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Category Archives: Meetings & Events
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
Show & TEL: Making technology-enhanced learning work in HE
Neil Morris, author of Study Skills Connected, a new book on using technology to support Teaching & Learning, visited Reading last week to speak about ‘Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education’ as part of our … Continue reading
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Tagged Audio recording, Blackboard (VLE), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Discussion boards, Independent study, Interactive chat, iPad, Julian Park, Lecture capture, Making technology-enhanced learning work for staff and students in Higher Education, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, NMC Horizon Report, Open Educational Resources (OERs), Plymouth University, Social media, Steve Wheeler, Student engagement, Student response systems, Study Skills Connected, Tablet devices, Teaching & Learning Seminar, University of Leeds, Video, VLE
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The sincerest form of flattery
Our Teaching & Learning Showcase Series continued yesterday with a session on ‘Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin’. Turnitin is an online service which allows educators to check students’ work for similarity with other sources as a tool for … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research, Training & resources
Tagged Academic Misconduct, Academic Writing, Blackboard (VLE), Department of English Literature, Helen Hathaway, Institute of Education, Julia Waters, Kim Shahabudin, Mary Morrissey, Nadja Guggi, Orla Kennedy, Plagiarism, Sara Broad, School E-Learning Co-ordinators (SELCs), School of Systems Engineering, Sharing good practice in the use of Turnitin, Sparknotes, Study Advice, Sub-Committee on Academic Misconduct (SCAM), Teaching & Learning Showcase events, The use of Turnitin in Teaching & Learning, Turnitin, University of Reading Library, Virginie Ruiz, What did I do wrong?, Wikipedia
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SEED placements: showcasing success
Last week SEED students were invited to present about their experiences at the SEED Showcase event. The evening was an opportunity for placement supervisors, employers, parents and fellow students to see the kind of things a SEED placement entails. There were … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Meetings & Events, Placement student showcase, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Emily Shaw, George Brewster, Harriet Taylor, James Buller, Kara Swift, Knowledge Transfer Centre (KTC), Opsview, Peter Finnan, Rachel Glover, Seb Lear, Shay Mullineaux, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED)
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Digital literacies for student employability: Spotlight on work placements
Rachel and I were invited to speak at the Teaching & Learning Showcase on ‘Assessing work placements’ here at Reading yesterday. The showcase events are a series of informal lunchtime gatherings which provide an opportunity for colleagues to share T & … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Assessing work placements, Cindy Becker, Department of English Literature, Developing Effective E-Learning: The Development Pyramid, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, Hannah Jones, Helen Beetham, Joy Collier, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, Rhona Sharpe, School of Agriculture Policy and Development, Teaching & Learning Showcase events
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ALT-Conference: The Digital Literacies perspective
Last week was very hectic as I travelled up and down the country to attend two conferences. The first was the Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C) in Manchester. The conference’s objective was to understand how technology can best be … Continue reading
‘Sharing Good Practice’ event: Going mobile
The Digitally Ready event was a wonderful chance to meet Blackboard Learn users and to show them how they could access the service through their tablets and smart phones by using the Blackboard Mobile Learn app. This feature is one … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Sharing Good Practice' event, Blackboard (VLE), Blackboard Mobile, iPad, iPhone, Richard Mitchell, VLE
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Fellowship for people who use software
The announcement below just popped in to my inbox and I thought it might be of interest to Digitally Ready folks: The Software Sustainability Institute (www.software.ac.uk) has launched a Fellowship programme that recognises outstanding UK-based researchers who use software. The Fellowships come … Continue reading
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