Assessment of language learning naturally presents some unique challenges for both teaching staff and learners. Regular practice of both spoken and written language production is a vital part of language training and requires a significant amount of ongoing feedback to support the acquisition of competence in the subject. In a distance learning context in particular, […]
Online Coursework Management Evaluation
The University of Exeter has developed an entirely online end-to-end coursework management system which is the subject of the Online Coursework Management Evaluation (OCME) project funded by JISC as part of the Assessment and Feedback programme Strand B. This system sees the integration of Moodle and Turnitin within the university’s Exeter Learning Environment (ELE). Assignments […]
Evaluating the Benefits of Electronic Assessment Management
Examining the embedding of electronic assessment management (EAM) within both administrative and teaching and learning practice is the main focus of the Evaluating the Benefits of Electronic Assessment Management (EBEAM) project running at the University of Huddersfield as part of the JISC Assessment and Feedback programme Strand B. This 18 month project will look at […]
Big Data and Analytics in Education and Learning
With the growth of the internet, mobile technologies, multimedia, social media and the ever increasing Internet of Things, the data we can mine effectively as well as the types of information we can process from that data are evolving rapidly. In a recent report, McKinsey Global Institute estimated that the amount of data increase globally […]
Managing Relationships across the pond
It may sound like something for Kermit the frog, but no, I am talking about ‘Relationship Management’ and how the work here in the UK has been picked up in the USA. I recently starting working on the JISC Relationship Management programme, which is genuinely a really interesting look at how institutions deal with the […]
The Learning Registry: Rough Guide for Contributors
Update: For clarity, this is a piece of documentation for a specific group rather than a “regular” blog post. It may be of wider interest but it makes a number of contextual assumptions… This document assumes that you have some familiarity with intent of the Learning Registry (LR) http://www.learningregistry.org/ and that you are interested in […]
Can the flipped classroom disrupt the existing lecture-based teaching model in institutions?
HE institutions, from architecture and business to pedagogy and content delivery, have been designed for the classroom-based lecture model. However, rapid technological change now means that lecture capture technology is becoming widely available and lecturers can easily record their presentations so that students may view them anywhere, anytime. Millions of audios and videos of OERs […]
Service Design event
We are running an event on Service Design on Thursday 17th November in Birmingham (Conference Aston venue). This event is open to anyone interested in using service design to improve the student experience in HE and FE. It will focus on the mid to latter stages, i.e. blueprinting and implementation/trialling of improvements. Places are limited, […]
Returning to Libraries and OER
“The responsibility of acquiring books was the libraries and you might therefore think of extending the libraries role to…educational resources in general” (Nikoi, 2010). An introduction to our visiting scholar Gema Bueno de la Fuente and a survey about academic libraries role in OER initiatives.
Business Adopts Archi Modelling Tool
Many technologies and tools in use in universities and colleges are not developed for educational settings. In the classroom particularly teachers have become skilled at applying new technologies such as Twitter to educational tasks. But technology also plays a crucial role behind the scenes in any educational organisation in supporting and managing learning, and like […]