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Category Archives: Dissemination
Getting it right: our new PGCAP
Here in the Centre for Staff Training & Development (CSTD) at Reading we’ve been working for some time behind the scenes to design a new Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) to replace our current programme in 2013-14. The new … Continue reading
From paper (lots of it) to pixels
A distinguishing feature of the BA programme in Typography are the professional assignments we run with external clients – our Real Jobs scheme. These ‘in-house placements’ allow inexperienced students to deal with professional work in a staged and supervised way, … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Employability, Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Gerry Leonidas, Jake Giltsoff, Real Jobs scheme, Rob Banham, Robbie Sterlini, WordPress
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Art studio network: Students take the wheel
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.” (John Dewey) A few months ago I contributed a blog post here about OSCAR, the Online … Continue reading
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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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
New Teaching & Learning Showcase series
We are kicking off the new year with another round of Teaching & Learning Showcase events here at Reading, starting next week with a session on the ‘Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning’. Join us on Tuesday 22 January … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Small project funding scheme
Tagged Augmented Reality (AR), Closing the feedback loop, David Nutt, Department of Chemistry, Department of Classics, Digital modelling, Flipped classroom, Inclusive practices in teaching learning and assessment, Matthew Nicholls, Milan Radosavljevic, Nadja Guggi, Orla Kennedy, School of Construction Management and Engineering, Teaching & Learning Showcase events, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP), Use of technologies in Teaching & Learning
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Enhancing Fieldwork Learning
The University of Reading is part of a three-year Higher Education Academy (HEA)-funded project considering the use of technology in fieldwork to enhance student learning: Enhancing Fieldwork Learning. The project team, which includes Alice Mauchline and Julian Park from the School … Continue reading