Tweet I’m really pleased to announce the Elevate Team are rolling out our first online course, which is offered as an alternative to our face to face workshop, or our unstructured FAQs. This course is based on our Getting Started with Objective Testing, and lasts approximately 3.5 hours, with a week to complete it. On [...]
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Getting started with objective tests in teaching – a 3.5 hour online course
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February 4th, 2013 Would you like to better understand how to enhance your teaching through technology? If yes, this MOOC is for you …
AndyR January 25th, 2013 Tweet If you’d like to better understand how you might enhance your teaching through the better use of technology, the Association of Learning Technologists (ALT) are running a MOOC (Massive open online course) starting in April 2013 which addresses this very question. This course is free and online. To find out more information and to [...]
University of Leeds Casebook: L&T – worth a coffee break
AndyR October 25th, 2011 Tweet One of the activities in my “What can Wolsey do for my teaching” session I run as part of the e-Skills for e-Learning Course is to widen our horizons in terms of how people have been using VLEs in their teaching at other UK HEIs. To do this, I simply pick another UK HEIs [...]
Opportunities for your staff development: JISC Online Events
AndyR October 18th, 2011 Tweet There are a couple of JISC online events coming up which you might find really useful. ——————————————————————- JISC Webnar: Curriculum Design – changing the paradigm 2nd November, FREE see >>> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2011/11/webinarcurriculumdesign ——————————————————————- JISC Online Conference: Learning in Transition 22nd to 25th November 2011, £50 Registration See >>> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference11/programme.aspx Keynote speakers include: David Puttnam, Lord [...]
Advanced eSkills Workshop – Manipulating the Gradebook, Course Statistics and the Dashboard
AaronB May 25th, 2011 Tweet The Elevate Team ran its first workshop session as part of the Advanced eSkills for eLearning initiative for staff at UCS. The session was titled “Manipulating the Gradebook, Course Statistics and the Dashboard to meet your needs”, seven members of staff attended the workshop, which I didn’t think was too bad considering the time [...]
external (netskills) event on blogs and social networking
AndyR March 15th, 2011 Tweet Just a quick heads up for an event on the 23rd March in Birmingham. The JISC Netskills service are running a staff development event on the 23rd March in Birmingham entitled, “community participation with blogs and social networking”. For more information, including prices, see … http://bit.ly/gt3Tvs
Thoughts from objective testing workshop
AndyR February 22nd, 2011 Tweet I ran the last of the Elevate Teams three sessions for the e-skills for e-learning programme, with a workshop on Using objective testing in learning and teaching. This was designed as an introduction, so we looked at what are the characteristics of objective testing, how it might be used, some principles of effective formative [...]
Second Session – Enhancing collaborative and group learning through innovative technologies
AaronB February 17th, 2011 Tweet The Elevate team ran its second workshop through the eskills for eLearning initiative on Monday, this workshop will now work as a stand alone session in the UCS Spring 2011 Staff Development programme. 11 members of staff attended this workshop, all had been at the previous “Getting started with Wolsey” session and were ready [...]
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David Mullett February 8th, 2011 Tweet Yesterday was the first of the Elevate Teams staff development workshops. Around ten attendees arrived and after a brief introduction we got stuck into the first activity, a quick ten minute discussion about what people thought a VLE was and what tasks they would expect it to do. The usual elements cropped up, collaboration, [...]
Staff Development Programme (Nov & Dec 2010)
AndyR November 24th, 2010 Tweet During November and December 2010 the team will be running a number of face to face staff development events. For more information on how to book your place please contact us at wolsey@ucs.ac.uk. Also if you’d like us to run a staff development session for you and colleagues please contact us. Workshops (open to [...]
