A new and improved online reading service is in town! Its called Reading Lists Online (RLO) developed by a company called Talis Aspire. The fundamental aspect of the tool is that it is online; meaning that students can access their module/ course reading lists anytime from anywhere. What is Reading Lists Online? RLO provides students…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Reading Lists Online
Group work is one of the educational strategies, that if employed well, can promote collaboration and participation amongst students. Group work can also nurture a more active and deeper learning experience and can provide lecturers with valuable insights into the way students understand particular topics and or concepts. In addition to exposing students to different…Continue Reading Moodle 2: A guide to enabling groupwork
Each year the Learning Development Centre (LDC) produce a video to introduce students to the key features of the Online Learning Environment – Moodle. Staff from the LDC were joined by Dr Julie MacLaren, Senior Lecturer Education Development in the School of Health Sciences to film the video for the upcoming academic year. The video…Continue Reading The Making of the Moodle Induction Video
A key purpose of assessment is to provide feedback to students on their learning. Multiple Choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful tool for formative testing. The design and the embedding of feedback into MCQ items can be arguably the most important part of the exercise as well as the most time-consuming (Bull & McKenna,…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Designing and Developing Multiple Choice Assessments
Moodle offers ways in which to effectively effectively contact students and staff directly using Moodle. The notification settings allow you to configure how you would prefer to receive all communications from Moodle (this includes items such as forums posts and messages). To configure your notification settings, click My profile in the top navigation bar and…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Communication settings and Activities
Here is the University in Rhodes where the conference started. This conference is held annually and encompasses learning for all from primary to secondary school and higher education. There are a range of themes running throughout the conference from assessment and evaluation to college life and professional teacher development. Both Patrick Baughan and I attended from the…Continue Reading Twentieth International Conference on Learning July 2013
I was recently playing host for an Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) Summer Symposium held in one of our very own flexible spaces A109. The highlight of the symposium was the keynote that looked at an example of transforming the students experiences of learning using the flipped classroom model. Who’s…Continue Reading Flipping a large cohort of engineering students case study
Logging In Go to: http://moodle.city.ac.uk. Select the Login button from the top right of the page. Enter your Username (e.g. abcd123), Password and click Login. Overview The My Moodle homepage where you will find a list of the modules you are enrolled on and information related to these modules. All the current modules you are…Continue Reading Moodle 2: My Moodle features
I attended my second ICICTE (International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education) this year. The conference aims to explore the challenges and changes arising from technological innovations. The themes of this year’s conference ranged from procedures and techniques to tools for creating 21st century learning environments. Neal Sumner and I presented the findings from…Continue Reading Review of ICICTE technology innovations conference