Seville November 16th -18th 2015 By Neal Sumner I was pleased to return after two years to the ICERI conference held in November in Seville to present a follow-up paper entitled ‘Moving forward with a…
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ICERI Conference report
ICERI (International Conference on Education Research and Innovation.) Seville November 19th and 20th 2013 As part of the dissemination activity for our learning development project funded by the LDC the three researchers on the project,…
Talking MOOCs
Recently interest in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has moved from the learning technology community into the popular press. Some of the coverage has been almost apocalyptic in tone. http://cogdogblog.com/2012/07/17/mooc-hysertia/ This post, the first of…
A Successful Student Experience: Implications for Academic Performance.
This event was organised by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Tuesday 8th May Queen Mary’s University of London Judging Teaching Excellence – A Student Achievements Awards perspective. The day started with a presentation from…
Digital Researchers Workshop
Inspired by the recent Digital Researchers event which I blogged about in this previous post, I was keen to provide a workshop to try out some of the social media tools and ideas which I…
Higher Education Academy Seminar Series
Innovation in Assessment: the student learning experience 23.02.2012 This is a report on an HEA-sponsored workshop and seminar that showcased innovation in assessment practice at University College London. Details of the presentations are available on…
LDC Showcase debate 1st February 2012
An innovation to this year’s Learning Development Centre Showcase event was to open with a debate. The suggestion to hold a debate came from the Associate Deans for Education and the theme was chosen to…
Digital Researcher 2012
Digital Researcher 2012. British Library 20.02.2012. Having been placed on the waiting list for this event I was pleased to discover three days beforehand that I had managed to squeeze in as one of the…
Digital Literacies JISC Workshop. Bristol 6th October 2011.
JISC Design Studio This was one of a series of JISC workshops rolled out across the UK this year ‘to support the development and implementation of institutional approaches to digital literacies across the entire workforce…
National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)
The Analysis of Qualitative Data. I attended this two-day workshop to extend and refine my skills in qualitative data analysis (QDA). Facilitated by three experienced NatCen researchers in the area of applied social research, the…