As the longest standing (and oldest) member of the Educational Enhancement team I have written a lot of posts for this blog. On checking recently, I found that this will be my 106th. I may have missed a trick by…
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What is a Learning Technologist and how a train to Huddersfield helped me find the answer
In my last post I said I’d be exploring more on the topic of what is a Learning Technologist (LT). There has been a lot of excellent work on this of course, detailing the varied and complex roles, tasks, job…
4 Great new features in Padlet
Padlet has come a long way since it was first introduced as a teaching tool at the university with a number of updates and new features that have been added to it. In this blog post we’ll explore four recent…
AI in Teaching and Assessment: October 2023 update
Welcome to the first of, what we anticipate will become, regular (monthly-ish) updates on new developments in AI and Higher Education. As this is the first such blog post, and one which comes at the end of a summer which…
Posted in AI, Learning Technologies
Buddycheck: Get ready for a new peer evaluation tool to support group work at Sussex
Coming soon to Canvas – Buddycheck is new peer evaluation and feedback tool that can help make group work fairer, more transparent and reduce workloads for staff. It’s Learning Tech that dreams are made of! Here I explain what it…
Online teaching spaces: Exploring the digital myths
From supporting staff with their Virtual Learning Environment module sites and related teaching tools, I have seen past experiences become barriers. I aim to explore some of the myths heard over my 14 years working in FE & HE across…
Posted in Learning Technologies
Presentation tips: accessible slides and free-to-use images
Some topics are of perennial interest and given that technologies are constantly changing there is usually something new to say. Two of the most popular posts on this blog have been on using Creative Commons images (2014) and making presentations…
Tagged with: Accessibility, Presentations, Using images
Posted in Accessibility, Learning Technologies
Posted in Accessibility, Learning Technologies
Some new features in Canvas, Panopto and Padlet
The key learning technologies in use here at Sussex are regularly updated in response to customer feedback. In this post we’ve cherry-picked some of the most recent updates you may find useful. Canvas Canvas have recently introduced a feature that…
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