A Lens on… Open Education

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. Our first looked at the process of Feedback and our second looks at Open Education. The term ‘Open … Continue reading “A Lens on… Open Education”

Digital Skills Report

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”

Tools to support research: part 2

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”

Jisc Digital Student Project

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”

Educational Technology Trends for 2015

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”

FOTE 2014

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”