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Monthly Archives: December 2012
I-TUTOR: Intelligent Tutoring for Life Long Learning
The University of Reading is a project partner in a prestigious project to develop a multi-agent based intelligent tutoring system to support online teachers, trainers, tutors and learners: I-TUTOR. I-TUTOR, which stands for Intelligent Tutoring for Lifelong Learning is to be applied in … Continue reading
University and Facebook
Student communication channels was one of the areas investigated by the ‘Enhancing Student Engagement in Curriculum Development’ project undertaken here at Reading. The initiative, funded by the University’s Teaching & Learning Development Fund (TLDF), was directed by Matthew Almond, Director … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination
Tagged Blackboard (VLE), Email, Enhancing Student Engagement in Curriculum Development, Facebook, Gemma Allen, Joy Collier, Matthew Almond, Nadja Guggi, Peter Kruschwitz, Philip Smither, School of Chemistry Food and Pharmacy, Social media for student engagement, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, VLE
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Digital Digest: Your guide to all things digital around the University
This week has seen the launch of our brand new collaborative e-newsletter, Digital Digest. Every month, we’ll be bringing you the latest news and comment about all things digital happening around the University. The first issue brings you our digital … Continue reading
Student experiences with digital literacies
Last week, the Digitally Ready team here at Reading invited staff to a workshop on ‘Students’ experiences with placements and opportunities for developing their digital literacies at the University’. Some 20 colleagues from academic and service departments across the University … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Blackboard (VLE), Clive Young, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs), Stefanie Anyadi, The Digital Department, University College London, VLE, Workshop
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Poll Everywhere: would you rather be attacked by one horse-sized duck or a herd of duck-sized horses?
Anyone standing in front of a crowd of student might be familiar with a mix of expectant and sleepy faces staring stoically ahead – their gaze occasionally brightened by the latest notification on their portable devices that life and imponderables, … Continue reading
Put it on my tab
For the New Year, we’ve re-launched the e-Learning Support area on Blackboard. We, in the e-Learning Team, have been trying to address the way we provide support for a while.
The opportunity to work with the Digitally Ready team
The Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies (EEB) Framework and our work in Creating a Global Agenda in the Biosciences and the Internationalisation Change Programme (ICP) , have recently enabled us to work with the Digitally Ready team. Via the small project … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships
Tagged Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies (EEB) Framework, International Change Programme (ICP), Internationalisation, Katerina Lazidou, Student employability, Student engagement, Tee Nadan, VLE
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Flexible learning
I’m a massive fan of our Teaching & Learning Showcase events – informal, bring-your-own-lunch gatherings with three speakers presenting on a topical issue and plenty of discussions, questions, sharing of ideas and experiences – so I was sad to miss … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Meetings & Events
Tagged Anupam Nanda, Blended learning, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Flexible Learning, Food Advanced Training Partnership (ATP), Nadja Guggi, Richard Frazier, School of Biological Sciences, School of Real Estate & Planning, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, Tee Nadan
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Digitally Ready for 2013
In attempting to write this blog post to sum up what 2012 has meant for Digitally Ready, the JISC-funded project here at the University of Reading to support staff and students in their use of digital technologies, I quickly found … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Staff-student partnerships, Training & resources, Work/Academic placements
Tagged 'Sharing Good Practice' event, Academic Practice Programme (APP), Centre for Staff Training and Development (CSTD), Digital Development Forum (DDF), Digital Development Team, Julian Park, Letters to Santa, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, Rachel Glover, Sir David Bell KCB, Teaching & Learning Showcase events
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Placements: Partnership with industry
Recently the School of Construction Management and Engineering (SCME) held a half-day workshop on ‘Industrial Partnership Companies and SCME’ to showcase their placement students. The workshop included presentations from four Part 3 students that had been on placement over the … Continue reading