Graduating from University and entering the world of work can be a tricky transition for many students. Graduate entry jobs have not grown in line with graduate supply, which could be related to the government’s “widening participation” agenda. Consequently, the graduate job market is increasingly competitive and leaving University with purely a degree and a CV alone is no longer an option…
Our next Learning and Teaching Enhancement Conference will take place on Thursday 16 March 2017 under the title of ‘My Degree, My Future’. The conference is designed to draw together staff and students to explore how graduate employability, entrepreneurship and skills can be enhanced to meet the objectives of Teesside 2020…
The Learning and Teaching Enhancement team are delighted to welcome Daniel Childs, who was recently appointed Learning and Teaching Officer. In his new role, he will support the design, development and dissemination of a broad range of learning and teaching projects…
I quite like this post on the ISTE website asking “Is technology a gimmick in your classroom?” It gives a reasonably useful set of yes/no questions to answer, and then you add up the yeses at the end to get a
Apparently electronic screens still aren’t as good at being paper as paper is. This link is from Sci Amer from last year, but there’s also a more recent article in New Sci if you can access it. In both articles some examples are
Another list of new technologies that people think might be set to revolutionise HE. This one was brought to my attention by Liz Jolly (thanks Liz). http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/twelve-technologies-set-to-revolutionise-higher-education-in-australiaand-beyond/2013566.article
Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference, Dublin 2014 I recently attended the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference, held at The University College of Dublin, in Ireland. The Conference took part over 4 days and consisted of a number of keynotes,
“Social Referrals” make up almost half of our traffic and up to a third of the social referrals are from Facebook, Rich Glover writes about Social Graph integration…
Hello, my name is Ross Parker and I am one of three new Web Developers in the Department for Learning Development. One of the main areas that I will be responsible for is supporting the development of distance learning courses
Oppia is Google’s new tool for creating “explorations”. By “exploration” the creators mean a personalised and tracked journey through some learning materials. It seems that Google believe that, although a growing amount of educational content is now delivered via video
