Motivating students and creating community within blended and online learning environments are crucial to academic achievement and success. This open course will provide both theoretical concepts and practical tools for instructors to improve motivation, retention, and engagement within blended and online courses.
Course Objectives:
Have you ever thought about using Twitter to support your students or to keep them updated with your research and news?
The LSE Public Policy Group have put together an excellent guide to Using Twitter suitable for academic staff. Open this Link for more details
Teaching Development Grant Development Workshop 26th
March 2012 at the University of Glamorgan.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/HS_TDGWS_Wales
The aim of this workshop is to increase understanding and applications of bids submitted to the TDG calls, with a view to increasing good quality submissions.
If you are interested in attending this event use the “Book […]
A new era for HE approaches…
Academic staff need to understand how students learn in order to offer more effective opportunities for learning, and now Harvard University are beginning to realise that the traditional lecture /seminar format may not be the most effective way to develop knowledge and understanding!
See this article for more information: […]
The paying student who is not happy with the quality of the open learning resources!
Interesting blog from a Stanford Students experience of the much feted online free content http://pennyhacks.com/2011/12/28/stanford-free-classes-a-review-from-a-stanford-student/
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) Individual Awards 2012 call for nominations opened on the 4th January.
The NTFS 2012 nomination documents and guidance can be downloaded from the HEA website.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ntfs
Please note that the deadline for the submission of nomination documents is 12 noon on Wednesday 21 March 2012. You may also […]
Leeds on 2nd – 4th April 2012.
The theme for 2012 is “Learning Development in a Digital Age: emerging literacies and learning spaces”
Keynote Speakers :
Professor Gráinne Conole Director, Beyond Distance Research Alliance; University of Leicester
Paul Andrews Head of Centre for Digitally Enhanced Learning (CDEL); University of Wales Newport
Call for […]
Practical Tools for Finding OER
15th December 2011 at the British Library
SCORE is hosting an interactive workshop that offers you a guided tour of tools and repositories for Open Educational Resources and a chance to try them out. The workshop focuses on the Librarian perspective and is aimed at enabling you to:
Find and […]
SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference 2012
The Student Journey
17th May – 18th May 2012, Queen Hotel, Chester
Please look at the SEDA website – www.seda.ac.uk – to find all the details you need for submitting a proposal for the SEDA Spring Conference 2012
The closing date for proposals is […]
The Higher Education Academy has recently completed its ‘Teaching International Students’ project.
The output from this project is a series of resources designed to help academic staff understand the challenges that our international students face in living and studying in the UK, and to support us in implementing learning and teaching practices that enable our […]
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