Online exhibitions using Journal – a case study of the Miniatures showcase
Screenshot from the Miniatures showcase 2023 In response to multiple requests during the pandemic the Digital Learning Team developed a reusable template to facilitate exhibitions which has continued to be popular with staff and students thanks to its clean layout and...
Digifest 2023 – Birmingham
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...
Educational blogging for Falmouth’s fully online Students
Falmouth Journal Falmouth University is going through a period of rapid growth, by significantly increasing the amount of online degrees that we offer to students. This offer already includes an impressive variety of creative courses including degrees in Visual...
Using MURAL for peer review
Last year the Digital Learning team designed and published a peer review template for MURAL education users. Designed to facilitate collaborative peer to peer feedback, the template can be used to facilitate peer review activities in online sessions and face-to-face...
Common pitfalls for staff using Learning Space
Lecturers are expected to create content on VLEs such as moodle, sometimes with no training in technicalities or design (be it graphic or instructional). Below are some pitfalls noted while dealing with helpdesk queries relating to Falmouth University’s VLE, Learning...
Collaboration via Learning Space
In this article, Digital Learning takes a look at a shared space within the Learning Space built for the School of Film and TV. Collaborative learning will not be unfamiliar to our students, indeed it’s built into the curriculum in ways students will recognise such as...
Keeping Connected – Developing distributed team working practices
As a relatively new arrival to the team (3 months in) I felt it might be good for me to share and briefly discuss this article capturing the excellent work that has gone on at Falmouth developing an excellent environment for online working. Having had mixed...
MURAL: Digital Learning’s top tips for facilitation
As we reflect on a successful roll out of MURAL across all 9 departments, we continue our series of posts with our practical top-tips for facilitation. 1. Start simple MURAL has brilliant functions for slick facilitation and media-rich contributions from students and...
5 Things We Learned From Meeting MURAL
A few weeks ago we invited all of our colleagues at Falmouth University to an event presented by the team behind MURAL. For those not in the know, MURAL is a digital tool that enables collaboration online between staff and students. It allows users to easily share...
An Exciting Opportunity to Meet MURAL
In this post we’d like to bring your attention to an exciting MURAL opportunity available to all Falmouth University staff. It’s been over 4 months since the Digital Learning team first introduced MURAL as a teaching and learning tool to staff at Falmouth....