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27 May 2010	Q-Review and Echo360 in 2009 / 2010 What is it? Q-Review (http://www.esddelu.org.uk/tag/q-review/) is a ‘lecture capture’ service. The software underlying Q-Review is called Echo360. It will record video, audio, and the presenter’s screen (e.g. PowerPoint, notations or webpages) and combine these into a user-friendly web-based format. The system can automatically record scheduled lectures, produce learning resources [...]	Blog posts News and Events	Echo360, q-review
19 May 2010	Q-Review and podcasting your lectures at Queen Mary This is a brief reminder about the College’s lecture capture project, Q-Review. If staff would like to make use of this service in the coming year, you are advised to make that requirement known to Room Bookings when submitting your room requests now. They will make every effort to prioritize requests from those who wish [...]	How-to guidance News and Events
14 May 2010	Announcing: VLE Selection Project This is a project to select a new Virtual Learning Environment for QM. We currently use Blackboard (Campus Edition 8), which now hosts some 1300 online course areas across the College and is well used by a majority of students. We’re now launching a project to evaluate the needs of all users and recommend a [...]	News and Events VLE Selection Project VLE Service Announcements
27 April 2010	“What I wish I could do in Blackboard (but can’t)” You are invited to an open session for staff users of the VLE to give feedback about what kinds of e-learning you would like to be able to do in the VLE, but currently can’t. Wednesday 19th May 2010, Fogg Lecture Theatre, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences	News and Events VLE Selection Project VLE Service Announcements	vle
2 March 2010	Accessing Alt-J (E-Learning Journal) As part of our membership of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), we have access to the Journal ALT-J, about research in learning technology. We’ll get hard copies at the E-Learning Unit which you can browse in the E-Learning Studio, but you can also access it online. You can access the journal from www.informaworld.com. Click ‘Sign [...]	How-to guidance News and Events	research
11 February 2010	We’ve joined ALT… We’ve joined the Association for Learning Technology as an organisational member, so everyone at QM gets some benefits. ALT is the primary professional and scholarly association for learning technology in the UK (see their website here). They also run the biggest annual conference about all matters e-learning, ALT-C, which is running this September in Nottingham. [...]	Blog posts News and Events
25 January 2010	Training session: Introduction to QM’s VLE If you are just starting out with the central College virtual learning system (VLE), Blackboard, or you are wondering about what it might have to offer, you might be interested to know about our “Introduction to QM’s Virtual Learning Environment” session which is taking place this Wednesday afternoon. The session is aimed at staff who [...]	News and Events	blackboard, session, training, vle
8 January 2010	Some events, a conference, JISC funding news A number of things from the world of e-learning to draw to your attention: ALT-C, the annual major e-learning conference in the UK, will be held this year in Nottingham. The theme is “Into something rich and strange” – making sense of the sea-change”. Google and Yahoo will be among those presenting. If you are [...]	News and Events
2 January 2010	VLE Description of Service As part of a step-change in E-Learning Provision at QMUL we are expanding our range of services, hiring new team members and formalising what we already do. This document is part of the latter. The VLE has become a core college service at QMUL and it is important that we are able to describe that service, [...]	News and Events	blackboard, vle
15 December 2009	Progress on Q-Review, QMUL’s Echo360 Project QMUL’s lecture capture pilot project, called Q-Review, is approaching the halfway point in its pilot year. While we’ve had our share of hiccups and setbacks, the project is progressing well. We’ve learned a lot about best practice for the system and are looking forward to disseminating this when the project enters its production phase. So… what [...]	News and Events	Echo360, lecturecapture, q-review

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