Create an Ebook!

Posted on by Sally Burr
A book being held in the air as an example of a good book.

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Would you like to create your own Ebook? In this post we look at the benefits of Ebooks and share some tips on how to create your own.

Why create an Ebook for teaching and learning?

Ebooks offer advantages over paper books in that they can offer a more dynamic experience to the reader through the ability to include hyperlinks and multimedia within the text. They can be updated easily too, are free to publish and can be easily shared and distributed. A digital format can be an engaging and mobile way to present new material to students. 

The TEL team created ‘Best blog posts of 2015, Teaching and Learning Edition’. To date, the EPUB version alone has been downloaded 137 times.  Read more ›

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Get creative! Smartphones for learning

Posted on by Anne Hole
Make and create with your mobile! Don't just consume content, create content for learning with your Smartphone

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Mobile devices are often seen as being for consumption of content, rather than creation.

This post offers suggestions for using students’ smartphones as part of a creative learning process that develops digital capabilities alongside subject knowledge and understanding. 
Much of the focus on ‘mobile learning’ has been on what can be achieved when students are given iPads, but it is more likely that students will be carrying smartphones with them that can be used in powerful ways to enhance learning through content creation.  Read more ›

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TEL Innovation Scheme – The Winners!

Posted on by Nicholas Botfield

Each year, Sussex TEL makes available grants of up to £1000 to support the development of innovative practices in the use of technology within teaching and learning.

The TEL Innovation Scheme gives Sussex teaching staff the opportunity to develop or experiment with new tools, resources or teaching approaches with the potential to inform practice in their School or disciplinary area. This year, we received many great proposals with a wide-variety of innovative ideas for practice being put forward and, whilst we would have liked to have funded them all, the selection process forced us to whittle the applications down to the following four winners:  Read more ›

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A-Z of apps, reloaded! Piktochart, Plickers and Trello

Posted on by Sally Burr
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TEL’s A – Z of apps updated. flickr photo by mag3737 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license.

We first launched our A-Z of Apps in 2014 and it has gone on to become one of the most visited pages on our website. In this – our 100th post! – our colleague Summer Dean will introduce you to a selection of new apps that are included in our updated TEL A-Z of apps. 

Over to you, Summer…..

Piktochart

(Free with option to buy premium templates)

Infographics are an easy way to make a variety of data and information sets more visually appealing and engaging for your audience, making information easier to digest.  Read more ›

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Finding the best tech at #Bett2016

Posted on by Nicole Ingerson
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Bett countryside

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 a busy day. Our game plan was to try and get round as many of the stalls as possible to scout for new and exciting possibilities.

After powering up with large coffees we hit the floor of the Excel Exhibition Centre. It was to be 6 hours until we would next see natural day light.  Read more ›

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Scholarship ‘swimming in a sea of the digital’

Posted on by David Walker
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In a world so infused with digital technologies how must our approaches to scholarship evolve to extend reach and impact?  What do you need to do beyond publication to ensure your audience listen and your publications are read?  How do we drive engagement with educational research, in particular research in technology enhanced learning (TEL)?  These questions formed an undercurrent of the recent Pedagogic Research Conference at the University of Liverpool where issues around digital scholarship formed a central theme.  Read more ›

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Learning analytics, social scholarship and flipping assessment

Posted on by Kitty Horne

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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 Learning Technology),
  • Margaret Adamson (Head of Learning Technology & IT Skills Development at the University of St Andrews),
  • Denise Turner (Lecturer in Social Work and Social Care at the University of Sussex),
  • Tansy Jessop (Head of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester). 

Read more ›

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Free Ebook: TEL’s greatest ‘hits’ 2015

Posted on by Sally Burr
Download PDF or EPUB copy to keep!

Download a PDF or EPUB copy to keep

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 just in May, 2014, this year has seen achievements such as:

We hope you find this a valuable resource and that it persuades you to subscribe to our blog (top right-hand side) to receive weekly posts as soon as they are published.

Thank you to everyone at Sussex and beyond who have supported Technology Enhanced Learning in the last year. We look forward to innovating with you in 2016.

You can download the Ebook as a PDF or EPUB.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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