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OER? What's that? Want to know more? This is a great introduction to open educational resources, how to find, use and share free resources.

An interesting look at how educators have used technology over the years.

My winning case study! It illustrates the approach we took to enable a large group of staff to develop the digital skills and knowledge required to confidently deal with a high volume of telephone calls and use software to fill vacant places in Clearing. The group had a mixed skill set and a short amount of time to gain new skills. Using the flipped classroom approach, factual and contextual information was delivered through online activities allowing for the maximum amount of classroom time to be dedicated to gaining practical digital skills. The case study describes what was done, the challenges involved and the solutions we found, impact on the learners and the wider university, and highlights ways this approach can be used at other educational institutions.

Icons depicting educational ideas, all in public domain, great resource

Keeping you up to date with TELT developments in the Schools of Arts & Humanities and Education at Nottingham Trent University

Online community of digital skills development practitioners from UK higher education. Share practice and experience.

Several case studies illustrating approaches to digital skills training in UK Higher Education institutions, compiled by UCISA

This free online SMART Technologies course follows on from our Introduction to Using Whiteboards course and goes into much more detail about the use of the Lesson Activity Toolkit and also gives the learner useful tips and techniques to help with editing and using the application. You will be shown examples of the different templates from image sequencing and matching to timelines and anagrams, and where there is flexibility in the use of an activity such as using the timeline for more than dates. This free online SMART Technologies course will be of great interest to teachers and trainers looking to make full use of the flexibility, interactivity and student participation allowed by an interactive whiteboard within the classroom or training room, and to all learners who would like to learn more about the functionality of interactive whiteboards within an educational setting.

Tips for marking assignments

Article on the importance of Digital Literacy

The value of academic blogging

I'm never been convinced by Facebook as an educational tool, but Facebook groups seems like a way around my objections to separating the social/work issue.

Module by: David Wiley. E-mail the author Summary: A content module's stand-alone pedagogical effectiveness is inversely proportional to its reusability. Because humans make meaning by connecting new information to that which they already know, the meaningfulness of educational content is a function of its context.

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Educational apps inc app of the week, lesson ideas, app tutorials

Research into electronic course templates for use in HE