Learning & Teaching Forum (Dec 2013) Learning Technology Assisants Report

1. David Hopkins
david.hopkins@le.ac.uk
Stephen Walker
sw344@le.ac.uk
0116 252 3737
@hopkinsdavid
0116 252 5738
@StephenWalker
www.le.ac.uk
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2. Support for:
• Experienced / Inexperienced
• Academic
• Administrative
• Research
• Management
• Students: campus / DL
• Blended learning
• Etc.
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3. Blackboard for:
• Communication
• Learning Materials
• Interaction
• Reflection
• Collaboration
• Online Assessments
• Online Marking
• Video
• Social Networks …
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4. Learning Technologists for:
• Projects
• Training & Workshops
• Technical Expertise
• Pedagogy
• Hot Desk
• One-to-one support
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5. Criminology
•
Development of online marking and
supporting resources
Economics
•
A number of new staff inductions via Hot
Desk appointments
Education
•
•
New TESOL courses.
Support reconfiguration of Blackboard
courses.
Lifelong Learning
•
Initial discussions about mobile learning –
raised wider college discussion about
mobile learning.
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6. Management
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•
Creation of group work resource –
pedagogy and tools for online distance
collaboration
Facilitating online discussion course
Media and Communication
•
•
Transfer of DL courses from paper based
to online
Creation of module assessment surveys
Politics and International Relations
•
•
Online assessment
Considering reconfiguration of Blackboard
courses
Sociology
•
Enhancement of course sites
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7. Hot Desk
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Monthly ‘residence’ for one day in each
college department
Bookable online, or as a drop-in
Other work
•
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www.le.ac.uk
Lecture Capture Pilot Project
Investigating Mobile Learning
LTA Blog:
http://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/telsocsci/
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