Last month saw Bett 2016 touch down at the London Excel centre for four days of learning technology talks, demonstrations and seminars. A staple in the ed tech calendar Bett is vast and one of the largest shows of it’s kind. This years speakers included Sugata Mitra, Salman Khan and Secretary of State for Education … Continue reading “Bett Show 2016”
Last month, as part of a craft of writing session, English and Writing students were invited to contribute to their lecture via twitter. Including a real time conversational element to the lecture seemed apt given that the nature of the session was dialogue. Prior to the lecture students were emailed a hashtag and invited to … Continue reading “Dialogue with Twitter”
Educational Technology were recently invited to host a session as part of the Lunch and Talk series. In this session we discussed current initiatives we are working on as well as a brief summary of the last academic year. We finished the session with a mapping activity. We wanted to get participants thinking about learning … Continue reading “Mapping Experience, Expectations and CPD”
The beginning of July is synonymous with Falmouth University’s PGCHE Summer School; this week long event marks the final stage of the course and is an enjoyable few days for those taking part. Workshops, practical sessions and activities make up the timetable for the week, visits to Tate St Ives and the Foundation Art Studios … Continue reading “PGCHE Summer School”
Billed as a list which depicts “the smartest and savviest bloggers in Higher Education” the Dean’s list is an annual compilation of Educational Technology blogs from around the world. The 2015 list features many well known and respected blogs and we’re chuffed to be included, thank you EdTech Higher Ed! “The technology team at Falmouth … Continue reading “We made the list! EdTech’s Must-Read Higher Ed IT Blogs”
As the end of another academic year draws to a close it’s the perfect time to reflect on another years worth of teaching and perform some housekeeping on your learning environment module areas. In the course of the year external links to other areas may have changed and assignment briefs might have altered so … Continue reading “Summer Housekeeping: Learning Space”
February marked the publication of the digital skills report from the House of Lords; Make or Break: The UK’s Digital Future. Presented as a call to action for the next government the report aimed “to consider and report on information and communications technology, competitiveness and skills in the United Kingdom”. Education featured highly within the … Continue reading “Digital Skills Report”
As a team we’re often asked to attend sessions and give an overview of Educational Technology and how it can be used to support teaching within higher education. Instead of diving straight in with gadgets and apps a good introduction to ed tech is to look at the learners themselves and their experiences. Students coming from … Continue reading “Jisc Digital Student Project”
Last Thursday saw Mark, Steph and myself don our finest and head out to the annual Staff Excellence Awards. We were fortunate enough to have been shortlisted for the Exceptional Contribution to the Student Experience award. As a team we are really proud to be nominated for this award. Student experience is at the heart of … Continue reading “Falmouth Staff Excellence Awards Evening”