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Nigel Robertson

https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/resources/here_project_toolkit.pdf - 1 views

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    HERE Project Toolkit - A resource for teams responsible for improving student engagement and retention.
Nigel Robertson

ePortfolios & Open Badges Maturity Matrix | - 0 views

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    Potentially important piece of work around eportfolio maturity and a framework for future development / improvement.
Nigel Robertson

LearnHigher - LearnHigher Home - 0 views

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    Lots of resources for students and staff. "LearnHigher - Excellence in Learning DevelopmentThe LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is a partnership of 16 Universities, led by Liverpool Hope University, committed to improving student learning through providing excellent resources to support students' learning development, and through practice-led research to inform the effective use of those resources. Our resources below in 20 Learning Areas are freely available to all."
Nigel Robertson

Moodle benchmarking scheme - 1 views

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    A UK FE college brings in graded standards to improve the quality of its courses.  Based in Moodle and uses some automated system. 
Stephen Harlow

Online vs. Face-to-Face Throwdown: Good Teaching Transcends Course Format - 1 views

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    "Shibley talked about how the online classroom differs from the traditional face-to-face classroom, and suggested strategies for capitalizing on those differences to improve student learning."
Nigel Robertson

WebTools4u2use » Webtools4U2Use - 0 views

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    The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used,
Nigel Robertson

A vision for the future: Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness o... - 1 views

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    Tony Bates talks about problems that unis have and where technology can help / change.
Nigel Robertson

Barriers to change: Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the... - 0 views

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    3rd part of Barriers to Change by Tony Bates
Stephen Harlow

Fortnightly Mailing: "Data is not the plural of anecdote". Eric Mazur talks about how t... - 1 views

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    "...a long video from November 2009 in which Eric Mazur, who teaches physics at Harvard, describes the main innovations he has made in how he runs his courses - and the painstaking empirical research that he has used to guide these changes. "
Stephen Harlow

NCAT Homepage - 0 views

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    "NCAT is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the effective use of information technology to improve student learning outcomes and reduce the cost of higher education."
Stephen Harlow

Informative Workspaces: Using White Boards to Increase Productivity and Build Trust - 0 views

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    "A "whiteboard culture" helps teams collaborate, improves the development and testing process, and - oh yeah - also secures long term savings."--Ahh so this is why there is a whiteboard behind me!
Nigel Robertson

Hideous fonts may boost reading comprehension - Laura Miller - Salon.com - 0 views

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    Interesting article reporting an academic paper which suggests that forcing cognitive overload through the use of 'bad' font choices can actually improve comprehension. Make it hard to read and you are forced to concentrate on it rather than it slipping off your braincells. 
Nigel Robertson

Project update February | RISE - 0 views

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    Recommendations to improve search experience - an OU project using library logs - eg "Other students on your course are also searching for ..."  At an early stage but worth watching.
Nigel Robertson

Extra Credits : Gamifying Education - 1 views

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    Using game design techniques to improve academic engagement.
Nigel Robertson

5 Years of Moodle at the University of Sussex « Moodlemoot 2011 - 0 views

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    Most tasks our users perform in Moodle they also carry out with other applications or websites, but the workflow patterns they need to learn in order to use Moodle are unfamiliar to them. By tweaking these Moodle patterns to be more similar to those used by other websites we find we are often able to improve our users' experience of Moodle.
Stephen Harlow

Blog U.: On Lecture Capture and Course Quality - Technology and Learning - Inside Highe... - 0 views

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    "I'm convinced, however, that lecture capture is a fundamental enabling and catalyzing technology for improving learning (and may be a tool to open access and drive down costs as well)."
Stephen Harlow

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "In a nutshell: schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut budgets and lay off teachers, with little proof that this approach is improving basic learning."
Nigel Robertson

BigBlueButton Blog: BigBlueButton 0.8-beta released! - 0 views

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    Recording of sessions Playback of recordings in HTML 5 Improved Audio (lower latency) Integration with Matterhorn (open source lecture capture management)
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