Nice infographic from good.is showing teachers’ responses after being asked to gague the effectivness of various forms of education materials.
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8.3.2011
Using Echo360 personal capture using Echo360 personal capture
OK, so that all sounds a bit circular, but this blog post is about one of the ways in which we are creating guidance for those thinking about using Echo360 personal capture (PCAP). One of the outputs that we hope will have a really positive impact is the short screencasts that we are asking project […]
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Making Moodle a scaleable enterprise solution
An early task after installing Moodle is to integrate as much existing data held within an institution that would be helpful in the virtual learning environment (VLE) context. Even though Sussex has had an institutional Moodle installation since 2006 there are still many possibilities for further integration. Pre-existing Sussex systems Sussex has a history of ORACLE development […]
Read this post →10.2.2011
Looking for patterns in students’ use of Echo360 screencasts
As part of the Me2U project we are evaluating student use of the short screencasts that have been created by lecturers. Some of this information will come from student questionnaires and focus groups, but we can also look at the reports that Moodle creates when students view pages where the screencasts are held. One of […]
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Maintaining sites for the students’ programme duration
At Sussex we made a decision that Moodle sites which related to a Sussex course should be maintained for the duration of the students’ degree programme. This means for any particular course we have sites for every year it is run. For example Sussex 3rd year students have Moodle sites for all the course modules […]
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Importing user profile photos into Moodle
At Sussex we encourage the use of user profile images (avatars) in our Moodle installation because it provides a more personal learning experience, encourages interaction and improves usability of the system by having more graphic representations of data. However many students and staff haven’t uploaded an avatar in Moodle. We have therefore initiated a Spring […]
Read this post →28.1.2011
First phase of Me2U coming to an end…
So, we are now already four months into the project and this blog post provides an overview of where we’ve got to…. The project aimed to recruit ten lecturers to participate in the project and we decided to enlist three participants for the first phase (October – December) – the rationale being that any teething […]
Read this post →28.10.2010
Introduction to the Me2U project – Echo360 personal capture for student learning
In August 2010, a proposal submitted by a team from the University of Sussex, UK was awarded funding as part of the Echo360 grants programme. The project, called ‘Me2U’ (on reflection, a title perhaps too close to the Chuckle Brothers catchphrase), has set out to investigate the ways in which the personal capture version of […]
Read this post →27.9.2010
Journey with a magic pen
I like using a pen and paper for note-taking and for ideas generation. Even though I’m a pretty fast touch typist, I find that making hand-written notes feels more expressive. I like being able to annotate text I’ve already written. I like the ability to make doodling/ diagramming part of the thinking process I like […]
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