Tag Archives: Blackboard (VLE)

17Dec/12

Put it on my tab

December 17, 2012Dissemination, Training & resourcesBlackboard (VLE), Centre for the Development of Teaching & Learning (CDoTL), E-Learning Support, E-Learning Team, Guy Pursey, Remedy, Richard Steward, Turnitin, VLE

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.

30Nov/12

Digital Community: Art at Reading launches OSCAR

November 30, 2012Digital community, EmployabilityBlackboard (VLE), Christine Ellison, Department of Art, Facebook, Flickr, Nadja Guggi, Online Studio Community at Reading (OSCAR), OSCAR, Teaching & Learning Development Fund (TLDF), TLDF, VLE

Art at Reading has a new digital platform to connect staff and students. OSCAR, the Online Studio Community at Reading, has been developed to support the vast range of teaching and learning activities thatRead More…

27Nov/12

Show & TEL: Making technology-enhanced learning work in HE

November 27, 2012Dissemination, Meetings & Events, ResearchAudio 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

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 andRead More…

14Nov/12

The sincerest form of flattery

November 14, 2012Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Meetings & Events, Research, Training & resourcesAcademic 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

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 forRead More…

27Oct/12

Hatchpath: University of Reading is launch site for new collaborative software

October 27, 2012Digital community, DisseminationAlastair Culham, Blackboard (VLE), Collaborative platform, Facebook, Hatchpath, iPad, Spark, WikisAlastair Culham

I’ve just stumbled across http://hatchpath.com, a site for student exchange of information on their modules. It seems to have very smooth and intuitive tools for information sharing and strikes me as quiteRead More…

17Oct/12

Using technology to find low-tech solutions

October 17, 2012Training & resourcesAcademic integrity, Academic Misconduct, Academic Writing, Blackboard (VLE), Department of English Literature, Mary Morrissey, Pat Ferguson, Plagiarism, Royal Literary Fund, Student handbook, University of Aberdeen, University of Bristol

Like a lot of people, I do not consider myself particularly savvy about technology: when I find that something is useful to me, I learn how to use it. That said, IRead More…

20Aug/12

‘Sharing Good Practice’ event: Going mobile

August 20, 2012Dissemination, Meetings & Events'Sharing Good Practice' event, Blackboard (VLE), Blackboard Mobile, iPad, iPhone, Richard Mitchell, VLEHelena Bampton

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 theRead More…

16Jan/12

A suggestion for the improvement of Blackboard from one of our students

January 16, 2012Staff-student partnerships, Training & resourcesAlastair Culham, Blackboard (VLE)Alastair Culham

… Via a comment on one of the closed Facebook groups I run. ” It’s a shame that Blackboard doesn’t have a calendar tool that gives us a one page screen shotRead More…

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