This week 3 members of Digital Learning, Roo Pescod, Dave Pollard and Robert Stillwell headed to Birmingham to attend the 2023 JISC Digifest conference. This year AI is was a prominent theme given the recent hype surrounding chatGPT and the concerns about it’s potential to have significant impact both positively and negatively. There has been … Continue reading “Digifest 2023 – Birmingham”
Overview We’re now 8 weeks into the study block, and from all of us here at the Digital Learning team, we hope that the year has got off to a great start for all of our colleagues. This is just a quick blog post to remind you that we have some excellent additional learning & … Continue reading “Additional Learning & Teaching Applications Now Available to Staff!”
Ed Tech attended Digifest 2019 this week. Run by JISC, this HE/FE conference aimed to “explore the power of digital and look in detail at what next-generation digital students need to thrive”. The impact of machine learning was a recurring theme in the keynote speeches and take-home messages included: to avoid bias, we need to ensure … Continue reading “Ed Tech at Digifest 2019”
In this series of articles, the Educational Technology team will be providing an insight into existing practice using technology for learning and teaching at Falmouth University and also at projects being undertaken within the wider HE sector. In this post, we are focusing on the role of the Learning Technologist in HE. The Association for … Continue reading “A Lens on… Learning Technologists”
Once the festive season arrives thoughts in the team turn to what Santa might be bringing us in our Christmas stockings. We’ve had another busy year and hope we’re all still on the nice list, so Santa please be kind and make a little note of our tech based wishes! This year Mark’s keen to … Continue reading “Dear Geek Santa….”
Monday 5th December sees the launch of our Digital Experience tracker at Falmouth University. With Jisc, we’re joining over a hundred educational providers internationally to benchmark our student digital experience. At Falmouth we’re also offering the opportunity to win an iPad Mini for taking part. Students can fill in the 15 minute survey and forward … Continue reading “Falmouth Digital Experience Tracker”
In this series of articles we’ll be casting our gaze over some examples of practice currently being undertaken at Falmouth University. We work extensively with a variety of subjects and often find that the learning experiences are as diverse as those teaching on the courses. This month we’re focusing on Fine Art within the Falmouth … Continue reading “Falmouth in Focus – Fine Art”
In this series of articles we’ll be casting our gaze over some examples of practice currently being undertaken at Falmouth University. We work extensively with a variety of subjects and often find that the learning experiences are as diverse as those teaching on the courses. This month we’re focusing on Business Entrepreneurship within the Business … Continue reading “Falmouth in Focus – Business Entrepreneurship”
In this series of articles, the Educational Technology team will be providing an insight into existing practice using technology for learning and teaching at Falmouth University and various projects being undertaken within the sector. Play is an essential part of childhood development. Play encourages social, physical, cultural, emotional and mental development and is enshrined in … Continue reading “A Lens on… play for learning”
Educational technology is a vast field, the individuals who work within this area are often as diverse as the topics they cover. From online assessment to user experience, learning design to technology best practice, we work in a diverse environment. Within the University environment there are several ways learning technology practitioners are embedded into an … Continue reading “Importance of collaboration in Educational Technology”