Friday, 20 May 2016

Don’t You Know Who I Am?

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The Importance of Utilising the Expertise from the Department When Creating Online Courses. As a civic university, it is essential that...

British Council Korea GREAT Britain Visit

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In late October 2015, the University of Sheffield’s Online Learning Team was delighted to host a delegation of South Korean MOOC enthusia...
Tuesday, 10 May 2016

New Features in Google Slides - Live Q&A and laser pointer

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Google announced last week that it was sprucing up its features with Live Question and Answer and laser pointer functionality now added to G...
Thursday, 21 April 2016

PebblePad V5 demo

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Matthew Wheeler from PebblePad visited the University this week to demo the new version (v5) to users across the institution. The bigges...
Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Blackboard Drive

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Blackboard Drive A quick post in praise of the little used blackboard drive connect tool. As many of you may know, this allows yo...
Tuesday, 22 December 2015

20 Tips to get more from Google Apps in Education tools

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I was asked to deliver two Bite Size sessions, well it's been a while, on Google Apps. The first one was delivered for the Faculty of Me...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015

How Learners on an English Literature MOOC Prompted Academics to Engage in Social Media in a Way They Had Never Before

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On 18 December 2015, Sheffield Hallam University hosted its inaugural Social Media in Higher Education  Conference. Ahead of that event, La...
Monday, 16 November 2015

The Jisc pilot group on Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA)

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I was kindly invited by Jisc to their EMA pilot group in Central London on the 27th October, in a building set just a smidge back from the r...
Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Free course on Measuring and Valuing Health (PROMS and QALYs)

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The University of Sheffield has developed a number of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) over the last 2 years, delivered via the FutureLe...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015

5 Must-Have Peripherals for your Tablet Device

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There are an increasing array of mobile apps and technologies that learning technologists, teachers and academics can use within the insti...