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Finding the best tech at #Bett2016

Several of the TEL team visited BETT 2016 last week. For the uninitiated BETT is the British Educational Training and Technology Show. With more than 600 learning technology suppliers covering 5 different education sectors we knew it was going to be

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Learning analytics, social scholarship and flipping assessment

Happy New Year to all our readers!  Last autumn saw the start of the 2015/16 Technology Enhanced Learning seminar series, featuring three engaging sessions from four great speakers: Martin Hawksey (Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer for the Association for

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Free Ebook: TEL’s greatest ‘hits’ 2015

The end of the year is upon us and we would like to thank all of our readers with a free Ebook featuring TEL’s top posts of 2015. 2015 has been a great year for the TEL blog. Despite being a relatively ‘new’ blog launched

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Can technology help to develop ‘future ready’ learners?

Last week I travelled to Birmingham for the ‘Future Ready Symposium’. The event was hosted to explore the role of technology in helping to develop the ‘future ready’ learner.  The Symposium coincided with Jisc’s publication of the ‘Technology for Employability’

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Note-making and annotating with an iPad – which apps do I need?

When academics and students start using an iPad some of the first things they want to be able to do are make notes (in lectures, at conferences or in meetings) and annotate pdf documents. There are many apps available to

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Student Reps Training Online: Behind the Brief

What lies behind a learning technology project?  What are the steps involved in taking a project from initial idea through to delivery?  In this post Pete Sparkes’ shares some insights to his role as a Learning Technologist by taking us through

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MakerSpace in Mobile Technologies Week

You may have spotted that this week is Mobile Technologies Week! We are halfway through Mobile Technologies week and today, Ant Groves, Learning and Teaching Librarian from the Library, talks about the wonderful ‘MakerClub’. Over to Ant…… The second day of

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Survey tools for learning, teaching and scholarly practice

Involving students as researchers can have huge benefits in terms of motivation, learning and the development of discipline-specific skills. There is also much to be learnt by teachers carrying out research into their own teaching. Either of these activities is

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