This year, I had the opportunity alongside two colleagues from our Ed.Tech and wider ICT team to attend the Association for Learning Technologies conference. ALT are a professional network of those interested in Ed. Tech. across all areas of education. I captured my experience on Twitter and by making notes in our team’s slack channel … Continue reading “#AltC 2016”
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. Some of our previous articles have looked at Assessment, Creative Education and Learning analytics. With September comes the … Continue reading “A lens on…Digital Identity”
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 Fashion Photography within the Fashion … Continue reading “Falmouth in Focus – Fashion Photography”
Over previous years we’ve collected information and blogged about the apps that students have found useful to help with their study at Falmouth University. Now its the turn of the staff, we frequently hear of apps that professional services and academic members of staff have found helpful with their support of students. We formally collect … Continue reading “Staff Recommended Apps”
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending the day with Head of Business School, Jeremy Richards to go through the course design process for one of the modules on the new Leasing and Asset Finance, MA. This kind of course design can be described as a course or learning design retreat. … Continue reading “Course Design in practice”
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 it’s … Continue reading “Summer Housekeeping”
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 Professional Practice sessions, that run … Continue reading “Falmouth in Focus – Professional Practice”
It’s that time of year again where the Falmouth PGCHE is nearly at an end, and its Summer School takes place. The week long timetable consists of workshops, practical sessions and activities for the participants. Last week EdTech were invited to contribute for a day in a similar way as last year. The day was … Continue reading “PGCHE Summer School”
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) published by the department for Business, Innovation and Skills aims to ensure that teaching standards are maintained at a consistently high level in HE. The TEF has been criticised for the metrics based approach (NSS scores, employability statistics and continuation rates) to defining teaching excellence, and even though those criticisms … Continue reading “A lens on… TEF”
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 Creative Advertising within the School … Continue reading “Falmouth in Focus: Creative Advertising”