Starting the new year with another podcast.
Category: Learning, teaching and web services
moocs and microcredentials
Starting the new year with a podcast.
THE podcast: microcredentials are knocking. Will higher education answer? | THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect (timeshighereducation.com)
improving accessibility
Every year we take a snapshot of accessibility in our VLE. Over the summer 3,508 documents across 1,441 courses from across the University were reviewed against a defined selection of accessibility criteria by our excellent team of interns. The results were encouraging: 87.6% of documents reviewed were named appropriately (i.e. so that users can anticipate …
The promise of video
I’ll be speaking at Kaltura Connect Education Track 2023 – EMEA | Kaltura 28th November, London I will speak about ‘The Promise of Video’ What do we expect from our media platforms? What do our students and users expect? How can we ensure that the promise of a generation of video is realised? During academic …
The promise of video
I’ll be speaking at Kaltura Connect Education Track 2023 – EMEA | Kaltura 28th November, London I will speak about ‘The Promise of Video’ What do we expect from our media platforms? What do our students and users expect? How can we ensure that the promise of a generation of video is realised? During academic …
to see ourselves as others see us
Does everyone at the University experience our services and the workplace in similar ways? (guest post by Lilinaz Rouhani, Data and Equality Officer) “When I first started in this role, this was my guiding question. I read reports and papers, joined staff networks, and started drafting my own surveys to find an answer to this …
to see ourselves as others see us
Does everyone at the University experience our services and the workplace in similar ways? (guest post by Lilinaz Rouhani, Data and Equality Officer) “When I first started in this role, this was my guiding question. I read reports and papers, joined staff networks, and started drafting my own surveys to find an answer to this …
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …
AI and ethics, welcoming our robot colleagues
I am delighted that this summer we have 2 student interns working in LTW to help us understand how Chat GPT and Open AIs can help us in our work. We have long welcomed our robot colleagues. We already use AI in our transcriptions and captioning services to add speech to text versions for students, …
discussing the work at Leeds ( way back)
I was in Leeds again this week. It’s always nice to visit and I do get a wee bit nostalgic for places and times passed. I worked at Leeds 2001-8. One of the things we did back then was to develop institutional services for blogging, podcasting and wiki-ing. I called it ‘LeedsFeeds’. We also had …
on your marks
According to some recent on- the-ground research this is the list of tools being used by schools at University of Edinburgh for summative assessment and marking (below) Some Schools have tried to standardise their assessment practices as much as possible, making things more consistent for students, markers and teaching office staff. In these Schools, the …
on your marks
According to some recent on- the-ground research this is the list of tools being used by schools at University of Edinburgh for summative assessment and marking (below) Some Schools have tried to standardise their assessment practices as much as possible, making things more consistent for students, markers and teaching office staff. In these Schools, the …