Digitally Ready

I-TUTOR: Intelligent Tutoring for Life Long Learning

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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 open source learning environments, and will monitor, track, analyze and give formative assessment and feedback to students within the learning environment while giving input to tutors and teachers involved in distance learning to enhance their role during the process of teaching. Find out more on the project blog and website at http://www.intelligent-tutor.eu. Continue reading →

Posted in Training & resources | Tagged Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Eden, Intelligent Tutoring for Life Long Learning (I-TUTOR), ITEC, Karsten Lundqvist, Militos, Nadja Guggi, School of Systems Engineering, University of Macerata, University of Palermo | 2 Comments

University and Facebook

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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 of Teaching & Learning in the School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, and supported by a student working group, Student Engagement Champion Joy Collier, and Digitally Ready. 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 | 1 Comment

Digital Digest: Your guide to all things digital around the University

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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 highlights of 2012. But to make this newsletter a success, we need your input. Here’s a list of topics for future issues which we already know you are interested in:

Screencasting/podcasting
Endnote
Blogs and social media
E-books
QR codes
Copyright
Diary management
Digital photography
CMS
Google Docs

If you are working on anything interesting that you would like to share, or if you would like to suggest a topic, get in touch via digitaldigest@reading.ac.uk.

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Student experiences with digital literacies

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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 attended.

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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 | Leave a comment

Poll Everywhere: would you rather be attacked by one horse-sized duck or a herd of duck-sized horses?

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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, after all, take place elsewhere, with others. In an attempt to tap into the digital highway that connects students (and staff) with each other and the world, the Department of Economics here at Reading organized a live debate for and with Part 1 students. Continue reading →

Posted in Dissemination, Small project funding scheme | Tagged Andi Nygaard, Audience response system, Department of Economics, Guy Pursey, Poll Everywhere, Simon Burke, Student response systems | Leave a comment

Put it on my tab

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Guy

The new area might help us “get on a roll” with tickets we receive.

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. Continue reading →

Posted in Dissemination, Training & resources | Tagged Blackboard (VLE), Centre for the Development of Teaching & Learning (CDoTL), E-Learning Support, E-Learning Team, Guy Pursey, Remedy, Richard Steward, Turnitin, VLE | Leave a comment

The opportunity to work with the Digitally Ready team

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Tee Nadan

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 funding call, advertised in November by the DR team, we have been successful in securing three small funds to further the development of on-line tools, information and workshops leading to more globally focused graduates – helping to provide them with the right skills, outlook and confidence to compete and work globally in their chosen science. Katerina Lazidou (a 2^nd year PhD student), will be working with us on this project and will help lead and develop student-led activities and forums. Sam Holton, our summer 2012 UROP student, will continue his works on the blended learning framework.

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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 | Leave a comment

Flexible learning

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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 last week’s session on ‘Flexible learning’. I was there in spirit though, and, luckily, one of my colleagues recorded the event – short individual clips are linked from the speakers’ names below. 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 | Leave a comment

Digitally Ready for 2013

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Nadja Guggi

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 myself resorting to clichés of ‘journeys’ and ‘coming home’. Describing to a colleague what overarching message I was trying to get across apparently put him in mind of a flock of birds migrating south for the winter before returning home – a rather gentle metaphor for an action-packed year, but one that has grown on me. 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 | Leave a comment

Placements: Partnership with industry

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Rachel Glover

Students and employers at the SCME placement workshop

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 summer as part of the School’s Career Development module. Every student created a poster that explained their role on placement and how it fitted into the company’s wider aims. The event was the first of its kind within the University. Continue reading →

Posted in Employability, Meetings & Events, Placement student showcase, Research | Tagged Emmanuel Essah, Rachel Glover, Research, School of Construction Management and Engineering, Student employability, Tim Lees | Leave a comment