Tweet UCS (via the Elevate Team) hosted the JISC RSC Eastern e-Learning Forum on Friday 17th May. This had representatives from all over the Eastern Region and across educational sectors. There were a number of presentations, one of particular interest was the new version of Xerte. This is important as it’s one of the key [...]
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Limited Elevate Support – Friday 8th June
David Mullett 
June 7th, 2012 Tweet The Elevate Team will be running a limited support structure on Friday the 8th June, due to annual leave and visits to the Higher Education Academy workshop around managing the online assessment and feedback process from an institutional perspective, support will be limited to E-Mails only. We will endeavour to pick up any urgent support requests [...]
Location Aware Workshop for JISC RSC Eastern
AndyR May 17th, 2012 Tweet I’m just following up on the location aware learning activity workshop we (Elevate Team) at UCS ran with the JISC RSC Eastern on 9th May. This all day workshop involved using low threshold applications, QR Codes and Augmented Reality (Aurasma) to develop a set of location aware learning activities. It was pitched at the [...]
Tags: Using an iPad with iAnnotate for e-feedback – proof of concept study shows promise
AndyR April 4th, 2012 Tweet Over the 2011/12 academic year, the Elevate Team have been working with School of Science Technology & Health, and Academic Services to explore the use of media tablets (mainly iPads) with staff. The small scale pilot focused on identifying the role of the Media Tablet (mainly iPad) in enhancing current practice around e-feedback. The [...]
What happened at JISC RSC Eastern’s e-assessment showcase?
AndyR April 2nd, 2012 Tweet I attended (and presented) at the JISC RSC Eastern e-assessment showcase on Friday 30th April, at Hertford Regional College. My session was entitled “Enhancing the e-assessment process in a mobile world: Some developments from University Campus Suffolk“, where I talked through a number of pilot studies from the iPad in the hands of the [...]
Getting started with e-books: Online Surgery & UCS involvement
AndyR February 22nd, 2012 Tweet JISC Digital Media are running an online surgery on the topic of getting started with e-books (http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/surgery/) on the 22nd January, 1.00 to 2.00. I will be presenting at this session, on e-books & e-learning: trying to bring them together - the slides are available below. The thrust of the session will outline a collaborative [...]
Using QR Codes in Higher Education
AndyR February 1st, 2012 Tweet I was recently an invited speaker at a Higher Education Academy sponsored workshop run by a team at Bournemouth University (a big thank you to David Hopkins – http://twitter.com/hopkinsdavid). I was there to share our experiences of QR Code based location aware learning activities, and talk through some of the developments at UCS. The [...]
Out and About: Aaron at RSC Eastern eLearning Forum
AaronB October 12th, 2011 Tweet I spent Friday 7th October at The Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge attending the JISC RSC Eastern eLearning Forum. I was really looking to the event as the programme looked really interesting, I was especially interested in the Focus on Augmented Reality (AR) by University of Exeter, as this is an area that we [...]
What is the Future of Technology in Education?
AndyR October 12th, 2011 Tweet Great question, no clear answer. However, you can find out more by watching the presentations at this years Future of Technology in Education event at ULCC. The recordings and other suff is available from: http://fote-conference.com/wordpress/ A key message for us (the Elevate Team) is to work with others at UCS to ensure our learning [...]
Great Yarmouth: Technology enhanced feedback and assessment workshop
AndyR July 19th, 2011 Tweet As part of Great Yarmouth’s HE Conference, I ran a workshop (18th July) on using technology to enhance feedback and assessment workshop. The slides are linked below. I thought the session went well, and let them decide on the focus. They decided to spend the time looking at e-submission, e-grading/e-return and e-feedback. We did [...]
