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”
Scrivener I never quite appreciated the phrase ‘lengthy document’ until I started trying to draft part of my thesis. I’ve always felt pretty confident with academic writing and structuring but suddenly I was no longer looking at putting together a long essay or dissertation but an 80,000 word beast! Scrivener has allowed me to bring … Continue reading “Tools to support research: part 2”
In this series, 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.Our first installment looks at the process of Feedback. Feedback is a process that aids learning based on a dialogue about … Continue reading “A Lens On… Feedback”
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”
Season’s greetings one and all. As the Ed. tech team finish the washing up and recycle the wrapping paper (providing we’ve all been good this year), we take a little time out to reflect upon last year and predict what’s on the way for Educational Technology in 2015. In 2014, we predicted technology would enable … Continue reading “Educational Technology Trends for 2015”
The 6th Annual Future of Technology in Education Conference, hosted at University of London provided the ET team with an opportunity to connect with other learning and IT professionals working in Higher Education. Themes centred around Women In Technology, Co-Creation in Learning, Collaboration between ET and IT and Digital Learners. After registration and welcome, Samantha … Continue reading “FOTE 2014”
The metaphorical truck of Educational Technology careered into Falmouth University’s, Exchange Building today; with Damien, Mark and Oliver in the front seat presenting staff with tea, cakes, festive cheer and the opportunity to find out more about the state of the art within Educational Technology and what lies ahead. Some really interesting and engaging discussions … Continue reading “Educational Technology Roadshow”
Though I would advocate face to face meeting in physical space to help form supportive Communities Of Practice (Lave & Wenger), I’ve been thinking about how these communities can easily move in and out of online/virtual space and that through development of technology there seems to be less and less distinction between the two. I … Continue reading “A new breed of online collaborative tools”