ELEVATE@UCS

Tweet The video (3 mins) is part of our In Discussion with Series. Which aims to share practice in how lecturers have been using appropriate technologies to enhance their teaching, assessment and the student learning experience. This discussion is with Rachel Heathershaw (Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery), around how she has [...]

Tweet The Elevate Team have been helping course teams and lecturers answer the question, where to start when thinking about a distance learning course? We address this in a number of ways, however, the starting point is the coffee conversation where we’ll try to tease out some ideas around your vision, experience and the principles for [...]

Tweet The three teams within Learning Resources (Elevate, Learning Development and the Library) are redesigning their staff and student support package in line with the changing and growing needs of staff and students. The new approach will be based on problems or common scenarios which people encounter and would like help. For instance, how can [...]

Tweet We are in the process of putting the finishing touches to the UK wide Augmented Reality in Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group (http://moodle.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=216). This is aimed at all educational sectors and is a place to share ideas and experiences to help us all fathom out, what does augmented reality offer educators as a [...]

Tweet The following video was created by Aaron as part of a wider series which focusses on highlighting the enhanced tools we’ll be expecting in the LearnUCS Summer 2013 upgrade. We think the inline feedback facility is a really important development as it allows staff to annotate a piece of student work through the web [...]

Tweet The Elevate Team have been exploring the use of iPads (tablets) to encourage lecturers to create more multimedia content for use in their teaching, learning and assessment models. Multimedia (video or audio) offer a rich teaching medium, however, there has always been a barrier for staff to be able to quickly create multimedia content, [...]

Tweet It’s alway difficult guessing future learning technologies. However, one which is gathering interest across the sector is augmented reality. As a learning technology it offers significantly more than QR Codes. Its importance is evident as it has quickly entered Gartner’s trough of disillusionment (http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/10/gartner-hype-cycle-2012/), after which technologies will broaden in appeal, mature and embed. [...]

Tweet I ran the Getting started with Mahara workshop this morning. The slides are available from: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fA8moqJCP_GS1EHIlEyK79YeU8dLEYH0RpEUwhZsJpo/edit?usp=sharing Some interesting applications were discussed around use for reflective practitioners. In particular, the need for a private reflective space for dissertations which can be shared with a persons supervisor. If you need such a reflective space, where you [...]

Tweet We hosted the first meeting between the e-Learning Teams at University of Essex, University of East Anglia and UCS on Friday 8th March. The intention was to start sharing experiences, approaches and ideas across the e-learning teams within the region to allow us all to learn from each other and transfer ideas back to [...]

Tweet The stats for Mahara has picked up slightly over the month of February, mainly because it is introduced to students during February inductions. Currently working on ways to sustain the interest of students after they have initially investigated the Mahara service. After reading the Jisc – Crossing the Threshold document supplementing the info kit, we’ve started [...]