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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Changing the Learning Landscape at Reading
Vice-Chancellor Sir David Bell has been hosting his fourth series of talks to staff here at Reading, inviting one of the University’s senior managers to provide a short update on their area of responsibility at each event following his own … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Meetings & Events
Tagged Association for Learning Technology (ALT), Changing the Learning Landscape, Futurelearn, Gavin Brooks, Higher Education Academy (HEA), Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), National Union of Students (NUS), Sir David Bell KCB, Teaching and Learning at Reading: responding to the rapidly changing landscape of HE, TEL Strategy Group
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Pharmacy students and e-books: an update
In my September blog post, ‘E-books and students: an uneasy relationship?’, I introduced my study into e-books usage by Pharmacy students, funded by Digitally Ready. The project is now well underway. An online survey on the usage and awareness of e-books, … Continue reading
Academic publishing and interviewing: first steps
I took my first steps into the world of academic writing and publishing last week when my supervisor informed me that we are going to submit my work on the Modular Training for Industry project in an appropriate journal. I … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Internationalisation, Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies (EEB) Framework, Kimberley Watson, Modular Training for Industry, Sam Holton, School of Biological Sciences, Sir David Bell KCB, Steven Mithen, Tee Nadan, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP), University of Hong Kong
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Digital Digest: Spotlight on video
We are delighted to bring you the second issue of Digital Digest, our collaborative newsletter on all things digital happening around the University. Mobile video and YouTube are increasingly part of our day-to-day lives, and open up new ways of … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Video
Tagged Alison Fabian, ASSET, Digital Digest, Luke Micallef, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, Pete Castle, Tee Nadan, Video, Video feedback, YouTube
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Making sense: digital modelling and flipped classroom
http://youtu.be/pMqNy6_Knbs ‘Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning’ proved a hot topic for over 40 staff here at Reading who joined us for another session in our popular Teaching & Learning Showcase series, to hear from three colleagues who are … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Meetings & Events
Tagged Augmented Reality (AR), Building Information Modelling (BIM), Closing the feedback loop, David Nutt, Digital modelling, Flipped classroom, Matthew Nicholls, Milan Radosavljevic, Nadja Guggi, School of Construction Management and Engineering, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning
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Moving forward through video feedback
Ever since Neil Morris’ research seminar in November on ‘Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education’, his name has been cropping up again and again in my conversations with staff here at Reading. At the time … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Video
Tagged ASSET, Audio recording, Blackboard (VLE), Clare Furneaux, Department of Classics, Feed forward, JISC, Julian Park, Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education, Matthew Nicholls, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, Video, Video feedback, VLE
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Interactive sculptures: Squishy circuits
Digitally Ready is supporting Sensory Objects, a three-year AHRC-funded research project which explores the potential of newly developed easy-to-use electronics in making the experience of members of the user-group more vital and meaningful when accessing heritage sites. The project consists of … Continue reading
Students like live lectures … and online ones as backup
The University of Reading is part of a JISC-funded project considering museum ethics, display design and object-based research, Object-based Learning for Higher Education (OBL4HE). As part of the project, Rebecca Reynolds, Visiting Lecturer in Museum Studies at Reading’s Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), has … Continue reading