Reading Time: 9 minutesWe define Learning Technology as the broad range of communication, information and related technologies that can be used to support learning, teaching and assessment. Our community is made up of people who are actively involved in understanding, managing, researching, supporting or enabling learning with the … Continue reading Breaking your back in the new low
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot too long ago, Lawrie Phipps created another one of his hilarious versions of the faux Penguin children’s books for “The Learning Technologist”. Most of it was wryly funny, painfully funny, knowingly funny or just plain funny. One image didn’t sit easy with me though: … Continue reading Life choices
Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday, as anyone who saw my demented tweeting will know, I took part in the Edinburgh Processions march. Processions celebrates 100 years of female suffrage (though 1918 only extended suffrage to women over 30 who had property). On Sunday 10th of June, women and girls … Continue reading Processing
Reading Time: 11 minutesThis is the full text of the paper that Karoline and I wrote for the QAA Enhancement Themes 2018 conference and presented on 7 June. Lecture Recording: A student co-creation case study Anne-Marie Scott, Karoline Nanfeldt. University of Edinburgh. Abstract The University of Edinburgh has … Continue reading #ETConf18: Lecture Recording: A student co-creation case study
Reading Time: 2 minutesA friend asked a few days ago if I fancied going for a drink after work sometime. Yep, but actually no, that’s not going to be something I can do. In about 3 days I won’t have any way to get home (zero tolerance drink/drive … Continue reading Rhythms
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter what feels like weeks of doing business in committees, steering groups, and more time with contracts and lawyers than I ever enjoy (GDPR – Yay!), the end of this week has taken a decided up-turn. All of that stuff is important business and how … Continue reading Buzzy and excitable
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve just finished embroidering a piece for my friend Lindy Richardson’s Processions project – a banner which will join us on the Edinburgh Procession on 10 June, to mark 100 years since the first Suffrage Act. Hopefully I’m not too late – like a bad … Continue reading Tracings (don’t look too closely)
Reading Time: 4 minutesA sunny Monday morning in Edinburgh (one of the signs of the apocalypse) comes with the good news that a proposal to run a half-day workshop at the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning has been accepted. Student-facing Learning Analytics – Principles for Design and … Continue reading Signs of the apocalypse and learner dashboards
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of our multi-year lecture recording programme we are funding a special call within the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme for small research projects. It is important that we properly evaluate such a major change to what happens in our learning and teaching environments (physical … Continue reading Research-led learning
Reading Time: 5 minutesI have great intentions to blog all the best experiences I have, but usually end up finding myself massively over-stimulated and therefore barely coherent. In the interests of not forgetting (and reflecting that I *still* haven’t finished any of my blog posts from LAK18), I’m … Continue reading Sharing a few notes on #OER18
