Reviews

There are several media sharing websites that can be used to host your video recordings. Most offer a free version and the ability to embed your media onto a webpage such as a blog, or in the VLE (E.g. Blackboard). Media sharing websites offer varying features, so I have done a brief comparison of two [...]

Do you need your students to make an appointment with you? Or maybe you want to set up a meeting and need to know what the best date/time based on everyone’s availability is? Do you want to get rid of paper sign up sheets?
There are a few online options available, most of which offer a [...]

Last Wednesday I attended E-assessment: making it happen – a one day conference hosted by The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) at the University of Bradford.  It was a welcome opportunity to meet others in Higher Education who are at various stages of practice in online assessment.
The conference was very much focussed on [...]

This isn’t a completely new publication, it was published in early July this year, however it was brought to my mind again recently. Earlier this year JISC published an updated version of their "Effective Practice with e-Learning" guide which was published in 2004. The guide is now called "Effective Practice in a Digital Age". [...]

The last few years have seen an increase in both the number of us using the VLE here at Queen Mary, and the breadth of activities we’re using it for. We’ve responded to both good and bad changes in the products and now the majority of departments are making extensive use of our current [...]