and favoriting. Next was the ways it could be used to engage with students in teaching and learning but also with the wider community. Some of the suggestions included setting a hashtag up for module to share resources and questions. Also setting up a tweet chat with an external guest to allow students to engage with industry, without having to schedule class time and does not require travel from the external. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-26507619320528992852015-05-20T14:34:00.001+01:002015-05-20T14:34:16.442+01:00SEDA Conference on Internationalisation<br />
The two-day SEDA <a href="http://www.seda.ac.uk/events/info/453/keynote_speakers" target="_blank">Conference </a>on Internationalisation of the Curriculum (Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sedaconf?src=hash" target="_blank">#SEDACONF</a>) was a really stimulating and informative event.<br />
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There were some really great examples of innovative work bringing together partner institutions, developing the formal curriculum, and thinking about the effective integration of international students. The role which educational developers have to play in bringing the educational and values-based benefits of internationalisation to the curriculum and learning experiences of all our students cannot be underestimated.<br />
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The <a href="https://prezi.com/fa7hb6of1bp2/internationalisation-from-principles-to-practice/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy" target="_blank">prezi </a>of my keynote is available on line. I am looking forward to following up with many of the interesting colleagues brought together by the event. Thank you <a href="http://www.seda.ac.uk/" target="_blank">SEDA</a>.<br />
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Head of Academic Staff DevelopmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-89124803252446234242015-05-14T09:40:00.001+01:002015-05-14T09:40:21.391+01:00Golden Robes 2015<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hidden Hero:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Course team of the year:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ba (Hons) English Literature</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSc Responsible Tourism Management</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PGDip Youth Work and Community Development</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The special recognition was awarded posthumously to Dr John Hamill who passed away suddenly on 26th December 2014. The award was accepted on his behalf by one of his students.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The awards are a celebration to recognise the wide range of staff who do the very best for Leeds Beckett students. Many of these staff would continue to work tirelessly without little recognition. The event also allows us all to learn from those that are getting it right and share this knowledge and practice wider. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Below is a Storify from the event bringing together some of the tweets about the event and a link to the Students' Union </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152807512265592.1073741861.45501455591&type=1&l=8898092115%20*" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook gallery</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from the night (photos by Adam Shaw). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you to all the students who took the time to nominate a member of staff, to the Students' Union for organising such a great event and finally to all those who were nominated, keep up the good work!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350526744328032425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-65252748151396591762015-04-24T17:00:00.000+01:002015-04-24T17:00:17.156+01:00YEDG Meeting April 2015.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday 14<sup>th</sup> April CLT were pleased to host
the 4<sup>th</sup> meeting of our regional university learning and teaching
network, YEDG (Yorkshire Educational Development Group). In the morning David
Killick and I chaired parallel ‘What’s On Top?’ discussions in our CLT
development room with colleagues from Huddersfield, Leeds, York, York St. John
and Hull Universities. In the afternoon we engaged in a ‘Show and Tell’,
sharing good practice and learning around areas including graduate attributes,
pan-university curriculum development, our UKPSF CPD schemes, and strategies
for engaging staff in disseminating their good practice. We also welcomed a
visiting academic who shared with us details of innovative curriculum
developments being implemented at the University of Utrecht. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-27395917080307866952015-04-24T11:06:00.000+01:002015-04-24T11:06:00.922+01:00Jisc Digifest 2015<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4a203f5a-e5d4-3f53-e692-a8249ecc8b6c" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon and myself attended <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/jisc-digital-festival-2015-09-mar-2015" target="_blank">Jisc Digifest</a> on the 9</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-10</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> March. The event was an opportunity for us to see how Jisc and other university institutions are currently implementing technology within learning & teaching.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/jisc-digital-festival-2015-09-mar-2015" target="_blank">Digifest</a> is the first event like this that I have attended on my placement with <a href="http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/partners/centre-for-learning-and-teaching.htm" target="_blank">CLT </a>and I learnt a lot about what other universities are doing in terms of Digital Literacy in the space of just two days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The event was made up of different keynote speakers and workshops led by professionals and academics in this sector. The sessions ranged in content but were all focused on different ways technology and digital literacy can be enforced in higher education. I attended two keynotes and seven workshops that varied in topics and styles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main elements that I found interest in at the event were regarding mobile learning and bring your own device methods. This is something that I, as a student, would like to be enforced at our University. I can see these elements being beneficial to my learning when I go back into my third year after my placement. I can also see how these methods could potentially be useful other students across the university.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also attended workshops based around how media and television can be used within teaching and learning. What I was being shown were programmes that are very similar to the Beckett media player; this is something that could be utilised more within teaching and learning and somewhere that enables students to use and reference television/film clips royalty-free in their work.</span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02278607632152376050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4308820925739234628.post-53388925057338478402015-04-23T08:30:00.000+01:002015-04-23T11:25:45.454+01:00Reflections on OER15 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last week I presented at OER15, a national conference on Open Education. This year it was in Cardiff and brings together an international audience to present, discuss and debate on all that is "open" in education.<br />
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Last year I wrote a brief <a href="http://blog.digis.im/open-ed/2014430oer-14-a-co-chair-perspective/" target="_blank" title="OER 14 – A Co-Chair Perspective">blog post</a> about co-chairing the conference, OER14. This year I was able to revert back to being a committee member and presenter at OER15!<br />
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I am a passionate Open Educator and I feel a little bit like the OERxx conferences have perhaps come of age. I won't go into the history (you can read a bit about that in last years blog post), but I think it's a conference that has grown and evolved. Initially starting out as a dissemination conduit for the amazing #UKOER work with the first conference in 2010.
2014 was the first year in which the conference was sustained without "funded projects" to guarantee attendees and 2015 has once again shown that the OERxx conference has well and truly established itself as the UK's "go to" conference on Open Education.
Now attracting international speakers and audiences I think it is an important window into the "grass roots" nature of Openness in the UK. The keynotes this year were collectively an excellent example of the diversity of activity taking place in "open".
<a href="https://twitter.com/cgreen" target="_blank" title="Cable Green Twitter">Cable Green</a> kicked off the conference with his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tpl5Lh9JfEg" target="_blank" title="Cable Green OER15 keynote.">keynote</a> and the key message that:
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<a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/failing-to-share-publicly-funded-he-resources-immoral/2019713.article" target="_blank" title="TES Article on Cable Green's Keynote">Failing to share publicly funded HE resources ‘immoral’. </a></h4>
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I think it's hard to argue with this kind of sentiment, why should we not make any materials open that were funded publicly? <a href="https://twitter.com/mweller" target="_blank" title="Martin Weller Twitter">Martin Weller</a> went on to close the conference with his keynote which warned us about <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1790122/pearson-blackboard-and-educations-new-openwashing" target="_blank" title="Open Wasking Article">"Open Washing" </a>whereby a corporation labels their activity as "open" but in fact it's not really. (Read the article linked above for more details).<br />
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To me this indicates that "open" is in fact becoming mainstream and of course we should push back against open-washing, but we could perhaps see it has an indicator that the <a href="http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/detail/11/battle-for-open/" target="_blank" title="M.Weller Battle for Open - Book">"Battle for Open"</a> is being<br />
fought well.
What is important for the open community is that we remain vocal in what "we" really mean by open, and not allow it to become a distorted term.
<a href="https://twitter.com/sheilmcn" target="_blank" title="Sheila's Twitter">Sheila MacNeill</a> gave a personal perspective on what it means to be open. Airing her own washing she talked about us as individuals being the "open resource" and being proud to be open practitioners.<br />
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I can very much align my own experiences to Shelia's, that in fact we are perhaps fighting a battle for open everyday within our institutions. It sometimes doesn't feel like we are winning but I think we are (slowly).
When both the strategic development of open and the front line battle for open comes together you end up with, as an example, the fantastic work being led by <a href="https://twitter.com/josiefraser" target="_blank" title="Josie Twitter">Josie Fraser</a> on the <a href="http://www.digilitleic.com/" target="_blank" title="Digitlit">DigiLit Leicester</a> project. This work is fundamental in embedding the concept of "open" in at the earliest stages of learning and teaching and is important in recognising that it's not just Higher Education who are championing open ed.<br />
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Finally I would just like to say a thank you to those who attended my workshop session. Readers of my blog & tweets will already know that I am developing a <a href="https://www.canvas.net/browse/canvasnet/courses/get-online-get-open" target="_blank" title="GoGO Course">Facilitated Open Online Course</a> (fooc) and I used the OER15 conference as a course development opportunity. What better way to develop and open, online course than to get 20+ experts in open education to be critical friends to your ideas. Even better was that many of them also want to develop and run the course with me.
This for me epitomises what the "open movement" is all about. Collaboration, Sharing, Selflessness, Giving etc etc.
Sheila is right that we should be proud to be Open Practitioners and we should tell everyone that we are and what that means. There is still a scuffle for open and we should keep fighting the cause.<br />
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If you want to find out about Open Education then why not check out the Staff Guide to OER that was developed as part of our work on Open Educational Resources in 2009 and linked below.<br />
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<a href="http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/publications/files/100507_36703_OERGuide_singles-HiRes.pdf">http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/publications/files/100507_36703_OERGuide_singles-HiRes.pdf</a></div>
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