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Constructively aligning criterion feedback using Turnitin

Implementing processes to support the electronic management of assessment has been a priority for many universities and colleges in recent years, with many making use of Turnitin as a means of checking the originality of submitted work and providing feedback to

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Posted in Marking and assessment, Technology Enhanced Learning

Get connected – engaging with online communities

‘Connectedness’ is the very essence of the social web.  Digital technologies have an important role in mediating connections but it is important to recognise that it is the connections that these tools facilitate that are important and not the tools themselves.

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Posted in Digital scholarship, Technology Enhanced Learning

Conference Tweeting and Storify

Twitter is a great companion for academic conferences – before, during and after the event, the micro-blogging platform can expand and deepen the experience. Building a conference community with a hashtag #  Conference organisers will usually identify a suitable hashtag

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Posted in Social media, Technology Enhanced Learning

Plickers! An easy-to-use quizzing tool

The TEL team recently demonstrated Plickers at the annual University of Sussex Teaching and Learning Conference 2016.  The theme of the conference was inclusivity. To build on this theme, we demonstrated how to use technology to encourage participation with two TEL

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Posted in Polling tools, Technology Enhanced Learning

Using forums effectively – ways to improve engagement

In a Virtual Learning Environment such as Study Direct (Moodle), forums can be a great way to share course information, build community and allow students to easily share resources and ideas. Last year our post The benefits of lurking in

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Posted in Study Direct, Technology Enhanced Learning

Exploring Openness at #OER16

This year I attended the 7th Open Educational Resources Conference. ‘OER16: Open Culture’ held on 19th-20th April 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. For the uninitiated, ‘Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are

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‘Speak’ your documents with Google Voice Typing

Today we are introducing Google Voice typing, a feature of Google documents which allows you to dictate and format your documents by voice. Voice typing is an effective free tool. It could prove useful to anyone wanting an alternative to typing.  First,

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Posted in Learning Design, Technology Enhanced Learning

Doing it digitally – presentations

Giving presentations is as much part of academics’ lives as it is their students’. Whether presenting at a conference or in an undergraduate seminar, there are digital tools to help with every step of the process. In previous posts such

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