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Durham Blackboard (and non Blackboard) Users’ Conference

Firstly let me start with offering my thanks to Durham University Learning Technologies Team for organising the event and being great hosts. Also apologies that I have a limited amount of photographs as I did not play the role of the paparazzi this year. The ones I do have, mainly of the food as I was very impressed by the catering, have already been used by Chris.

This year the theme was Location, Location, Location and they definitely have the right location to host this conference; a picturesque and beautiful city…

Location, Location, Location: A trip to the Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference 2011

This year’s conference was themed “Location, Location, Location” – a phrase that made a lot more sense to me once someone explained that it is also a reference to a popular televisual programme (m’lud). But enough of my inadequate grasp of Popular Culture – what sort of ideas does this expression encompass?

As you might have guessed, there was exploration of the idea that E-learning can overcome geographical and temporal constraints on learning – i.e. no longer having to be at a specific place (say a Lecture Theatre) at a specific time (say 9am on a Monday) in order to “learn”.

Technology Enhanced Assessment for Learning

On 8th December myself, Russell Smeaton (E-Learning Team) and Liam O’Hare (School of Science & Engineering) went along to a Higher Education Academy Seminar entitled “Technology Enhanced Assessment for Learning: Case Studies and Best Practice“, held at the University of

Questions in Blackboard – the Easy Way!

Putting tests into your module is a great way of allowing the students to test themselves as well as letting you see the progress they are making…Here we offer a relatively quick and painless solution – use Microsoft Excel.

Taking PowerPoint to the Next Level

For better or for worse, a lot of us use PowerPoint these days. This can work very well in a traditional lecture environment. We can talk around the bullet points presented on the big screen and hopefully get some interaction going from the students. However, problems arise when we remove the presentation from the medium it was intended for and place it into Blackboard for download…

Online Tools and Resources

Whilst checking out some of the SimpleK12 two-minute talks (that I’d thoroughly recommend), I found myself going through the usual steps of opening about thirty different browser windows to lots of linked sites when I stumbled across a wiki created

Top ten tips for Discussion Boards

Getting students to engage and interact with one another is not always easy when they are sitting together in a room. So how about when they are sitting at home, in front of their computers? This is, of course, one of the biggest problems we have when looking at distance learning courses. In this blog post, we’re going to take a little look at the theory behind using discussion boards and also suggest some ways to get your students using them.

Have you tried….?

Stuck for inspiration? How about being spoilt for choice instead? Here are three sets of resources you may not have heard about before. And also, in three formats that are aimed to also set you thinking. As always, if you

Games – just play or can we learn from them?

I’ve been collecting a few articles on video games and what we can learn from them for a little while, and after two comments on presentations at the Future Learningscapes conference yesterday at the University of Greenwich, In virtual worlds