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Smarter study – 5 essential apps for students

It’s the start of a new academic year and, to help new and returning students make the best possible start to the new term, the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team have compiled a list of five of the top apps to

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ALT-C: The ‘coming of age’ of learning technology #altc

  Anne Hole, a member of the Sussex TEL team, was one of over 400 delegates at the Association for Learning Technology’s ‘Riding Giants’ conference this week. This is her report. This was a huge conference so this post is

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Flipping beautiful – news and digital curation on your mobile devices

For this app review we are looking at Flipboard; a news and reading app that can also be used for curating online content. Unlike many apps which moved from desktop computers or the web to mobile devices, Flipboard was made

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Language Tutors show and TEL

  The modern language tutors in the Sussex Centre for Language Studies are great at exploring opportunities to use technology to enhance their students’ learning – and sharing what they are doing with each other. Anne Hole, the liaison learning

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Remember everything with Evernote

  This week we want to introduce you to a great organisation and productivity tool called Evernote. Evernote is basically a note-making app, but it does much more than that. With tagging, reminders, sharing and a powerful search capability, it

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Digital devices take reading back to its social roots

  When I imagine my ideal setting for reading a good book, I think of a comfy chair, a cup of coffee and some soft background music. Your perfect reading situation might be different, but it is likely that what

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Bring Your Own Devices for Learning (BYOD4L)

Members of the Technology Enhanced Learning team will be helping to facilitate BYOD4L or ‘Bring Your Own Devices for Learning’, an open online learning event starting on Monday, July 14th and we would like to invite students and teaching staff

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Changing the learning landscape

Digital Literacy in the disciplines One of the reasons for increasing the use of technology in Higher Education is to develop students’ digital literacy. Anne Hole, a member of the Sussex Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team, recently attended a Higher

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