Here at Teesside we have had a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) since 2001, using Blackboard (the term VLE is generally used now to refer to software designed to bring everything together, as opposed to the combination of web page content
I’m presenting at the Blackboard World Conference in Washington DC. The abstract for my paper is as follows: This presentation examines the quality of e-learning in our courses. Beyond a small proportion of courses which are exemplary, many courses simply
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the European First Year Experience Conference in Groningen. Diane Nutt of CLQE is Chair of the Conference Organising Committee reflecting the University’s commitment to the first year experience, which is such an
I recently went to two events hosted by Oxford University at Saïd Business School, Shock of the Old and Beyond Walls. Shock of the Old 2009 was Oxford’s 8th annual conference on educational technologies, a day packed full of interesting
The Beyond Walls 2009 conference was recently held by the University of Oxford at Saïd Business School, following on from Shock of the Old 2009, Beyond Walls focused on Institutional Podcasting. Beyond Walls 2009 consisted of 9 presentation sessions and
Andy Ramsden’s (University of Bath) introductory keynote at last weeks Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference highlighted a relatively new technology that is QR Codes. A QR (Quick Response) Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese Corporation
I use it, Stephen Fry uses it, 10 Downing Street uses it, even Barack Obama uses it, so why aren’t you? Twitter is a free service that lets users broadcast short messages to a group of people. “Tweets”, as they’re
When I first arrived at Teesside, some people had been looking at investing in clickers, but somehow they’ve never taken off. We’ve seen a few different products over the years, and had a rather frustrating discussion with one company last
The 7th Annual Blackboard Users Conference took place at the University of Durham on 14th and 15th December 2006 – the theme being “The Power of 2”, focusing on the use of Web 2.0 technologies. The E-learning Team very unselfishly
