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Dear Users,
We are discontinuing the E-Portfolio tool as of the 18th of March.
There are two reasons for this decision:

Blackboard, the software vendor, is no longer developing this tool. It is unlikely that anything created inside your e-portfolio will be transferable to any future system.
Secondly, the software has not seen the scale of use across [...]

As I’m about to leave for the day, I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen this evening.
What am I talking about? Well obviously the much talked about announcement sometime today (5pm on the west coast of the USA?) of the eagerly awaited Apple tablet computer of course…what else? I’m not really [...]

TechDis (the accessibility service run by JISC) recenty published a leaflet called ‘Informing Policy, Improving Practice: making the student experience more inclusive through technology’ (link).
Not a snappy title, but a useful publication for anyone interested in accessibility and e-learning. It’s an overview of some of the resources and services offered by TechDis, including links to [...]

Perhaps this post is a bit of self-indulgence as its link to e-learning might seem a little convoluted and self-involved but I noticed that Peter Landin’s Obituary has been published in the Guardian today. Having been a student in the Department of Computer Science at what was then Queen Mary and Westfield College in [...]

The registration process for the JISC Innovating e-Learning online conference has just been opened. As its title suggests, this is a fully online experience and therefore the cost for registration is a mere £50. Unfortunately, although the themes for the conference have been announced there is currently no further detail about the sessions [...]